Each fall, boxelder bugs and Asian lady beetles search for a warm winter shelter. Unfortunately, your house may be the place they pick. While you may find these red and black bugs throughout the ...

Boxelder bugs are oval shaped, about ½ inch long, black brownish in color with red stripes on their thorax (central portion of the body) and wing margins. Their bodies can also be bright red.

They appear dark brownish-black with three red stripes behind the head. Their abdomen is a bright red underneath, with reddish margins on the front of the wings. Where has the boxelder bug been found?

What they look like: This stink bug usually has a bright green body and red or black eyes. “Small black dots can be found along the sides of the abdomen,” Ramsey says, noting that the wings ...

That may be because the bugs read yellow as bright, making them want to hide from it as if it's a light. Conversely, they might see red and black as being dark, and therefore hidden and safe.

When threatened, they rise up on their front legs and arch their back, sometimes even flipping themselves over completely, to reveal the bright red-and-black coloration of their underside.

And with the infestation of the charcoal seed bug — a small black insect fringed with red — there seems to ... amassed around bright porch lights, in the crevice around windows and clinging ...

Yet they can't figure out a tiny red-and-black bug that has appeared in the museum's own gardens. The almond-shaped insect, about the size of a grain of rice, and was first seen in March 2007 on ...

As summer turns into fall, you may start noticing ladybugs inside your home, only they're not ladybugs. Ladybugs have a similar looking relative that causes ladybugs to get the blame for ...