Alias: Western conifer seed bug. This little bug is often confused for elm seed bugs or even box elder bugs. It is in the same “bug” family and is lumped in with other leaf-footed bugs, which is to ...

Over the past several years, the invasive brown marmorated stink bug has found hospitable conditions in our houses, which are appealingly warm during Western Washington’s cold, wet winters. They’re a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... My house is being invaded. It happens to some extent in fall of most years, but this is the most intense we have experienced, and on the first day of ...

Oct. 27—This story was originally published in October 2020. As far as invasive insect species go, the western conifer seed bug is among the more benign. They don't bite or sting people, nor do they ...

Eww, that smell. There is only one bug that makes that unique and pungent piney smell. Now appearing in homes and offices throughout Montana, the western conifer seed bug (Leptoglossus occidentalis) ...

I have received a number of calls lately about swarms of annoying insects congregating on area houses. They have been called a variety of names, from pine sawyers and box elder bugs to stink bugs but ...

The western conifer seed bug, Leptoglossus occidentalis, is an invasive sap-sucking hemipteran that has rapidly colonised coniferous forests in Europe, Asia and the Mediterranean. Both adults and ...

My house is being invaded. It happens to some extent in fall of most years, but this is the most intense we have experienced, and on the first day of February we are still heaving cadavers and actives ...

I’ve heard some reports that stink bugs are particularly bad inside houses in the Seacoast area this year. I, personally, have not had many in my house. I think I’ve found a handful over the past few ...