Problems with Stink Bugs

[DTB]

Stink Bugs are in my woodpiles. When I bring my wood in the house, they are in the house. Boy are they annoying! Does anyone else have this issue?

 

[tld400]

Stink Bugs are in my woodpiles. When I bring my wood in the house, they are in the house. Boy are they annoying! Does anyone else have this issue?

Yeah I get them too. Some years they are real bad and others not so much. They smell like cucumber.

 

[Mac88]

This time of year we have very few bugs and spiders. They're either dead or hibernating.

 

[DTB]

This time of year we have very few bugs and spiders. They're either dead or hibernating.

The cold and frost do not kill them for some reason.

 

[gregfox]

they leave the stacks of oak alone but are all over hickory:msp_thumbdn: oh well, hickory leaves too much ash anyways

 

[reaperman]

The cold and frost do not kill them for some reason.

But fire will

 

[Mac88]

Maybe that's it. No hickory in my shed. Mostly oak and hedge, some walnut, cherry, silver maple and mulberry.

 

[DTB]

they leave the stacks of oak alone but are all over hickory:msp_thumbdn: oh well, hickory leaves too much ash anyways

Thats funny, they are on the oak I have staked as well as other species. Glad they are not invading your oak.

 

[Arbonaut]

Haha. Bug have a natural antifreeze almost alcohol in thier blood composition. They can't freeze. But who said burn them? Hahahaha. Dang that's good.

 

[gregfox]

Thats funny, they are on the oak I have staked as well as other species. Glad they are not invading your oak.

Yeah me too. Or I should say the wife to. Smell don't bother me too much but the old lady sure likes to bit€h about the stink bugs

 

[darkbyrd]

I've smelled a few in my pecan.

 

[howellhandmade]

Funny, they were bad last year and everybody said this year was going to be Biblical, but I've seen very few in the house, and none in the firewood.

 

[bucknfeller]

We've got them here pretty bad. Havn't seen too many on the firewood, but I'm one of those evil ####ers who just throws it in a big pile in a hedgerow. I saw a snake when I was hooking up a plow last fall, so I ran in the shop and grabbed the old single barrel 12 ga. that I keep down there for such occasions, the barrel was packed so full of stink bugs I couldn't even stick the shell in. I'm glad it was full to the end, if I had managed to get the shell in, it might have gone un-noticed and could've been real bad. Now I keep a pill bottle over the end of the barrel. Just the other day I was working on an old truck, when I grabbed a deep impact socket, it was full of the little bastards. They have invaded all of my sockets in the top of the box.

 

[Sayheymj]

If I brought stink bugs in the house..... The wife would throw me out !!!

 

[dingeryote]

Bifenthrin.

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[Milkweed Seed]

Collect them and sell them to the Chinese restaurant near you. I hear they like to eat bugs when there are no rats or cats to eat

 

[Chris-PA]

We've had the horrible things for some years now - apparently the invasion began in Allentown. They crawl in behind things and inside things to stay warm. Whenever I use a power tool I put a glove on and take it outside, holding it carefully so the air exhaust points away from me - then I turn it on and all the stink bug guts blow out the exhaust. One of the main reasons I tend to leave spark arrestors on my saws is to keep the stink bugs out of the engine, although I have to admit I have not found any in there yet.

It seems like this last year has not been as bad for them in the house, but I don't know why. We live in a house form the 1830's and there is no way to keep them out it.

 

[Milkweed Seed]

I was told to flush them down the toilet. If you squash them the smell attracts more? Any truth to this?

 

[brettman414]

One of the main reasons I tend to leave spark arrestors on my saws is to keep the stink bugs out of the engine, although I have to admit I have not found any in there yet.

I have. Husqvarna 326 weedeater wouldnt start there were so many packed in the muffler then almost caught on fire after it did start. Hundreds in each door jam on 4 door truck parked in garage. Any that come in with the wood or found in the house go straight into the insert:angry2:

 

[woodchuck357]

Your "stink bug" problem sounds like

lady bugs to me. Please post pic.