[Scurvy Dog]

A Healthful 2009 to all

As a change of pace from the "political" thread, I'd like to find out who else has been "invaded" by stinkbugs. We had a dozen or so throughout the house in the fall every week or two and they gradually went to zero (or so I thought) I had never seen more the 1-2 on rare occasions prior to that.

Yesterday, we found 3 in the house and today 4 more in our bed, bath, and beyond. Its like thay hatched again. I hear the kids upstairs getting excited by yet another one right now.

Anybody sharing this issue?

 

[goinsfishin]

No stinkbugs.....the cats think they're candy !!!!!

 

[MIKE BURGESS]

Someone in my house has Stinkbutt does that count ?

 

[twiskman]

Ive seen a few in my office on the back of the house... I thought it was wierd too... youre not alone.

 

[Rouffis]

We had a bunch as well. It turns out that were getting in through the AC unit in the window.

 

[5th Tuition]

I've seen some in the last few days as well. I thought they were coming from the firewood I was bringing into the house the last few really cold days. 5th (Marty)

 

[Muireadach]

They live with me. Article in the Wash-Post today gives no solution. They're everywhere. There are other breeding critters related to this species breeding in crumbs, crackers, and dog/cat food left about. I will kill them all before open season for rockfish. In the cold, dark months of Jan-Feb, I am an unforgiving land lord. If all else fails I will double dust them in flour/cornmeal and roll them up in rockfish bundles for winter frydaddies. Mmmmmm..... crunchy stinkbuggggsssszzz.

Twiskman knows.... It's all about the food for me. mmmmmmm.....stinkbug wraps, in tender rockfish.

 

[LES PA]

I've had a few Didn't have them untill I brought firewood into the house. I don't like them!
Les

 

[NachoLibre]

I've been seeing a bunch in my house this winter also, which is very unusual. They're really annoying 'cause my daughter freaks out when she sees them.

 

[twiskman]

They live with me. Article in the Wash-Post today gives no solution. They're everywhere. There are other breeding critters related to this species breeding in crumbs, crackers, and dog/cat food left about. I will kill them all before open season for rockfish. In the cold, dark months of Jan-Feb, I am an unforgiving land lord. If all else fails I will double dust them in flour/cornmeal and roll them up in rockfish bundles for winter frydaddies. Mmmmmm..... crunchy stinkbuggggsssszzz.

Twiskman knows.... It's all about the food for me. mmmmmmm.....stinkbug wraps, in tender rockfish.

Thanks Pat! I really needed the laugh!!!

 

[Echo]

Ya know, this place is just amazing.. I was actually going to post about Stinkbugs, and thought, " Better Not"

But yes for the last four months or so, I kill one about every four days. Never seen more than one in my house at a time, which is weird. Love to know where they are all coming from.

My wife hates " anything that crawls" but she doesn't flinch when a stinkbug flies past her.

Drives my shepard crazy..

 

[cmason164]

yup, we got them for the first time this year too, although I havent seen any for a couple of weeks. Earlier this winter we would find a couple every day. I thought it was odd, considering we just had orkin out to do a termite removal in the basement....

 

[JFP123]

We too are plagued by them. Before last year I never saw one, but last year and this, they are regulars in the house.

 

[bigtahuna]

I haven't had them in the house, but I've been finding them in every part of my boat. And I mean every part, inside the under seat storage of the leaning post their were twelve to fifteen huddled inside each of the three butt head rod holders I keep there, somehow they got inside the console, they're wedged between the switches and the dash panel. I took my binnacle control apart to grease it and reroute the cables and I found them inside of it. Wherever there's a bundle of wires they're wedged in between them. I have mooring covers over everything and they still found a way in. At least now that they're frozen they don't stink.

 

[tiderunner3150]

Yep, I got em. They sound like littel helicopers when they fly by. Past 2 years we have had a lot of the little buggers. I have seen them in years past but not like now. I remember yeras and years ago I never seen an ear-wig, but now they are everywhere. Now those I could live with out. Is there any natural preditiors that kills these things. I know you can buy praying mantises and lady bugs on line.

 

[Hillbilly Boater]

Our house is 13 years old and we've never had those critters for 11 years, but last year and this, we've gotem. Never see them except indoors in the winter. What's up with that? Any way, I take great pleasure in dispatching everyone I see. Unfortunitely that only seems to bring more. The only good thing about them is the funny look the dogs make when the pick one up in their mouths.:eek2:

 

[Bottom Knocker]

Some yaers it ladybugs, some years its a bug shaped like a stink bug, but longer and red and black pattern on its back..

 

[Lone Ranger]

Some yaers it ladybugs, some years its a bug shaped like a stink bug, but longer and red and black pattern on its back..

"red and black pattern on its back.." They are Box Elder Bugs.

 

[Jim Hensley]

Somebody has to do some research on these guys. I'm like Jack, last year and this year was a bumper year for Stinkbugs. They were everywhere in the fall. I couldn't keep them out of the house. I've found a couple in the house since then but nowhere near the number that were around this fall and the past fall. Prior to those years I saw a few but.......

 

[Jim Hensley]

Ok....I couldn't help myself. This is right out of Penn State and the Dept of Entemology.

The brown marmorated stink bug, an insect not previously seen on our continent, has apparently been accidentally introduced into eastern Pennsylvania. It was first collected in September of 1998 in Allentown, but probably arrived several years earlier. As of April 2008, Halyomorpha halys has been recorded from the following 26 counties:

Allegheny
Beaver
Berks
Blair
Bucks
Butler
Cambria


Carbon
Centre
Chester
Cumberland
Dauphin
Delaware
Franklin Lackawanna
Lancaster
Lebanon
Lehigh
Monroe
Montgomery
Northampton
Northumberland
Perry
Philadelphia
Pike
Snyder
York

This true bug in the insect family Pentatomidae is known as an agricultural pest in its native range of China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. It becomes a nuisance pest both indoors and out when it is attracted to the outside of houses on warm fall days in search of protected, overwintering sites. It occasionally reappears during warmer sunny periods throughout the winter, and again as it emerges in the spring.

Looks like it's not just Pennsylvania or they're movin South