WTH!!! I'm getting invaded over here!

amulford
amulford Posts: 5,020
edited April 2011 in The Clubhouse
I kid you not, the past year has been pretty bad for stink bugs. I chalked it up to the winter... But over the last few days, it seems damn near a biblical plague!

What is this some sort of natural cycle? Do ya think Al Queda might be setting us up? Or is this the insidous work of the seditious malcontents hellbent on teaching us the evils of our sedentary usurping lifestyle???

Seriously, though, anybody else having this problem? I must have gotten rid of twenty of the stinking little bastads tonight alone. You can't squash 'em, and DON'T suck them up in the vacuum (trust me on this one...). It's out of hand. I hope the little effers don't wise up and band together. I'd be effed... :eek:
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited April 2011
    A little behind the times are we? :wink:

    These **** are illegal immigrants from China with no natural predators. They have been invading the east coast for a few years now, after the original infestation in PA. I was just at my sister's house outside of Hagerstown MD, and it is a mess. She has a portable vacuum she uses to suck up any in the house. It is usually about 5-10 an hour. I then went down to my father's place on the Easter Shore, and it, so far, is stink bug free.

    It will only get worse.
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  • cokewithvanilla
    cokewithvanilla Posts: 1,777
    edited April 2011
    I've got those too... tons.. I didn't even know what they were till you mentioned it.
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,270
    edited April 2011
    Sounds like an old horror movie birds, frogs, locusts

    We just need some effing rain
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  • newrival
    newrival Posts: 2,017
    edited April 2011
    are we talking about stink bugs or asian beetles?
    stink bugs are native to 1/3 of the US (mostly south west) and the asian betles look like orange-yellow lady bugs.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited April 2011
    Ortho Home Defense Max will keep them out. I usually don't have any problems with them because I sprayed in the attic and around the base of the house and outside door frames. I'll still get one or two in the house flying in when a door opens. But I leave the porch light off to help reduce the chances of it happening.

    Kill any of them that you see. Even if I see one eyein' me up on the outside of the screen, I'll squirt it with Spectracide right through the friggin' screen.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited April 2011
    newrival wrote: »
    are we talking about stink bugs or asian beetles?
    stink bugs are native to 1/3 of the US (mostly south west) and the asian betles look like orange-yellow lady bugs.

    Sorry, genius, he's referring to the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug native to Mainland China.

    Brown_marmorated_stink_bug_adult.jpg

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

    It's been well documented that the mid-Atlantic states have been inundated with the brown marmorated stink bug which has no natural predators here and reproduces at 3 times the rate or the native stink bug population. The brown marmorated stink bug is on the invasive species list and you're supposed to kill every single one you see and throw them in the trash, burn them or drown them because they can carry eggs that will still hatch.

    Personally, I like putting them in a jar with a hearty helping of some caustic hydrocarbon and watch them writhe in a chemical warfare induced death.
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,713
    edited April 2011
    I'm going with the seditious malcontents.
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  • newrival
    newrival Posts: 2,017
    edited April 2011
    jstas - people in the midwest call the highly invasive asian beetles "stink beetles," "stink bugs," etc. its a widely used common name for several bugs as well as many natives. Thats why I asked.

    thanks for the info.
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  • ohskigod
    ohskigod Posts: 6,502
    edited April 2011
    glad to hear ortho home defense works....would explain why i only get them infrequently on the second floor and never the first or basement. I usually kill about 3 a week, and up to one or 2 a day during bad cycles, the ortho I lay down on the first floor must help, I gotta hook up the second floor


    I ortho the first floor once a year at least, sometimes twice for good measure though theoretically you only need to do it once.
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  • zarrdoss
    zarrdoss Posts: 2,562
    edited April 2011
    Just be glad they're not cockroaches eh? we got a bad infestation of earwigs a few years ago and they got in everything and the damn things were immune to everything so I feel your pain.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,495
    edited April 2011
    Seriously, though, anybody else having this problem?

    Yep, been flushing 3 to 5 a day. I still can't figure out how the little **** are getting in as this place is really air tight. :mad:
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited April 2011
    guess it would be worse if you had dung beetles.. LOL

    here it's ants, flying ants, carpenter ants, red and black ants, and termites
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited April 2011
    I hear they flock to homes with bad sound. I don't know if that rumor is true, as there is no sup-par audio in this abode. I'll keep a look out though. Seems to me so far they crave vintage SDA? ;)
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,495
    edited April 2011
    LOL....you got me thinking here and I'm thinking it's those new speakers, the ones made in China.
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  • Polkersince85
    Polkersince85 Posts: 2,883
    edited April 2011
    Leave them alone. They will eat all the bed bugs in the house.:eek:
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  • [Deleted User]
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    edited April 2011
    I didn't have very good luck with the Ortho home defense, so I decided to try something more professional. The stuff I used was Cyper TC, 1 to 2 ounces per gallon. The thing is to treat twice per year. Once in the fall and in the spring. So far this has held them at bay, not nearly as many as last year. Be careful with this stuff around kids, pets and of course yourself. Hope this helps. :cool:
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  • amulford
    amulford Posts: 5,020
    edited April 2011
    I KNEW IT!!! Stinkin little pinko commi bastads!!!

    I'm gonna try some Home Defense. This BS is too much...
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  • mrbiron
    mrbiron Posts: 5,711
    edited April 2011
    These **** are illegal immigrants from China with no natural predators.
    This is where you are wrong....I am a natural predator!!
    I had 1 in the house last year....just 1. But when i'm outside, i will walk 20 feet out of my way to crush their skulls with the likes of a leaf or gardening glove. NO TOLERANCE! They will do anything to enter the home and i mean anything. USPS would show up with packages i don't remember ordering so i would open them outside, BAM!....5 stink bugs inside trying to mail themselves to the inner confines of my home....tricky!! :rolleyes:
    Where’s the KABOOM?!?! There’s supposed to be an Earth shattering KABOOM!!!
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited April 2011
    nap wrote: »
    I didn't have very good luck with the Ortho home defense, so I decided to try something more professional. The stuff I used was Cyper TC, 1 to 2 ounces per gallon. The thing is to treat twice per year. Once in the fall and in the spring. So far this has held them at bay, not nearly as many as last year. Be careful with this stuff around kids, pets and of course yourself. Hope this helps. :cool:

    That's the thing. Ortho Home Defense Max is only harmful while wet. But it stinks so the kids and pets stay away from it anyway. Dries in 20 minutes or less and after that it's pretty safe for people and pets. Granted you shouldn't go licking the treated area or anything but if you're doing thresholds and sill plates in basements, attics and outside around the foundation, who really licks those areas anyway? They're all gritty and full of bug carcasses from last year's application.

    The Ortho stuff isn't a poison as much as it's a chemical that reacts with the wax coating on the bugs exoskeleton, legs and feet. It dries out and dissolves that waxy coating and the bugs can't breathe anymore because of it. They suffocate and die. It happens pretty quickly too.

    Ortho also kills everything. Stink bugs, ants, spiders, bees, wasps and so on. It doesn't get transported back to a hive or anything either so you won't wipe out some poor farmer's bees.
    amulford wrote: »
    I KNEW IT!!! Stinkin little pinko commi bastads!!!

    I'm gonna try some Home Defense. This BS is too much...

    I've had good luck with it. Be smart about the applications. I don't spray inside as much as I do outside. Under the lower edge of siding, around the edge of door jambs, along the sill plate for the foundation, around the outside of the window frames and the soffits. In the attic, spare around the frames of any vents including mushroom vents. Any holes where you see daylight and the most important of all, the attic access door. Spray the ridge vent if you have one. Spraying the soffits should keep you from having to spray down the inside. Weaseling your way down to the very edge of the roof trusses sucks. Oh, if you have a chimney running through your attic, spray around the insides of that too and make sure it's sealed properly. Oh and one more place, the outside of the kitchen fan vent and any vents like a bathroom vent. Outdoor electrical outlet boxes and lighting fixtures with wiring paths to the inside of the home would be a good place to spray too.

    I also spray down my entire garage. Along the corners of the floor and the entire garage door jamb as well at the joints between the door panels. The steps and interior entrance door and window jamb get sprayed down as well.

    It's a pain in the keister but luckily you only have to do it once a year. Since I've been doing it though, zero problems with bugs in the house. I mean, occasionally I get them but they didn't get in past the perimeter. They got in through an open door or window or hitchhiking on clothes or bags or something. But like moths that venture in to the garage at night when I have the door open and lights on, within 30 minutes they are on the floor twitching.
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited April 2011
    I think they're cute.
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  • pearsall001
    pearsall001 Posts: 5,068
    edited April 2011
    Ortho is one hell of a product, I should know because I work for Scotts. We can't advertise it as being able to kill the **** stink bugs because it's really only a deterant. Hey but anything that helps in this fight is a huge plus until someone figures out how to kill them dead. Chimneys, vents, or any opening is a way for them to enter your house. Hopefully we'll be the first company to bring the killer product to market...the stock should jump up nicely! :smile: Any lawn questions?
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  • bigaudiofanatic
    bigaudiofanatic Posts: 4,415
    edited April 2011
    I remember a few of these around when i was a kid. Now I see them all over. One of the girls I work with thinks its a conspiracy with something to do with China and a secret poison attack. Considering she is from the 60's I just nod my head in agreeing and walk away slowly.
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  • bigaudiofanatic
    bigaudiofanatic Posts: 4,415
    edited April 2011
    Jstas wrote: »

    Personally, I like putting them in a jar with a hearty helping of some caustic hydrocarbon and watch them writhe in a chemical warfare induced death.

    You sir need some medical help.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited April 2011
    Good gravy Stas, is there anything you canNOT write a page on?
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited April 2011
    RuSsMaN wrote: »
    Good gravy Stas, is there anything you canNOT write a page on?

    Your mom.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited April 2011
    pearsall001 wrote: »
    Ortho is one hell of a product, I should know because I work for Scotts. We can't advertise it as being able to kill the **** stink bugs because it's really only a deterant. Hey but anything that helps in this fight is a huge plus until someone figures out how to kill them dead. Chimneys, vents, or any opening is a way for them to enter your house. Hopefully we'll be the first company to bring the killer product to market...the stock should jump up nicely! :smile: Any lawn questions?

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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,601
    edited April 2011
    No problem with these. The fire ants tend to whack any other
    foreign invaders!
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited April 2011
    We get them every year in the warehouse, but ours look different. Just like a large black beetle...and you're absolutely right DO NOT vacuum them up, you will pay for that error.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited April 2011
    bigaudiofanatic wrote: »
    You sir need some medical help.

    No I don't. I'm perfectly well adjusted to my insanity.

    You, on the other hand, need alot of things but my second grade teacher told me "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all". Which never really stopped me before. I guess I'm just being lazy.
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  • Joe08867
    Joe08867 Posts: 3,919
    edited April 2011
    We used to get infested with Lady Bugs but now it is these friggin things. Luckily, we have house spiders or Garden Orb spiders around that love eating these things. Personally I kill them every chance I get. The smell awful and are weird looking too.
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