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emmelch1

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Dec 7, 2010
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Chesapeake City, MD
Just kidding , well maybe not ... quite a few met their fiery death wrapped in a tissue in My pellet stove over the winter !!! This Summer we're suppose to have a bumper crop of these Stinky pest !!! I'll have to see if My stove has a SB setting on it.
Enjoy the Summer, CE
 
emmelch1 said:
Just kidding , well maybe not ... quite a few met their fiery death wrapped in a tissue in My pellet stove over the winter !!! This Summer we're suppose to have a bumper crop of these Stinky pest !!! I'll have to see if My stove has a SB setting on it.
Enjoy the Summer, CE

Add them to the pellet hopper, maybe? :)
 
no known predators. These things are vile. My house is covered with them!! If you spray they just fly away and come back when they feel it's safe again. UGH
 
Salty said:
no known predators. These things are vile. My house is covered with them!! If you spray they just fly away and come back when they feel it's safe again. UGH

Try some chickens.
 
mix a little dish soap and water in a spray bottle and spray this on them, then watch them die. Don't laugh, it actually works pretty well.
 
I'm SURE my neighbors would love that :)

SmokeyTheBear said:
Salty said:
no known predators. These things are vile. My house is covered with them!! If you spray they just fly away and come back when they feel it's safe again. UGH

Try some chickens.
 
I remember back in the 80's we were inundated with caterpillars. Soapy water works well, it drowns them. It was something out of a horror movie - they were dropping from trees onto peoples' heads, cars, houses, sidewalks, everywhere. We finally got rid of them with an aerial spray of some kind of bacteria.
 
I was reading something a couple of weeks ago that some place they are supposed to be working on some type of bee or wasp that kills them. But then that is something new we have to worry about besides the stink bugs!
 
My cat kills them, but won't eat them.
 
SmokeyTheBear said:
Salty said:
no known predators. These things are vile. My house is covered with them!! If you spray they just fly away and come back when they feel it's safe again. UGH

Try some chickens.

chickens in a pellet stove? You're sick.
 
smwilliamson said:
SmokeyTheBear said:
Salty said:
no known predators. These things are vile. My house is covered with them!! If you spray they just fly away and come back when they feel it's safe again. UGH

Try some chickens.

chickens in a pellet stove? You're sick.

That's me, very, very, sick. I murder carrots and parsnips by pulling them from the ground screaming.

If you can't keep chickens Salty, try a dozen of these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guineafowl . They are a lot noisier than chickens and will devour just about any living bug that will show up on your lot.
 
Gineas or however you spell the word are incredible tick eaters and any other bug but it seems to me the fav for them is ticks. They are noisy but do the job. My old neighbor had a dozen or so. They must be tasty because the foxes or coyotes love them also. I have only been around a few luckily and they are nasty.
 
Chickens won't eat Stink bugs or Lady bugs! They do love pebbles, grass hopppers, tomato worms, etc....
 
Bumper crop of stinkbugs this year? Yikes.

My understanding is you have to spray them with whatever directly. You can't keep them from coming back. I'm going to try this soap/water idea, because it's free and vacuuming and smashing them is getting old.
 
emmelch1 said:
Just kidding , well maybe not ... quite a few met their fiery death wrapped in a tissue in My pellet stove over the winter !!! This Summer we're suppose to have a bumper crop of these Stinky pest !!! I'll have to see if My stove has a SB setting on it.
Enjoy the Summer, CE


They produce less clinkers than Maine Woods...
Just an observation
 
heat seeker said:
I remember back in the 80's we were inundated with caterpillars. Soapy water works well, it drowns them. It was something out of a horror movie - they were dropping from trees onto peoples' heads, cars, houses, sidewalks, everywhere. We finally got rid of them with an aerial spray of some kind of bacteria.

They use Bt.

In case anyone has problems with Japanese beetles, I'd suggest not wincing at the cost of milky spore, it isn't cheap and should actually be applied over a fairly large area, and apply it. It needs time to build up in the soil, but the beetle problem will lessen as time goes by (it works on the beetle grubs) while waiting for it to fully take effect once again chickens love them so catch them by hand using a fluff container with just a little water in the bottom and knocking them off leaves and into the container, use a swirling motion to get them well covered with water and to prevent them from flying back out.

Yeah, I know, I'm sick, and do weird things like raise chickens and grow some food.
 
You're talking about these, right?
 

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No the stink bugs are brownish and bigger
or more round shaped than those
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jeff_t said:
You're talking about these, right?
thats a boxelder bug. have those by the millions in addition to the stinkbugs.
 
jeff_t said:
You're talking about these, right?

The box elders are our only big annoyance here luckily. We have one tree out front they love to lay their eggs on all the leaves. I sprayed it 3-4 times last year and we watched all the little baby bugs squirm and die . They hide out in the gravel bed the tree is going out of also.

We get those Asian beetles also, but not too terrible. I have seen them swarming by the 1000's against the sides of houses in some areas. I think my wife would move out if we got them that bad.
 
ebengel said:
mix a little dish soap and water in a spray bottle and spray this on them, then watch them die. Don't laugh, it actually works pretty well.
This works great on Earwigs!!!
 
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