Stink Bugs

[JohnT]

Ok, so for those of in the north east, we are getting overrun by these nasty bugs (stink bugs). They are just comming out of the wood work! I have no idea just how they keep getting into the house, but they sure keep showing up.

Stink bugs are these ugly beatle like insects that emit a nastly smell when threatened. The best way to get rid of them is by sucking them up in a vacume.

I did not know why they are so bad at my house, but not as bad as some of my neighbors, but now know why. I read in this MSN article that stink bugs are attracted to fermenting fruit. This year it is a real concern of most New Jersey and New York wineries. If so much as one of these buggers gets through your fermentation trap, a large batch of wine can be utterly ruined.

Anybody know of a ant other good ways to get rid of these evil creatures?

 

[djrockinsteve]

There was an article on the news weeks ago about them. They don't like one kind of candle. Burning these will keep them away. I can't recall if it was bayberry or not. If you kill one more will come.

A friend of my step daugh. attic has thousands of them. I agree, just like the fruit flies, fire up the vacuume.

I'll try to find out ? candle scent.

 

[djrockinsteve]

http://www.bugspray.com/article/stinkbug.html

There's a link for some info. Apparently they do bite and it hurts like a MF. Dawn dishwashing liquid will kill them but they will release their nasty scent as they die. One person mentioned citronella candles but I know that wasn't it.

 

[Runningwolf]

In the years past we got those dreaded lady bugs but not so much this year. The stink bugs dd not hit either but I hear they are about 100-200 miles south of hear. With the cold snaps and winter around the corner I think we are safe this year.

 

[djrockinsteve]

Stink bugs like warmth and are attracted by lights. Turn up the AC and drive 'em out. Now is there a recipe for stink bug wine. You know somebody gotta ask.

 

[ffemt128]

Can't stand the annoying little things. Either catch them and give them a run down to ALCOSAN or catch them in a paper towel and sacrifice them on the charcoal grill. There is absolutely no purpose to those nasty little animals.

 

[JohnT]

The reason I brought this up:

Watching TV in bed last night. One of those little suckers flew into the TV, bounced off and crashed to the floor. It then proceeded to "Skunk" the room. I ended up smelling it all night.

 

[djrockinsteve]

It then proceeded to "Skunk" the room. I ended up smelling it all night.

Seriously Honey, it wasn't me. It was one of those stink bugs!

 

[JasonH]

These things are all over the house. I've got 10 gallons of fermenting apple cider and 200 lbs of fermenting cabbage in the basement and I've already caught a few getting dangerously close to it all. I can't even get the dogs to eat these things they just keep spitting them back out and then I have to smell their crap!

 

[Julie]

These things are all over the house. I've got 10 gallons of fermenting apple cider and 200 lbs of fermenting cabbage in the basement and I've already caught a few getting dangerously close to it all. I can't even get the dogs to eat these things they just keep spitting them back out and then I have to smell their crap!

Jason, are you making sauerkraut?

 

[JasonH]

Jason, are you making sauerkraut?

Yup. We make it every year as sort of a family tradition.

 

[Julie]

Yup. We make it every year as sort of a family tradition.

Thought so, we use to do that as well.

 

[djrockinsteve]

The stink bugs are back. Over the winter we would find an occasional stinker and flush 'em away. Today I looked up at my dining room window and saw one climbing up the glass.

I know it was because my wife brought a few plants in from outside for the winter.

 

[grapeman]

There is a new nastier harder to kill stinkbug on the scene. It is called the Brown Marmorated Stinkbug.

Here is a link describing more.
http://hudsonvf.cce.cornell.edu/scouting%20reports/BMSB%20Project/leskey%20bmstinkbug%202-15-2011/leskey%20bmstinkbug%202-15-2011.html

 

[xanxer82]

The brown bugs is already here in the mid Atlantic. Best way to get rid of the is to flush them in the toilet. Make sure all screens are free of holes and your house is sealed up. Even then they may find a way in.
According to the extension center, they are researching a wasp that is native to Asia and is a natural enemy of the stinkbug.

 

[Flem]

That's the kind we have here. I have killed literally thousands of them over the last couple of years. Each year they get worse. I still, occasionally find one in the house.

 

[Daisy317]

There was an article on the news weeks ago about them. They don't like one kind of candle. Burning these will keep them away. I can't recall if it was bayberry or not. If you kill one more will come.

A friend of my step daugh. attic has thousands of them. I agree, just like the fruit flies, fire up the vacuume.

I'll try to find out ? candle scent.

Is that because of the scent they leave off? I hope not... I just found a few in the room my furnace and hot water tank are in...

 

[Flem]

Is that because of the scent they leave off? I hope not... I just found a few in the room my furnace and hot water tank are in...

It is because of the scent they leave. The ones you're finding now are left over from last fall. The next big infestation will occur next fall.

 

[djrockinsteve]

Everytime it warms up a bit I find one that is crawling up my window. Throw them out in the cold or flush them. They are persistant but I can be just as.

Don't squash them or smack them against the window. Just toss 'em to the sewer. There they can grow huge from all the fertilizer and sciFi can make a movie about them.

 

[Redtrk]

I haven't seen a stink bug in years. Luckily I don't miss them.