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Article: Boxelder bugs: a nuisance, but nothing more.
- Article from:
- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- March 1, 1993
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1993 Countryside Publications Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Warm weather will bring boxelder bugs out of winter hiding - to the chagrin of many homeowners in areas inhabited by the creatures. The bugs find their way inside houses through gaps and cracks in windows and doors.
"Although boxelder bugs are not harmful to humans or pets - and don't bite - they can be a real nuisance," says Mary Kay Malinoski, an entomologist with the Home and Garden Information Center of the Cooperative Extension Service, Maryland Institute for Agriculture and Natural Resources. "Usually, if you have boxelder bugs, you don't just have one or two, but huge numbers of them. And they tend to stain fabrics when they are squashed."
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