Stinkbugs!

[jgln]

Not a problem here - the centipedes that keep coming in (where, how?) are a pain, and they stink when you kill' em.

but - my brother in NC has ladybugs like crazy - he keeps a glass of hugely soapy water near the sink. Then he just knocks 'em into the glass -voila. Might work for you.

Centipedes creep me out. They are fast and when you smash them they still try and move, even a leg disconnected from the body will move. I think silverfish are next in line. Well, roaches are #1 mainly because they go for your food but luckily we don't have them.

 

[Germelli1]

We have those effin "Spider Crickets" or "Camel Crickets". Whatever the hell they are. I like spiders but these things creep me out. They live underneath our deck...eeek

 

[Skins_Brew]

Update- The garlic concoction had mixed results. There were hardly any on my sliding glass door but there were a bunch around this bedroom window. I sprayed some Ortho Home Defense Max and that did kill all of them that were on my window. Hopefully it will keep them away for a few days.

 

[BubbaK]

My neighbor tried mixing up dish soap and water then spraying the bugs and the house. While his house was sparkling clean after the first rain storm, it didn't do much for the stink bugs. Spraying the soap water directly on them supposedly penetrates their shell and kills them, but killing 10 only makes room for 20 more..

 

[TheBroonery]

When I got home today I spent about 45 minutes sucking at least 100 of them into the shop vac. Going back and forth along the back of the house, they just kept reappearing. effing bastages!!

 

[Hang Glider]

not stink bugs - but changing my post.
Millipedes here, not centipedes....my bad...

 

[brewguyver]

Stinkbugs decimated my tomatoes 2 years ago (that and aphids). Would suck on the fruit, it got infected, and then died. Real pain in the butt.

I have them on my hops now - trying to decide if I let the hops grow the rest of the season, or just cut the bines. Cones are already picked, so that's not an issue. Thoughts?

As an aside, old guy in the Home Depot saturday told me to pick up some mothballs and sprinkle them around the house and the plants. The bugs will be gone in a day or two. Haven't tried it yet, but the mothballs are on order from amazon.

 

[DrunkleJon]

Can't kill stinkbugs with poison. You will knock them down then they will wake back up again in a couple hours. They are the tanks of the bug world. Luckily I do not get them too bad near my house. My parents get them like the lovebug infestations and it is really annoting when they get in your bedroom and you hear the sound of a prop plane bussing around followed by a "tick" as they run into the wall or window and then fall on you.

It seems a lot of people cannot smell them. All I get is a mineral oil smell. It gets kinda strong when you vac them, but I am glad I don't smell em. Little buggers are jerks. The bastards will get in cracks so it is darn difficult unless you hermetically seal your house, to keep em out. Feed em to the the fish, throw them in a fly trap, drown em in soapy water or burn em. Thats the only ways I know to get rid of em. It is amusing to feed them to toads and spiders though.

 

[brewguyver]

I tried to feed one to a big@$$ banana spider. The jerk investigated, fiddled with the stinkbug, and flicked the big out of its web. I was so pissed (what good are you anyway, stupid prissy spider).

In winter I've gotten 100's in the space under my casement widows (but not in the house fortunately). It's fun to wash them out with grain alcohol. They twitch slightly as they float over the outside sill and fall off the house.

Btw - amazon is delivering my mothballs today - I'll report back with progress.

 

[two_hearted]

Had a bunch of these demons in one place I rented.

Another place I rented had ungodly amounts of asian lady beetles in the fall. thousands of those jerks. they bite too.

The stink bugs haven't invaded my current house yet, but they're definitely out there.

 

[argyle]

They don't smell all that bad. you want bad go smell some doe in heat of fox piss.

I'll just take your word for it that those two things smell bad.

However, never sweep them up in your sweeper. It will stink forever, changing the bag helps, but every time you turn on the vacuum you'll get a terrible smell of dankness. I'm not talking about a good hoppy dankness, it just smells bad.

 

[brewguyver]

As bad as the half box of mothball flakes I scattered throughout the back yard at 9 pm?

SWMBO (as I'm about to sit down to watch tv in boxers and a t-shirt) "Why did you take off your clothes?"
Me: "I smelled like moth balls"
SWMBO "And why do you smell like moth balls"
Me"I was trying to get rid of the stink bugs. You hate stink bugs!"
SWMBO "Um ..."
Me: "They were on our hop plants ..."
SWMBO "um...never mind ... I don't want to know"

At least we'll find out in a day or two what moth balls do to stink bugs (and hop plants).