One recent February evening saw me in my comfy womfy chair. I was using my tablet, possibly playing Sudoku, when a cute little fly flitted and fluttered in front of the screen. As I said, it was cute and little and nothing like a house fly. I haven't seen it since, not even seconds later. Where did it come from and where did it go?
This occurred in the middle of a long, frigid Canadian winter, a time during which insects are not exactly known to thrive.
I am reminded of a similar experience some years ago when a mosquito decided that a cold night in December was as good a time as any to make a house call. I was in the same chair but was much less amused that time.
I have to wonder how many critters live here with us, for the next morning, a little insect (probably a spider but I was too bleary-eyed to look closely) scurried by Lacey as I was feeding her kibble by the foot of my computer chair. Lacey regarded the creature dismissively and resumed her early morning, pre-breakfast snack.
For my part, if they are not mosquitoes or over-sized spiders, I am willing to share my space.
18 comments:
A fruit fly possibly that came home with you in the produce?
Possible, but that wouldn’t have been too recent.
Window seams can harbour creatures and sunny days can rouse them. I wonder though…
At my house (where new windows were put in about the time I moved here 6 years ago) I am gifted with winter bug hatchlings of some kind of winged ant, not too many at a time, as well as almost weekly stink bugs. The ants I kill, and because smashing a stink bug makes a stink, I gracefully escort them via tissue outside and shake 'em out to live in the cold. I think they somehow hatch from warm days in the window areas. And one year a whole bunch of flies hatched between screen and glass...so I just left them alone and didn't open that window till they were all dead. Glad they didn't find a way into the house. So your visitor may have been a larva when shaken from some vegetable that came home, and somehow hatched in the warmth of your home. They don't live long. When bananas bring fruit flies, I have learned a method of capturing them.
They can hibernate all over the place. I wouldn't be surprised if your recliner weren't a deluxe winter resort for the discerning fly community.
Hey Boud. Stop that right now. 🤓
I don't want to think about this too much. I would rather believe that all the critters are outside. Every time it gets sunny, we have issues with stinkbugs in the house, and they are yucky.
I spotted an ant walking by the south facing window this afternoon. I think he was enjoying the sun.
We have lady bugs and wasps inside 0n warm days--they come out of nowhere it seems. Ladybugs will fly toward the light and when I am cooking something on the stovetop with the hood light on, I have to be careful that they don't plunge into the food. They taste awful.
We only seem to get spiders during the winter here. We take it outdoors, using an upside-down glass and paper to capture it.
You just encountered early risers. Sleep in a little more.
Very odd.
Sounds like a soil fly. If you brought in any soil in the last four to six months soil flies will be hatching. Look up soil fly.
I came here to ask if you have house plants.
Good Morning, Debby. Yes we do but nothing recently added, I don’t think. I believe that the last purchase was a poinsettia for Christmas, probably purchased two months ago in early December
I found a happy little spider in my bathroom window the other day. Crazy. We get bugs of various sorts when we bring the wood in for the stoves and used to have a lot more when we had the wood furnace.
That wasn't a clothes moth, by any chance? We had them once when I was a teen after my parents got new carpets. The house had to be fumigated. Not fun and, whoo, did it reek after it was declared safe to return. Nah, not a moth.
Bug season is about to start up, as well!
Well, the guy who used to come to spray for those horrible lady beetles once said that our house has, "um, many points of entry". I prefer to think of it as well ventilated! So we do have visitors and like you I wonder how many over-winter with us. Those nasty stinkbugs show up during winter days when it warms up, and I was overjoyed to read that there is some predator attacking them now so maybe this scourge will end.
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