<p>Oh my gosh, these things are currently the bane of my existence. They are exceedingly creepy! I live in MD and these things didn’t exist in our area until two years ago. Each year they have gotten progressively worse. I guess the silver lining is that you will find every single little bitty crack and crevice in your house b/c if it is there, they will find it and appear. UGH!! I am not afraid of bugs, spiders etc but for whatever reason, these give me the heebie jeebies. My daughter is my stinkbug wrangler, thankfully!</p>
<p>Who else is battling these nasty little beasts?</p>
<p>Well, they’ve been here in PA for a few years. It actually seems to be a bit better this year, but we are going ahead with a fall “spray” of our house. We also replaced lots of screens cause they were coming in through the cracks. </p>
<p>It was crazy last year. We had them in our cars. In our bed - woke me up one night…ughh. And crawling up my pj pants…while I was wearing them. The only good thing I can say is that they’re SLOW. We pick them up in tissue paper in throw them in the toilet. Otherwise they STINK up the house!</p>
<p>I saw my first stink bug last fall while visiting F&M. It was climbing on a book we were about to pick up in their bookstore. I had no idea what it was, it looked like part insect, part turtle. It might be one of the ugliest creatures I have ever seen. </p>
<p>I can’t even imagine those beasts climbing on me. Yuk</p>
<p>Ugh. My whole area has them - all the neighbors are complaining. They have been the worst ever this year, although the last couple of weeks or so have finally been a lot better. As it gets dark there they are -when it was the worst we’d see one, maybe more every few minutes. The crazy thing is that you NEVER see where they are coming from. You turn around and there they just are. They have two completely different personalities - either dive bombing from the ceiling like crazy kamikaze pilots (one landed in my hair a few weeks ago - gross!!) or sedately sitting on a wall or ledge, where they won’t move a muscle or fly away even when you go to lift them up in a paper towel. Fortunately, they are quite harmless and I’ve never had the supposed bad smell that is associated with them, either. </p>
<p>Exterminators have discouraged us from doing anything and say that treatments only work temporarily or not at all, but I am going to try anyway. You are also supposed to check and trim foundation plants near your house, caulk places where they can get in, keep outside foundation lighting off if possible and close curtains so that they aren’t attracted by the light. I hear that they are working on better insecticides specific to them - hope they hurry!</p>
<p>toneranger, that is my exact disposal method. We get them in the house in the spring when the weather warms up, mostly in my D’s bedroom upstairs (access to the attic is through her room). She calls them “ugly bugs” and yells for me when she sees one! They seem harmless, so I just pick them up and flush 'em.</p>
<p>Bad here in NJ also.
We leave the light on in the upstairs bathroom at night so anyone can use it easily.
The light does attract them through the screen I guess.</p>
<p>The slow lumbering ones are gross but the kamikazi divebombing ones from the ceiling are scary. And they make a very loud buzzing sound as they are whirling around the light fixture. We think they are prehistoric looking and will be featured in a new sci-fi movie out soon.</p>
<p>I see an occasional one in my house or on the outside wall of my porch. They are ugly. I haven’t experiences the “manic” version just the depressed ones. LOL.</p>
<p>No noticeable smell either. Maybe they are a different variety.</p>
<p>We’ve had them for several years now, but until this year, they stayed downstairs. I would die if I found one crawling all over me in bed! I did read that they were attracted to sun and also, for some reason, the color yellow. My family room is a big sunny, yellow room. The other day I “relocated” over a dozen of them in one sweep of the room.</p>
<p>We first saw stink bugs ten years ago in our old house. They were everywhere and they flew. They are merely bad in our new house, not quite as many, and I haven’t seen these guys fly. I hate them.</p>
<p>They aren’t back in my area yet. My kids (including the two boys) don’t like them so my husband and I usually have to get them. We just pick them up and toss them back outside. I think bugs (except for mosquitoes and ticks) are pretty interesting. My panic is for rodents.</p>
<p>I’m surprised I didn’t find the stinkbug thread on page one. Am I the only one overwhelmed with these things these days? It started up again about a week ago and today I can barely get any work done for keeping these cleaned up. I think I found about 50 today. I’m using a combination of vacuuming and dropping them in a container of soapy water. I think the vacuuming is risky (will they get stressed?!), but it’s the only way to get some of them high up (12 foot ceilings). We’re in a old house with cracks and crevices galore, so no real hope of keeping them out. Help!</p>
<p>We’ve only had a few stinkbugs in the house, but outside? Oh, my! It’s like an invasion of locusts. They’re EVERYWHERE. I can’t go out my deck without stinkbugs flying into my face and crawling down my shirt. From the inside of our house, we can see hundreds (maybe thousands?) of stinkbugs crawling on our outside window screens. It’s seriously creepy. My neighbor said she feels like she’s in a Hitchcock movie.</p>
:rolleyes:</p>
