The nice brown marmorated stink bug is still alive after a week and still crawling around the same place. We called it Wörner. 🤣

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_marmorated_stink_bug

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@paulfoerster "Nice"???
@VE3RWJ Yes, it didn’t bug us. 🤣
@paulfoerster A little different from the bugs we call "stink bugs" here in southern Ontario Canada. They smell like ransid almonds if they spray, and that spray apparently contains cyanide compounds.
@VE3RWJ Well, you shouldn't touch bugs like the marmorated stink bug. As it's name suggests, it stinks quite strongly.
@paulfoerster mostly, I don't want my cat to try eating one.
@paulfoerster Sometimes difficult to know what to do with these creatures. We had a cricket chirping away next to the heating furnace in the cellar. We enjoyed its chirping but, wondering whether it was unhappy there and chirping to be let out, I put it out on the terrace but left the door open in case it wanted to come back in. Minutes later sitting on the terrace I saw a bird snap it up and fly off with it. Been giving me pangs of conscience ever since.
@pacman Knowing what to do with this critter was easy in this case. It wasn’t our place. The owner knows of that bug and lets it live.
@paulfoerster If it is becoming domesticated the owner might like to have it tattooed with address and phone number so that a finder can return it should it stray.
@pacman Why not just chip it like a cat?
@paulfoerster What a perfect idea. Much simpler. Or equip it with a GPS-collar.
@pacman Why not just put it in chains?