insects during the winter

[brandybugg4180]

I have noticed alot of new and interesting looking insects attempting to enter or actually inside my house ...is this a weather related thing it is muggy here and hot im in south carolina

[O Town]

That is odd, I never heard of such behaviors in bugs. But I would think once it started to become brisk outside that some may want to go inside where it is warmer. I know the coakroaches here like to come in when it rains alot. Also have found tree frogs and lizards come up my pipes and into my bathroom. I would interested to hear other peoples answer to your question, and if there is such a behavior.

[Climategirl]

Bugs here and others are mostly the same each year, plenty of ants in the summer, wasnt too many this year, probably in someone elses household Wasps are getting a bit nasty as its the time of year, quite a few this year too.
But ive noticed a lot of tiny spiders, everywhere you look theres one. Not too many butterflis this year, but we didnt have a hot summer this year, but this is England! We dont have that many insects in the winter.

[Persepone]

Well, we have all sorts of stuff here that tries to come in out of the cold...

The winter kills things like mosquitoes, flies, etc. Spiders find their way indoors and we seem to have horrific amounts of them not matter what we do. So there must be stuff that we don't notice that they are eating. That's a scary thought...

We have wooly worms--the kind you use for weather predictions--and they do manage to find shelter in garage, etc.

We also find lizards, etc. sneak in, as do mice, etc.

And there is a large black snake who manages to hide in the basement every year. This year I will probably put flour on the floor to find him because otherwise I'm not aware of his presence until spring when he comes out of hiding and suns himself in the tracks of my sliding door... Every year I'm sure he is gone, but then he reappears. On the other hand, he helps keep down the mouse population, so perhaps I should not complain...

So to answer your question, there probably are a whole bunch of types of insects, as well as other "critters" who come in from the cold but I suspect that most of us don't see them because we don't go looking for them because if we do see them, then we have to "do something" about them and I, for one, would rather not know about them at all!

[O Town]

You guys have lizards up there? Hummm, I thought that was a southern thing. When I worked at a Disney water park years ago the tourists would go nutty over the lizards, trying to catch them to take them home. And even in Georgia where my best friend moved she said that there isn't any lizards there. Or maybe she just didn't see them, here they are everywhere all the time. Millions of them. Just curious. Thanks.

As a matter of fact here is one of my daughters with a pretty big one attached to her ear. I could barley get that one off that day.

[weathermom]

Lizard wise we had a 5 lined skink this summer, out in the front yard. Otherwise it is mostly newts and salamanders here, and snakes of course. Had a neighbor bitten by a copperhead last year.

I remember on a trip to Italy, I would be sitting in the park reading and these little green lizards would come out and peek at me. If I moved they would scoot. They were very cute!

Inside? The "squeaky toys," as we call them, come in for the cats to play with. Thankfully the ants go away!