I hate stink bugs! (North east)

[Stevenmverrill]

so I cleaned my stove pipe to start the burn season. using mostly pine last year I'm glad to report I only had about 2 cups of soot/ creosote.

so now it gets nasty!
I swear without exaggeration I had, as much stink bug, as I did soot/ creosote!
Nothing like scoping moving chimney stuff. lol as if that job did not suck enugh...

so mostly out of curiosity how far have the Beloved stink bugs made it? I know they arrived in pa years ago, and are definitely doing well in md. seams they like the heat, and will find a way in to it!

so let's hear some stink bug storys!

 

[matt1@]

Yeah they're nasty, i have light sconces in my house which seems to be a natural trap. They go in there for the light and heat and then they die and i have a little bug cemetery on my walls

 

[xman23]

A few years ago I saw them in South Jersey. But so far not in North Jersey or my place in North East PA

 

[cableman]

Their here on longisland, find em all over. I try to knock them out of the way, no crushing hate the smell! dont come off for days.

 

[earl764]

When I find any, I pick them up and throw them into the web of a large spider. Gets rid of the stink bug and keeps the pest janitor fed.

 

[tarzan]

We have them here this year. We've seen a few here and there over the years but we have been fighting an army of them the last couple weeks.

 

[Smoked]

Our worst year was 4 or 5 years ago. There are still plenty of them around but not nearly as many inside as before. I think they may like the wood piles though...

 

[jrems]

Those buggers seem to go down the liner when it's starts to get cold out. The first couple fires cooks em and they drop into my clean out tee. Last year I had more stink bugs than soot when I cleaned the liner out.

 

[kennyp2339]

I live in NW Jersey, I had them inside the house bad 5 years ago, since that 1st waive they have seem to move on, so far this year I've had literally 2 inside, and I'm always cleaning so I would notice, check all lights, behind curtains, and anywhere there's a water source.

 

[BigFir]

Don't worry they are on this side of the continent as well, I don't know how but they get around the screens on my windows, when no other bug can?

 

[baseroom]

Got a bunch up here in upstate NY. Flush them quickly!!

 

[Spletz]

They are all over here in Michigan as well. Can't wait for a solid frost! Any day now.

 

[Beer Belly]

Yup, got'em here in SW corner of Connecticut.....not as bad as the past year though

 

[Squisher]

Plenty of them over here in Vernon British Columbia. I fine them in tons of stoves/inserts/fireplaces. They don't bother me much at all. The smell doesn't even bother me much.

 

[edyit]

up here in upstate NY in the adirondacks as well

 

[Jan Pijpelink]

We have them here every now and then. Since 4-5 years or so. Not too many.

 

[tarzan]

Anyone here have Asian Beetles? I had never seen one until a few years ago, since then they have showed up like clockwork every fall by the thousands most years. They look like Ladybugs and will hybernate in anything that keeps them out of the weather.

 

[Seasoned Oak]

They are everywhere. I guess the have no predators in this country.

 

[rijim]

They have set up camp in RI unfortunately.