STINKBUGS!!!!!

[kimmerspixelated]

INVASION!!!!! ARGGHH!!

Why are they HERE? And how do I get rid of them in a non-toxic way???????:yoiks:

[Lyric]

1. I'm in north central West Virginia, and they're here too.

The brown marmorated stinkbug is what you're talking about, right?

There's no way to get rid of them permanently; they're an invasive species from Asia with no natural predators here, so there are no checks on their population. You could spray poison and kill a few, but they'll just keep coming back.

Our way of dealing with them has been to caulk the windows and door frames extra-tight, and to hang on to a bunch of empty 20-ounce plastic bottles that we use as sealed "traps" for them. They are VERY handy for catching the bugs without upsetting them enough to make them squirt out their "stink" fluid. Just carefully use the bottle to trap the bug inside, then quickly put the cap on and dispose of it. We've been trapping 10-15 bugs per bottle before tossing them out, but we've gotten rather good at it with practice.

I honestly don't know what we're going to do about these pests. They're seriously damaging crops and vegetation, they're impossible to swat or squash because of the smell, and there are NO animals in this hemisphere that prey on them.

:(

[HopeHoops]

2. Ignore them. If they aren't eating much of your crop, just leave them alone.

[kimmerspixelated]

4. Crops, heh! They're in me bloomin house!

No, I'd never spray toxins on em.

[HopeHoops]

8. Hell, the cats love to play with them. Besides, they don't live long in the house.

Frankly, I'm not sure how long they live outside. But the ones that aren't toyed with to death in our house don't live more than a day or two.

[madinmaryland]

9. Our cats won't go near them. They play with flies, crickets, and just about anything

else that might sneak its way into the house, but they stay away from stinkbugs.

[old mark]

3. Between them and the fleas, I am paying more attention to bugs

than ever before...

Smash them stinkers by hand with several layers of paper towels...was hands with soap after you are done.

mark

[kimmerspixelated]

5. At least fleas don't fly around and accidentally bump into you!

[old mark]

6. No one ever claimed that stinkbugs were too smart....nt

[Taverner]

7. Boric Acid is your friend

Get the chalk

[distantearlywarning]

10. We have an invasion/infestation here too!

Aggravating and stressing everyone I know. In people's houses, all over their windows, it's like a horror movie. Disgusting. I think something about our very hot, dry summer just made them go crazy with the hatching or something.

I found one on my pillow the other night. I am extremely arachnophobic and thought it was a spider and just about had an apoplexy before I realized it was one of those stupid stink bugs.

[TK421]

12. They're all over our damn screens here!! I flick them off and they land

outside...thankfully, none have gotten inside the house...they just cling to our door and window screens.

These fuckers are fucking EVERYWHERE!!

[seabeyond]

11. i ran into that one year. was like from twilight zone. took 6 hour drive south to pick up

niece. about half way ran into the stink bugs. everywhere. they ate each other too. grossest thing i ever saw. all over the hiway. tippy toe to get in restaurants. horrible getting gas.

the oddest thing i had ever seen.

[frogmarch]

13. What kind do you have?

There are quite a few different kinds of stink bugs, and not all kinds can be eradicated with the same chemicals. Other than using chemicals, I don't know of any other way to get rid of them. Professional exterminators would know of non-toxic chemicals that would work.

Stink bugs are drawn to light, so they might be attracted to your house at night if you have lights on, either inside lights or porch lights. This time of year, they like to invade homes for warmth too.

[DebJ]

14. An attack of the "C" type just began at my house in south central

Pa just today. They are everywhere! I was surprised because this happened just as the weather went back up to 90 degrees today; I would have thought they would be clamoring to get inside on a colder day.

We don't have any cats, and two years ago (last year we saw very few, don't know why) we had them all winter long, allllll winter looooong, until spring.

I wasn't aware they do crop damage. Now I consider it my duty to kill everyone that I can! And by the way, I have never smelled anything when I hit them.......bad sense of smell from smoking.......but my husband has never smelled anything, either. Our biggest problem with swatting them is that they just get stunned that way, then recover and take off. Have to really use something heavy enough to squash them....someone invent a heavy-duty swatter, please. I'll take 6, one for every room.

[frogmarch]

18. Ick! How awful. I live in

western NE, and around here what most people are complaining about this fall are millipedes. We don't have them anymore because we spray the foundation of the house, as well as inside, with Ortho Home Defense Max once a year. I think it would work on stink bugs too - including type C - since the product info states that along with millipedes, it kills beetles, spiders and lots of other pests too. It's for indoor and outdoor use and safe for pets to be around once it dries. We hate using pesticides, but when one of our granddaughters stretched out on the basement floor to watch TV and ended up with millipedes crawling in her hair, we decided that was it.

I've seen stink bugs but I've never smelled one. Glad I don't have any. They sound disgusting.

[tigereye]

15. vacuum, that's what I"m hearing..

[DebJ]

19. Except they are everywhere except on the floor.....they

generally hang around the ceiling in our house, until they eventually succumb to the lure of our pole lamps and get fried on the bulb....takes too long though.......

[tigereye]

22. a friend was asking me about em yesterday - people are really worried about

em. She said a friend in another town had em massing at the doors and windows and was taping up her windows and screens accordingly. I have only seen a few and shooed em away from the screen or caught em and put em back outside. I hope not to see a swarm... :scared:


Frying em on the lights- I haven't heard that one yet.

[TorchTheWitch]

16. This is the first year I've ever seen them, too

First time I saw one in the house I had no idea it was a stink bug or even what a stink bug was. Because of their size, whenever I found one in the house I threw it outside instead of squishing it only because I find it icky to squish bigger type bugs. A couple of them have drowned themselves in my little backyard wading pool, but other than a few I found in the house and the ones that drowned I've only seen them crawling about outside sometimes. My bug invasion has been tiny little ants in the kitchen that come and go randomly in armies and regular flies.

[MiddleFingerMom]

17. They're good in a nice fluffy omelet...

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[kimmerspixelated]

21. Your response really bugs me!

drumroll! Rimshot!!

[Flipper999]

20. I'm afraid you're going to have to eat some.

Do it in front of the others as a warning.

If that doesn't work... fire's non-toxic, right?