Is this a Ochlerotatus infirmatus

[alfredo]

The white leg tips are not part of the description, everything else fits.

[Solly Mack]

1. Bug! Sucky little bug!

The bug could have lighted on fresh paint or maybe a flower that colored its back legs. The coloring is uneven, suggesting he landed in it, slipped a little, and took off again...maybe.

I think it looks like Ochlerotatus infirmatus.

Is there a white patch on the scutum?

[alfredo]

2. There's a bit near the back, but that is the only view I got.

Look at the triangle white blotches on the abdomen. That's a hit on the O I

It looks blue in the image.

[Solly Mack]

3. I think you're right about it being OI.

Some mosquitoes have the funny shaped V pattern but the OI does not and your bug doesn't either.

[alfredo]

4. I should have asked it at the time.

[Solly Mack]

5. It helps to ask. Bugs can be very accommodating.

I've asked spiders to leave my house and they have been kind enough to go. Sure, they needed my help - but that's what friends do.

[alfredo]

6. I like the glass and postcard method.

[Solly Mack]

7. I use one of those little fish scoops. Sometimes the glass and paper method.

Usually the geckos keep the insect/spider population down in the house. It's one of the wonderful things about having dozens of geckos in and around the house - pest control.

[alfredo]

8. That's one thing we lack.

[Solly Mack]

9. But you have other things.

[alfredo]

10. Fly shatters.

[Solly Mack]

11. Always helpful.

[alfredo]

14. Damn spell check. Swatters, not shatters.

[Solly Mack]

15. I know.

But the mental image of the other was funny.

[alfredo]

16. I don't want think about spider shit.

[Solly Mack]

17. Let's not then.

[alfredo]

18. George Lakoff was right.

One of his books was "Don't Think of an Elephant."

Now you are doomed to ponder the gifts left by Charlotte.

[Solly Mack]

19. Now I'm thinking of Charlotte, her web, her babies...

and bacon.

[alfredo]

20. Oh no!

Bacon crumbled over vanilla ice cream, with a splash of rum.

[Solly Mack]

21. I'll pass.

[alfredo]

22. We all do eventually.

[Solly Mack]

23. Aren't you the little morbid bunny today.

[alfredo]

24. My AC went out again. It's been out since Friday. They fix it, and it goes south in a couple minutes

[Solly Mack]

25. I'm sorry.

I hope they aren't charging you for their inability to get it right.

[alfredo]

26. Very reasonable.

[Solly Mack]

27. That's good.

[alfredo]

28. Cooler weather tomorrow.

[Solly Mack]

29. Lucky! I keep hoping it'll rain to cool things down.

[alfredo]

30. It's going to be 88 and 89, but clear. Lower humidity a plus.

[Solly Mack]

31. High 90's here.

The ground is already baked and cracking.

[alfredo]

32. We've been having near record rains all year.

[Solly Mack]

33. I couldn't wait for the rain to stop...now I want it back.

[Blue_In_AK]

12. Sure, whatever you say.

[alfredo]

13. I guess you didn't come here for an argument.