Yes, that's a snail on my wall!

I have brought in lizards and frogs, slugs and snails, earthworms and ant farms and aphids. It could be worse - I haven't brought in a snake yet.

My favorite thing in the Fall is carrying in Crickets! You wouldn't believe the concert in my house, as the greenhouse is attached to the house. I make sure the bedroom door stays closed, or we couldn't sleep in that racket!! It takes about 2 weeks for the Crickets to either expire on their own or I had managed to catch them.

Mine happens when I start bringing in seed harvest. One morning I woke up and there was this big ol' stink bug on my ceiling in the bedroom. I'm going **gross**!

I once unknowingly brought a grasshopper/katydid in my apartment along with wintering plants. I didn't dare to throw it out in freezing winter to die, so it accompanied me along the cold months, but when spring finally arrived, I found it dead.. it's ephemeral existence did give me memories.. I kept it's pict for memories... here ia a pic when it still alive (some how I miss it)....

I am missing him too. What a nice story. Unfortunately, I haven't been that kind to my winter guests.

No. no... Do not misunderstood me as a kind person to all things.... I didn't show any affection on any snails or slugs, as those two were responsible for my lost of precious friendship plant (pilea moon valley) given by my old-friend two years ago... Slugs is a bad bad news, even for an easy plant as Pilea mollis.
luckily I got another cutting, plus a sneer looking from an old lady like "hmmm you did not care of plant I once gave you huh...

I bring bouquets of fresh flower to the office all summer. Everyone gets flowers. What I didn't realize is, every one got a dose of my garden's aphids, too. My hoya, residing on my office window sill were loaded with aphids. Innocent by standers minding their own business.
To get my poor vines back to health, one evening I backed out of the office after spraying down the vines with a soap & water mister, before shutting the door for the weekend ! It worked, we are normal again.

My unexpected guests have included:1) a chipmunk, which had burrowed into the pot of a indoor tree,which enjoys summer outdoors.And 2) a tree frog which apparently came in with a cattleya orchid. It was too cold to put it outside when I discovered it. It survived over winter among the plants. I was able to set it free when spring came. I enjoyed the tree frog. The chipmunk was difficult to catch and release but it finally happened.

I moved an Anole in with a plant into the greenhouse. He is welcome to stay there all winter and eat bugs.

I intentionally catch the lizards and put them in the greenhouse. Every so often, they will startle me when they are backed down into a bromeliad vase. Love those guys!