stink bugs
 

Lord help me, they have arrived. Day before yesterday I saw one. Yesterday, two. Today I opened the back door to find about 50 of the f***ers between the storm and the screen. This is just the beginning. By Christmas I will have swept up over 1K of them in my basement. If you don't know what they are, consider yourself VERY lucky!

HOW do they get in and WHY?! I have sealed every available entrance I can find and they still get in. Anyone have any tricks to keep the number minimal as we ride this invasion for the next few months?

Hate those!

Weird, I’ve seen them many times and many places over the years, but it’s never been more than a one or two over the course of a few days or a week. I have seen a place that was full of crickets, and our old house used to have lady bugs get inside the house in the spring, but even then, It was probably never more than 5-10 over the course of a day or two. I’ll count myself lucky and stink bugs stink.

It's about time for the aisian beetles (lady bug cousins) at our place, they will end up covering screen doors, and generally flying up your face when interupted. If you happen to squish one somehow, they stink badly, and the smell lingers rather like the stink bugs.

At least you don't have a toddler chewing on one.

wow..

this is an annual thing?! no thanks.

No but one of my cats likes to chew on them which results in just the same. :mad:

This is a new thing around here. They became a problem a few years ago around the same time Japanese beetles became a problem. Be thankful you don't have them if you don't. They are a royal PITA!

Bad enough that we have a dozen mosquitoes and a couple hundred knats that we have to share ......

I saw a spider web last week too. :D

2 years in a row now they've destroyed my watermelons, cucumbers, and pumpkins. They come out of nowhere. One day i see two or three, and the next day i go out to the garden to find them all over my vine crops. I've tried just about everything to kill them with no luck. I've resorted to filling a shop vac 1/4 full of water with dish soap mixed in. I just go out there and suck 'em off the plants and let them die in the shop vac. Our house is on a corner lot with a city sewer drain on the corner, I dump them in there early in the morning. Even without squashing them, they still stink.

Might they be squash bugs rather than stink bugs?

https://extension.umd.edu/hgic/stink-bug-or-squash-bug-can-you-tell-difference

Yes, I believe you're right. Thanks.

Stink bugs here too, I had seen somewhere they particularly like piles of dead leaves so cleaning that up around the area helps reduce them. Also kill a few but let them be, the smell acts as a warning to others and they stay away