Stinkbugs!

[MarkBNJ]

They're everywhere up here, clinging to the screens, crawling on the railings. I just smelled a weirdly awful smell and felt a tickling on my neck and found one there. I didn't think they sprayed unless threatened or crushed, but I'm guessing the bug and the smell weren't a coincidence. They're slippery and hard to pick up, you don't want to crush them, and you don't want them to die in the house because they're meaty and beetles love them. I read that the population is higher the further south and west you go. Is anyone down in the south part of the state seeing larger numbers of them this year?

 

[imkms]

They are thriving in SJ as well, In fact I just read an article about thme thriving in DC as well..

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local-beat/Stink-Bugs-Taking-Area-By-Swarm-103669344.html

 

[mudboy dave]

not only are they meaty but the stink is a ferimone so if you crush them you must pick up the carcass and clean up the mess or more will come. They invaded from China to PA as early as 98.

 

[DeepXplor]

My friends in the Honeybrook area of Chester County, PA, have them. I don't see them in my normal travels of Marlton, Medford, Tabernacle and Ocean township. I am sure that they will come.

 

[mudboy dave]

My friends in the Honeybrook area of Chester County, PA, have them. I don't see them in my normal travels of Marlton, Medford, Tabernacle and Ocean township. I am sure that they will come.

Atco, Hammonton and Penny Pot are getting hit hard also lindenwold

 

[devilstoy]

Atco, Hammonton and Penny Pot are getting hit hard also lindenwold

yea its rediculous around here

 

[MuckSavage]

We had about 12 of them on the east side of the house a few days ago. It was the woprst we've had here in Turmersville. Also, we have some taking up residence in our motorhome. In between us using the RV, it sits in storage where the interior temps have been above 110 degrees. The stinkbugs still survive.

 

[lakesgirl]

they are all over the place here....almost as bad as skeeters!

 

[MarkBNJ]

Oh great, so I have stinkbug love potion on my neck.

 

[wanderlust]

We moved to the Mullica Hill area a couple years ago from the west suburbs of Philly in Chester County. They were HORRIBLE there, I counted over a hundred on the side of our house at one point.

We had a few here and there last year so I was really surprised how bad they are this year.

 

[lakesgirl]

apparently not just here...I was watching one of the network news channels yesterday aand they said the stinkers are horrible all over the north east. Something about not using those "wonderful" pesticides have allowed them to reach these proportions.

 

[cranbrake]

i'm not about to bring marine toads to the pines or anything...... i wonder what, if any,native animal(s) eat them.

 

[MarkBNJ]

i'm not about to bring marine toads to the pines or anything...... i wonder what, if any,native animal(s) eat them.

According to an article in the NYT today they have no natural predators here, and there is no agreement on a control regime at this point. They do a lot of damage to fruit and other crops, so the government is looking at it, but they don't really have a clue on them yet.

 

[piker56]

the government is looking at it....

Yay! We're saved! (just kidding)

I did my annual shed clean out on Sunday. There were so many stink bugs I tried one of those foggers. I set it off, shut the door and waited 2 hours, opened the shed door and they just about covered the floor.
Greg

 

[bobpbx]

I have found them to be quite good on top of Cheerios. Very crunchy.

 

[Teegate]

I have found them to be quite good on top of Cheerios. Very crunchy.

Don't even joke about that. I was eating cereal one morning with my eyes closed because I was so tired, and when I opened them there was a dead fly in my spoon. I eat with my eyes open now.


Guy

 

[bobpbx]

Don't even joke about that. I was eating cereal one morning with my eyes closed because I was so tired, and when I opened them there was a dead fly in my spoon. I eat with my eyes open now.

Guy

Hey, you caught it in time. I once bet a guy $10 that he would not eat a fly. He did.

 

[LBwonderer]

Kill!

Instead of crushing them which will release the smell an effective (yet tedious) way to kill them is by coaxing them into a little paper cup or something and dousing it with windex (or some other cleaner WITH AMMONIA) particularly on its underside. If you just spray the top of it it'll just keep moving along. The ammonia is the key and as far as I read one of the very few chemical agents that affect them. After about a minute or two in an ammonia bath they go on to stinkbug hell- the only place they could possibly come from!

 

[mudboy dave]

I have found them to be quite good on top of Cheerios. Very crunchy.

I hear they give you bad breath

 

[MarkBNJ]

Instead of crushing them which will release the smell an effective (yet tedious) way to kill them is by coaxing them into a little paper cup or something and dousing it with windex (or some other cleaner WITH AMMONIA) particularly on its underside. If you just spray the top of it it'll just keep moving along. The ammonia is the key and as far as I read one of the very few chemical agents that affect them. After about a minute or two in an ammonia bath they go on to stinkbug hell- the only place they could possibly come from!

There are too many of them to execute in that manner, at least around my place. I just scoop them up in a cupped hand and throw them back outside. I should start marking them to see how many come back in.

Bob, I once ate a whole handful of ants, but not on purpose. We lived in upstate NY and one day in late spring, after school, I grabbed a handful of Cap'n Crunch from a box in the cupboard, and noticed that they tasted sort of sour... or like there were sour/pungent bits in with the sweet bits. Looked in the box and saw tons of black ants.