[Starless]

We've had them in small numbers, outside, only have seen a few in the house but in the summer. This year it was terrible. I have a fairly large garden. I went out one Saturday morning and was looking at the garden from the deck, over by my watermelons all I could see was black, no green melons. I went over there and the entire plant, vine, flowers and melons were covered in stink bugs. They covered my melons, honeydews, squash, zucchini, and cucumbers. The entire plant. I tried spraying them with water mixed with detergent, insecticidal soap, and any insecticide I had. Nothing killed them. Out of options i took my large shop vac, filled it with detergent and water and sucked them into the shop vac. Took almost 2 hours. Later in the day I had to do it again. This went on for 3-4 days until there were hardly any left. By that point the plants were all dead, they sucked the vines until they rotted. Oddly, they didn't touch any of the other veggies. As I was pulling out what was left of the vines, they started coming up from underground. It was gross! I dumped the shop vac down a storm drain in the street after i was sure they were all dead. It stunk up the whole street. Not sure what's going to happen this year when I plant my garden.