# Fucking Asian Beetles!!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 21, 2003, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-asian-beetles/208612 "2003-10-21T00:21:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-asian-beetles/208612/41 "2003-10-21T21:00:20Z")
Jesus Christ. **Thurgood,** if you’re serious, you’re a moron and we’ll all thank you to knock it off. If you’re NOT serious, same deal. **Marley** – Gee, why didn’t we think to close the windows? :rolleyes: Our doors and windows are almost never open. They can get in through any infinitesimal crack. It’s nearly impossible to seal them out of a house. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-asian-beetles/208612/42 "2003-10-21T21:00:27Z")
Um…I could be mistaken\*, but I believe you were the first person to hijack this thread, Thurgood. stpauler has just taken the opportunity to display your habit of doing the exact same thing in other threads, revealing that you had a much more sinister intention with your first post (an intention that had absolutely nothing to do with asian beetles in Wisconsin). \*But I’m not. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-asian-beetles/208612/43 "2003-10-21T21:06:28Z")
**Thurgood** , your first comment was hilarious. You should have left it at that. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-asian-beetles/208612/44 "2003-10-21T22:56:06Z")
A thread called “Fucking Asian People!!!” could’ve been about several things, all of them VERY different from each other and this thread. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-asian-beetles/208612/45 "2003-10-22T00:03:30Z")
I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-asian-beetles/208612/46 "2003-10-22T07:46:03Z")
I don’t like Asian lady beetles. I don’t like trolls, either. At least I can DO something about the trolls. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-asian-beetles/208612/47 "2003-10-22T10:22:27Z")
Makes me wonder if someone can invent some kind of Internet Pesticide… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![i\_like\_bacon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@i\_like\_bacon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/i_like_bacon)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-asian-beetles/208612/48 "2003-10-22T10:59:33Z")
i don’t think they bite really, more like they have this acid that burns. it must be a midwest problem, (that is where the soybeans are i suppose :P). does anybody have those teeny little black bugs? i don’t know what they are and you don’t see them unless they happen to land on your white shirt. those suckers are nasty too. grrrrrr stupid bugs. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-asian-beetles/208612/49 "2003-10-22T11:42:01Z")
> [@](#): > > does anybody have those teeny little black bugs? I can think of two kinds of tiny black bugs, gnats and no-see-ums. I can’t tell you what the difference is…both of them bite, both are annoying. ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-asian-beetles/208612/50 "2003-10-22T23:38:17Z")
I am happy to report that because the over night temp has hovered between 33[sup]o[/sup]-37[sup]o[/sup] the past few nights, the little buggers have moved south from central Minnesota, looking for warmer temps. I advised them that it is a few degrees warmer around the Twin Cities area. They may even find a place where there is a fire to warm their little cockels. They should be safe there, as long as they wear the little “I am not spider” and “I love dogs” t-shirts I gave them. I hope they find their way to this sanctuary. ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-asian-beetles/208612/51 "2003-10-22T23:50:14Z")
A co-worker and I got into an arugment with a third co-worker today (and were later joined by a fourth co-worker) because co-worker No. 3 refused to believe that _H. axyridis_ (that’s the nasty, smelly, biting lady bug) is any different from the regular, normal, sweet-tempered lady bug. _H. axyridis_ is not only spreading hate and discontent in our homes, it’s also leading to near-blows in the work place! **DOWN WITH _H. AXYRIDIS_!!!** Now. If someone can please give me the scientific name of the regular, normal, sweet-tempered lady bug so I can prove Mr. It’s-The-Same-Goddamned-Bug!! wrong I’d be greatly appreciative. ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-asian-beetles/208612/52 "2003-10-23T04:41:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by chique \* > \*\*A co-worker and I got into an arugment with a third co-worker today (and were later joined by a fourth co-worker) because co-worker No. 3 refused to believe that _H. axyridis_ (that’s the nasty, smelly, biting lady bug) is any different from the regular, normal, sweet-tempered lady bug. _H. axyridis_ is not only spreading hate and discontent in our homes, it’s also leading to near-blows in the work place! > > **DOWN WITH _H. AXYRIDIS_!!!** > > Now. If someone can please give me the scientific name of the regular, normal, sweet-tempered lady bug so I can prove Mr. It’s-The-Same-Goddamned-Bug!! wrong I’d be greatly appreciative. \*\* It looks like there are a lot of kinds of ladybugs: [COCCINELLIDAE – THE LADY BEETLES](http://www.uoguelph.ca/~samarsha/lady-beetles.htm) ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-asian-beetles/208612/53 "2003-10-23T05:02:11Z")
Oooh. Some of those in **stpauler** ’s link are PRETTY (considering they’re still bugs, and I hate bugs.) I wish we had more of the pretty red ones and a whole lot fewer of the nasty imports. ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-asian-beetles/208612/54 "2003-10-23T05:59:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by stpauler \* > \*\*It looks like there are a lot of kinds of ladybugs: > [COCCINELLIDAE – THE LADY BEETLES](http://www.uoguelph.ca/~samarsha/lady-beetles.htm) \*\* Perfect. 🙂 (Where’s that evil grin smiley when I need it?) ---
**Author:** ![i\_like\_bacon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@i\_like\_bacon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/i_like_bacon)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-asian-beetles/208612/55 "2003-10-23T10:57:24Z")
oh drat you imthjckaz, you sent them south? thanks a lot we had enuff of our own. i am going to be in the st cloud area in a week or two, think im capture a few hundred thousand and transport them in industrial sized mayonaise jars for a trip up north! 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-asian-beetles/208612.md?page=2)