Fellow loungers, I need to discuss something serious with you.

[LibraLiz1973]

Well, serious to me.

I am overwhelmed, skeeved out and FRUSTRATED with the current "things" residing in my home. I'm finding up to ten of them a day & am just about at the end of my rope.

What things could so torture me? STINK BUGS!

Ugh. If you don't know what they are, count yourself LUCKY. If you do know what they are and you have had them- how do you go about getting rid of of them?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?



They are absolutely disgusting. Exterminators say they cant really do anything to stop the invasion. Ahhhhh!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_marmorated_stink_bug

[MorningGlow]

1. HOLY MOTHER OF GOD

Those are the nastiest things on the planet! Tell me, do you have cats that think it'd be cool to nom on one, and then you get that awful perfumey stink throughout the house (and a cat that looks confused and grossed out--and yet they're often stupid enough to do it more than once)?

We had stinkbugs at our last house--a log home in a pine forest. Never could figure out how to eradicate those little boogers--but we did perfect the art of scooping them up LOOSELY in a tissue and flushing them down the toilet. One nasty bug at a time...

[LibraLiz1973]

2. Thankfully, I don't have animals that are being tortured by these damn things.

My neighbors dog got so sick from eating one they had to have the vet come to their house because she was vomiting and diarrhea non stop for over three hours! Turns out she had probably eaten more than one. They said what she was throwing up smelled so horrific!

And it isn't even the top of them that skeeves me out- it's their underside. BARF.

I normally get a small wet piece of toilet paper, grab and flush them. I could not hate these things more!

[applegrove]

3. I think I may have seen them as a kid. I have a vague memory of such a critter.

[Whoa_Nelly]

4. Couple of sites for you

http://www.control-insect.com/insect-control/stink-bug-control

With their follow up article on control:
http://www.bugspray.com/article/stinkbug.html


This one suggest using glue strips to capture them :shrug:
http://www.e-bug.net/forum/messages/8270.shtml

[LibraLiz1973]

5. Hmm. Glue strips may be a GREAT idea!

thanks for the links

[blogslut]

6. Get an empty dishwashing liquid bottle

Fill it with half sugar and half 20 Mule Team Borax and squirt it where the bugs live.

Borax kills all insects.

[LibraLiz1973]

8. I did not know that!

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

7. Whatever you do, DON'T STEP ON ONE.

You WILL regret it. They don't call 'em Stink bugs for nuttin'...

[LibraLiz1973]

9. Ugh. I've smelt what they've dealt before.

It makes me nauseous to the extreme!