Stink Bugs!

[analog_kidd]

What the heck is with all the stink bugs this year? I've never seen them this bad. They are everywhere! I got them all over the house, in the house and in the truck. They can sneak into just about anywhere. They crawl across my face while I'm sleeping and get stuck in my wife's hair. I'm over them. And you can't squish them, or they smell like a teenager's socks.

[McGarrett]

They have been coming out more lately. Not sure what the deal is with them. I don't remember them being around until just a few years ago. The cats like to play with them.

[Oh Shoot]

Last couple of years were some kind of record for them nation wide. Haven't been as bad around the Knox urb as last year so far.

 

I don't remember them being around until just a few years ago.

 

Always been around during my 66 years, just not usually a bumper crop.

 

- OS

Edited September 27, 2014 by Oh Shoot

[Raoul]

It seems they really are abundant in the Knoxville area. We have some here in the tri-cities, but my daughter and  several friends in the Knoxville area apparently have a bumper crop.

[hipower]

It seems they really are abundant in the Knoxville area. We have some here in the tri-cities, but my daughter and  several friends in the Knoxville area apparently have a bumper crop.

 

Also in the Madison/Inglewood area. They've been all ove my front and back door, lawn chairs and on the fencing.

 

And yes, it sure seems like a whole lot more than normal this year.

[Garufa]

They've taken over Knoxville.

[peejman]

Yep. More than I've ever seen this year.

[Fourtyfive]

I have hundreds of them ...

[Omega]

I got a couple of the battery powered fly swatters when Harbor Freight had free coupons for them. The smell of a bug being zapped is just plain satisfying, and not as bad as squishing them.

[rugerla1]

When I was in school (20 years ago) in Missouri, these things were everywhere all the time. Like mentioned above, until the last couple years I don't much remember seeing them here in TN.

[Schadenfreude]

You do realize these are Asian stink bugs

[BrasilNuts]

You do realize these are Asian stink bugs

Wow, they flew a long way.

[Mike.357]

how do you get rid of them?

[Oh Shoot]

how do you get rid of them?

 

December. ;)  Except for the ones that make it inside.

 

- OS

[Dolomite_supafly]

how do you get rid of them?

Vacuum them up is how we deal with them. Ernie would eat them and stick up the house, so far Gus seems to not like them.

[bersaguy]

I have not noticed them around Gallatin  YET!!!

[Troutburger]

It's all part of bho's immigration plan.

[Motasyco]

Knock em in to a cup of water with some dish soap in it.  They die and they don't stink like they do when you smash them.  If you have kids, you could give them a cup of soapy water and put a bounty on the little pests.  The stink bugs, not the kids. 

[Mike.357]

we tried Dawn and they did not react to it

[peejman]

we tried Dawn and they did not react to it

Supposedly it takes time. The detergent removes the waxy coating and they dehydrate.

[hipower]

Wifey and I got into the garage this afternoon. It was awful. The little suckers were everywhere!

 

On the doors, windows, getting into boxes, under things. Phewww.

 

Thinking of moving till cold weather kills them off.

[frankmako]

i got a bunch around my place too.  

[JWC]

we tried Dawn and they did not react to it

Put some acetone in it.

They eat up my green beans this year. I Edited September 29, 2014 by JWC

[Just2Honor]

Al Gore says it's a sign of global warming

[greenego]

Al Gore says it's a sign of global warming

Al Gores an idiot. :rolleyes: