Stinkbugs in my wood

[philoshop]

I'm burning a bunch of sugar maple this year. One of the nicest things about the maple is that every split has some kindling attached that just needs to be broken off. The bad thing is that stinkbugs get under those pieces that you can break off to put in the bucket.
I don't know what they do to create the smell, but it's not fun to squash one when going for a split to put into the stove. My house stinks right now just because the wood I brought in is warming up and the bugs are becoming active.
Not a question, just a comment.

 

[TimberWolf530]

We've had those friggin things everywhere this year. I've never seen so many of them.

 

[Marshy]

I mainly get mosquitoes. Trade?

 

[bear1998]

I was concerned about them this year so I had the house n garage sprayed this year...didn't see many. Seems like the bastards come n go as they please from one area to the next!!

 

[rarefish383]

Yep, I had to scoop them up with a flat shovel a couple years ago, this year only saw a couple. They do love my Oak pile too, so they are not not brand specific, Joe.

 

[CaseyForrest]

We had the stinkers bad this year. Haven't seen any in the wood, though.

But bugs is also why I don't keep wood in the house. Its either outside or in the stove.

 

[Woodcutteranon]

Sorry for the dense question. What are you calling stinkbugs? Are they the brown things that are shaped like a battle shield? Some call them "harlequin" bugs? Just curious.

Thanks

 

[Conquistador3]

I mainly get mosquitoes. Trade?

I have both. This year in enormous quantities, I'd say.
The stink bugs are merely annoying but the tiger mosquitos can drive you insane. Hopefully the cold weather we are having is killing the eggs, wherever they are, but I am not holding my breath.

 

[LondonNeil]

Last year for me it was wasps in the woodpile, brought 18 in the house from a little less then 2 cord. Queen wasps, huge, but very slow and dozy and easily swatted, thankfully. This year so far it's just the one wasp and lots of garden spiders.

 

[TimberWolf530]

Sorry for the dense question. What are you calling stinkbugs? Are they the brown things that are shaped like a battle shield? Some call them "harlequin" bugs? Just curious.

Thanks

Them's the ones.

 

[philoshop]

Don't squash 'em no matter what.
Gently pick them up with a piece of toilet paper and immediately put them into the stove or the toilet and get rid of them.

 

[Del_]

I toss them on top of the stove to sizzle.

But I've only found one or two this year.

 

[farmer steve]

I toss them on top of the stove to sizzle.

But I've only found one or two this year.

same thing here. i hate the bastiges. i like to watch them dance on top the stove. lucky it's in the shop and the smell ain't to bad.

 

[philoshop]

My stove was full of them at the end of the summer.
I kept hearing them rattle down my chimney and stove pipe. The MAPP gas torch took care of them.

 

[Woodcutteranon]

Them's the ones.

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Yup...that's what I was thinking of. Thanks

same thing here. i hate the bastiges. i like to watch them dance on top the stove. lucky it's in the shop and the smell ain't to bad.

Love the Johnny Dangerously reference! One of my favorite movies!

 

[Jackbnimble]

I have always loved all kinds of insects. If psychologists included abusing insects as a sign of a deeply disturbed nutjob, no one would come close to my pathology in this field.

Stinkbugs are absolutely the best creatures on earth to drop into a thick glass jar of gasoline or bleach. They simply love the stuff. Nothing on earth compares with drowning them slowly with several thousand of their comrades all swishing around, grasping for traction on the slippery see-through sides in their precious coffins of deadly poison. O, the pleasure watching them die all magnified in extended, agonizing swirls of gasping torture.

 

[TimberWolf530]

Yup...that's what I was thinking of. Thanks



Love the Johnny Dangerously reference! One of my favorite movies!

Me too. You Fargin Icehole. You miserable cork soaker. Dirty son a ma batches. My favorite line: Johnny's Mom - "Ah, an ashtray. I've been thinking of taking up smoking, and this clinches it."

 

[Woodcutteranon]

Me too. You Fargin Icehole. You miserable cork soaker. Dirty son a ma batches. My favorite line: Johnny's Mom - "Ah, an ashtray. I've been thinking of taking up smoking, and this clinches it."

They made it for him special...it's an 88 magnum. It shoots through schools...

Hello, I'm Doctor Zillman, and I'm here to talk to you about...your testes.