Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: Need help with identity, 0 by DivineAverage

DivineAverage wrote:
This is definitely a stink bug! Strangely enough, I happened to find and capture one in my house (above my bed) this afternoon. It's pretty large (I put it in a tupperware container that happened to have a marshmallow "Peep" in it -- that's what the stink bug is sitting on) and I took a picture (below). It looks precisely like the picture you have!

Anyhow, after some talk with a friend in etymology (I'm at Penn State), he told me that these little guys are harmless to people. They usually eat fruit, so they're mostly bad for crops. They also tend to come into houses very rarely, but when they do it will be a few of them in early spring and late fall.

It's absolutely not a bed bug, because bed bugs are nearly impossible to see that easily because they're tiny like fleas. That bad boy was probably as confused about being in your bed as you were seeing him there. If you're like me and your windows and vents (stink bug doorways, if you will) are above your bed, that's just the area they're bound to be found.

Anyhow, I hope this helps!

UPDATE :: :: The stupid bug is munching away on the "peep." is this normal?!

This message was edited Apr 4, 2008 6:23 PM