What bugs have entered your home so far this summer?

[CookieCrumbles23]

I’m in my front room and was feeling a little hot so opened my back door (fly net covering but little gap at the bottom). Suddenly heard a very loud buzzing in my ear and a black flying bug darting around the room. I screamed like I was being bloody murdered (my poor neighbours) and my Husband came running in. It was a lovely, quite small, shield-bug 🪲. It’s now safely back outside and my back door is shut! What little guests have you had so far this summer?

p.s. I know I’m a bloody wuss 🤣

Ive rescued several honey bees, quite early on in spring.
At the moment, it's huge moths that my two young cats are bringing in very gently! Every night is waiting for the squeak of "I've brought you something" followed by the trotting into the kitchen to release them, followed by me trotting along behind to rescue them! A nightly occurrence at the moment! How they don't damage them is beyond me!
Oh had a weird long thin, orange and black flying thing not long back. I did look it up at the time, it was part of the wasp family, but with no sting! Very strange looking!

Mostly about a bazillion (house?) spiders. You know the ones with a tiny body and long spindly legs. I usually use a plastic pot and a piece of card to catch them but I'm just getting bored of it now. I would never kill them but could really do without them everywhere in my home!! Any suggestion gratefully received!

I do use the peppermint spray, although I always see them shortly after 🤣 I think it bloody attracts them. Maybe look at some sort of spray though.

I don’t mind spiders in their little corners but when they just run across the floor in the evening, I jump out of my skin lol

A locust, who refused to allow me to release her back in my garden; she was holding onto the glass I used for her rescue with all her might.

And many, many flies…who proceeded to make maggots in my food caddy, maggots who then fell on the floor when I took the food caddy out and started crawling under my washing machine, kitchen units etc, despite being sprayed with vinegar and bleach! I expect mutant flies to come out every day now

Well done you for saving so many bees! 🐝

Your cats sound very gentle 😍. I’m not a fan of moths but I’d happily walk through a butterfly conservatory lol.

Oh wow, that wasp thing sounds terrifying, I’ve never heard anything like that before. Hope you’ve not had to chase out any more moths this evening.

Oh my god! I’m praying the vinager solution worked. Hopefully you’ve got some other ‘guests’ living under your washing machine who will eat the maggots 🤣

So many moths. So many that we thought we had an infestation at one point

Several bumblebees which always seem to get stuck in my conservatory, for some reason. Plenty of spiders, including - worryingly - a false widow. A couple of huge horseflies, and an irritating number of bluebottles. I try not to kill anything if I can help it, but the false widow was smartly squashed with a magazine.
On the plus side, and deviating a little from the original question, I’ve been happy to see a lot of butterflies in the garden this year, including a few Red Admirals which I haven’t seen for many years.
And before anyone asks, I’m the designated creepy-crawly catcher/killer in this household, my husband is useless!

@CookieCrumbles23 I always save the bees! We get a lot of bumble bees in usually and they walk onto my hand and I release them at the door! My husband didn't believe me until he saw me rescue one! He thought I grabbed them gently in a tissue! No need, I've always had a bit of an affinity with bees, since being young. I wonder if it's because my name is Hebrew for bee!
One big moth tonight, another is hiding behind the lounge curtains and is too high for me to reach! x

A slug attempted entry yesterday. I reunited it with its mother.

Something large and green that landed on my shoulder.

Waiting for the indoor spider exodus.

Sticky moth traps. Highly recommend. Have caught hundreds but they are always tiny now so am thinking I'm getting them early.

Just spiders. I have those mesh squares you get from the shopping channel clipped over my windows. It's great. I have windows open all the time and never worry about anything flying in any more - I am very sensitive to insect bites and stings so this has massively improved my quality of life.

Loads of grasshoppers

I'm not sure why you would scream ?

We live rurally and have the doors open most sunny days. 'Bugs' so far this summer...

Crane fly
Midge
Honey bee
Bumble bee
Hover flies
House flies
Horse flies
damsel fly
moths
One struggling queen hornet that came down the chimney in April, covered in soot, and had to be carried outside
Assorted spiders

It's a really good summer for insects, loads of pollinators around.

A few years ago we had a bat fly in under the blinds . I cleaned my bedroom very thoroughly after that one. 🙂

We’ve had an ant infestation (£30 on bait traps to clear) and carpet moths (£600 to clear 😭)

Earwigs
spiders
waterbugs
silver fish
flying ants
fireflies
gnats
flies
centipedes

soooo many! I hate it 😂

Omg the giant moths are horrific and they just sit there pretending to be dead 😱 we have tonnes of fruit flies too, I keep checking the fruit to make sure nothing is going bad. Flies, bees, cellar spiders. Yuk to the lot of them. And August is the start of house spider season. Ahhh.

I think those are cellar spiders. The house spiders are the big thick ones who run at you 😱

Can a slug be counted as a bug ? Well if yes ,I have had at least one. My windows don’t get opened as I have two house cats .so I can only assume the slug (s) have gained access into my home via the washing machine external plumbing.
it /they ( it’s hard to determine if it’s one or plural,I can’t kill them,so from the farthest point of my garden ,where I relocate them,it may find its way back to my kitchen) choses to feast on whatever cat food has been left by my cats.and then decides to have a wee snooze in the cats bowl. So I find it in the morning
lying,well just exactly as you would describe.like lazy fat slug.
and the cycle just repeats
slugs get a pass,so do slaters,even spiders and moths. But fruit flies give me the ick.and they are so difficult to get rid of .

I am awake right now as I fell something crawling near my ear. Bolted awake, grabbed it and threw it across the room. Now idea if I squished it or if it's nearby so now I am just wide awake as the birds are singing now.

a parasitic wasp which i've never seen one before.... i chucked it outside....a huge black spider which was also put outside, lots of small moths which are promptly squished but hardly any flies

Covid!

#missingthepoint.

Thank you to all who save these bugs, upsets me reading other posts where some awful people basically torture slugs and snails 😩

No weird orange wasps, this year, but we did have a weird moth, a few weeks ago.

A couple of years ago I shooed a shield bug out of my bedroom. Several weeks later, there was an army of tiny aliens crawling around DS1's room. It had laid eggs on the underside of his drawers. That was a long day of moving furniture and vacuuming!

I'm not sure why you would scream ?

Maybe if you think about it really really hard you'll work it out.