Originally Posted by Grandma Mary
Looks to me like what my students called a "stink bug". (That's because they smell when you step on them.) When I was little they were called box-elder bugs. I don't think they do anything, but they can be pesty.
that's not a stink bug....sting bugs are metally brown color and they are pretty stationary (or lazy)....they don't fly around...just park someplace and wait for you to kill them and stink up the area....awful
don't know what that bug is but I think I have seen them...did you try Deet?