The STINK Bug!

[KK4AMI]

I figured this is a good question to ask Hams. Who all knows what the Stink Bug is? How many of you are infested with it? I'd like to get an idea how far it is spreading and how to kill it. Virginia is infested with the little buggers.

[w2amr]

I figured this is a good question to ask Hams. Who all knows what the Stink Bug is? How many of you are infested with it? I'd like to get an idea how far it is spreading and how to kill it. Virginia is infested with the little buggers..:yuck: We find one in the house every now and then. Don't kill it indoors. Just pick it up with a tissue and take it outside.
http://www.ent.iastate.edu/images/hemiptera/stinkbug/brown_stink_bug_nymph.jpg

[WØTKX]

Many varieties of the stink bug, but you are probably dealing with this one, right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_marmorated_stink_bug

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Brown_marmorated_stink_bug_adult.jpg

This is a recent imported bug, and it's moving north fast with the warmer weather. Does your county have an Agricultural extension service? They are going after fruit and vegetable crops, probably others.
http://www.ehow.com/how_5126114_rid-stink-bugs-home-garden.html

Dad is a retired entomologist and agronomist, I used to work for him in the summers as a kid. Be careful with the use of chemicals. Stink bugs can be killed with chemicals, but they will come back, and they are a hardy bug... so you end up using a LOT of chemicals.. But I'd see what the farmers are doing, and check with local Universities, Virginia Tech is into it. Find the kids that are working on it for their Masters. ;)

[w3bny]

Havent seen one yet here at Fox-Mike18...yet. If not..kitteh will fix in side and Seven dust outside. and if Seven dont work, my 100K Btu propane wand will stop that right quickly!

[NQ6U]

You mean this thing?

http://bossip.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/glenn-beck.jpg?w=504&h=376

[w2amr]

You mean this thing?

http://bossip.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/glenn-beck.jpg?w=504&h=376:rofl:

[kd8dey]

Nobody around here is too worried about them.
My sneakers on the other hand...........

[NQ6U]

Nobody around here is too worried about them.
My sneakers on the other hand...........

They haven't gotten this far west yet. All we have to worry about here are the Killer Bees.

[w3bny]

They haven't gotten this far west yet. All we have to worry about here are the Killer Bees.

I do hear that they make killer honey though.

[W3MIV]

I'd like to get an idea how far it is spreading and how to kill it. Virginia is infested with the little buggers.

Use a bayonet. VA is infested with a lot of other little buggers as well. You might want to check the definition of "bugger" before you run afoul of the VA Morality Police.

[W3WN]

SWPa had a minor infestation problem with them last Fall. Seems as the weather started getting colder, they tried to find refuge wherever they could, and if you had cracks somewhere...

Our house wasn't too bad, some places really got hit. And they're sneaky little devils; I took the flag out to hang up one day, and the underside was covered with them.

For awhile, we were finding 2 or 3 a day. We took turns naming them... John, Paul, George and Ringo, and occasionally Pete & Stuart as well. Didn't kill them, just caught and released.

Haven't had too much of a problem the last few months, mainly now we find corpses. The dead ones stink just as much if you accidentally crush one, so I don't reccomend it.

Like I said, we were OK. Some places got swamped with the suckers though.

[W3MIV]

Didn't kill them, just caught and released.

Pardon my bluntness, but that was certainly stupid.

[n2ize]

Pardon my bluntness, but that was certainly stupid.

I generally try to avoid killing anything also. When bugs get into the house I generally capture them and bring them outdoors. Of course since I'm not a farmer I'm not too worried about my crops. Spiders I generally allow to remain inside. Usually the just find a quiet unused corner somewhere. For a while I had a large spider living under my radiator. And for a while there was a small one living under one of my transmitters. I generally let them stay because they catch flies and mosquitos.

[NQ6U]

I do hear that they make killer honey though.

African bees make more of it than Italian bees, which is how the whole "killer bee" thing got started—some apiarists in South America who were experimenting with African bees. Fortunately, by the time they got this far north, they'd hybridized with the Italian bees enough to take the edge off their attitude. They're still relatively dangerous, though, and you want to be very careful if you come across a hive in the wild.

[W3MIV]

Of course since I'm not a farmer I'm not too worried about my crops.

Go take a look in your refrigerator.

This year is expected to yield a "bumper crop" of stink bugs, all of which are very destructive of farm produce. The predatory wasps that are the only predator to control the imported stink bugs are still being studied and will not likely be released until some time in 2013 or so. Without predators, stink bugs have nothing to worry about except eating anything and everything in sight. Do you know how many eggs a single stink bug can lay?

Not killing stink bugs is not merely stupid, it is criminally irresponsible. Buy big shoes -- clown shoes if you can find them -- and apply them liberally.

[W3WN]

Pardon my bluntness, but that was certainly stupid.Not after you've smelled a couple after crushing them. There's a reason that they're called STINK bugs.

The releases happened in the winter months. Usually below freezing. Must I elaborate?

[n2ize]

I think I encountered a green stink bug once. This green bug came inside and I tried to shoo it outside. I eventually did but not before if emitted a strong odour. I don;t know how to describe it. It was a very pungent and extremely sickly sweet odour.

[n2ize]

Go take a look in your refrigerator.

This year is expected to yield a "bumper crop" of stink bugs, all of which are very destructive of farm produce. The predatory wasps that are the only predator to control the imported stink bugs are still being studied and will not likely be released until some time in 2013 or so. Without predators, stink bugs have nothing to worry about except eating anything and everything in sight. Do you know how many eggs a single stink bug can lay?

Not killing stink bugs is not merely stupid, it is criminally irresponsible. Buy big shoes -- clown shoes if you can find them -- and apply them liberally.

I know. I just don't like killing things. Maybe there aren't enough predators, i.e. birds, bats and stuff.

[W3MIV]

I know. I just don't like killing things. Maybe there aren't enough predators, i.e. birds, bats and stuff.

You either didn't read or didn't comprehend what I posted. "Birds, bats and stuff" do not prey on stink bugs. Nothing but one, solitary wasp the size of a ten-point Garamond comma preys on the imported stink bug. NOTHING else will control them.

[w2amr]

I think I encountered a green stink bug once. This green bug came inside and I tried to shoo it outside. I eventually did but not before if emitted a strong odour. I don;t know how to describe it. It was a very pungent and extremely sickly sweet odour.Are you sure it wasn't one of those homeless guys?

[NQ6U]

Are you sure it wasn't one of those homeless guys?

Or your amateur radio club?

[kd8dey]

They haven't gotten this far west yet. All we have to worry about here are the Killer Bees.

I can send you a mated pair parcel post :)

[n2ize]

Maybe this will do the trick ?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Vespa_mandarinia.jpg

[N9FE]

Here the asian beetles are out numbering the stink bugs 10 to 1. Now that it has warmed up they are out in force !

[W2NAP]

You mean this thing?

http://bossip.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/glenn-beck.jpg?w=504&h=376

lulz

[W2NAP]

Maybe this will do the trick ?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Vespa_mandarinia.jpg

do not like!

[W7XF]

Or your amateur radio club the Medical Malady Net on 75?
Fixed that for you, Carlo!

[X-Rated]

I have never had a stinkbug in the house before. We had them in the crops on the farm in Kansas, but never in the house.

[W3MIV]

I have never had a stinkbug in the house before. We had them in the crops on the farm in Kansas, but never in the house.

If the predictions about their numbers I have been reading are anywhere near accurate, you will have plenty of company this year.

[KK4AMI]

Maybe this will do the trick ?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Vespa_mandarinia.jpg

That bug looks mean enough to be eating nails, but I guess he's just pinned to a board?

[KK4AMI]

If the predictions about their numbers I have been reading are anywhere near accurate, you will have plenty of company this year.

The bugs are really a pain when they get cold and come in your house during the fall. I've been vacuuming them out of the attic and house all winter. Now I'm doing preventative work. I put aluminum screening up on all my attic vents, chimneys and heat pumps. I even caulked every crack where bugs could crawl in.

[X-Rated]

If the predictions about their numbers I have been reading are anywhere near accurate, you will have plenty of company this year.

Like my house was right next to the fields where there were literally millions of stink bugs. They were there, they just were never in the house. But I guess we shall see. Also ....

Link (http://katfarrell.blogspot.com/2011/01/stink-bugs-and-sugar-gliders.html)

Sugar gliders eat stink bugs.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CIRBn1Vfd2w/TOnfbhljYnI/AAAAAAAAAa4/8bO3dffGa5A/s1600/sugar+glider.gif

[N7YA]

Im looking at the picture of these things...where do you hook up the wires? Wheres the paddles? Very confusing bug but ill give it a shot in the pileups.

[W3MIV]

Link (http://katfarrell.blogspot.com/2011/01/stink-bugs-and-sugar-gliders.html)

Sugar gliders eat stink bugs.

Interesting. Perhaps we can arrange for all the stink bugs to emigrate to Oz. The primary pest in view is an import from Asia, anyway, so maybe we can persuade them to pack their stink bags and slink away.

[n2ize]

That bug looks mean enough to be eating nails, but I guess he's just pinned to a board?

It's called the Vespa Mandarina (aka Giant Asian Hornet). You don't want to meet up with one in real life. The sting is nasty. It has been described as feeling like someone drove a red hot nail into your skin. The venom contains a bunch of nasty chemicals including a deadly neurotoxin, a chemical to dissolve and liquefy tissue, a irritant chemical to make the area of the sting more painful, and, best/worst of all, a chemical that attracts more of these guys over to the victim. Not that he needs any help. He is capable of giving his victim multiple stings. In Japan more people die annually from being stung by these guys than all other venomous animals combined (according to Wikipedia)

He's big, he's mean, he doesn't like you, or anybody, and you don't like him. He is nobody's friend.

[WØTKX]

He's big, he's mean, he doesn't like you, or anybody, and you don't like him. He is nobody's friend.

OIC, a successful politician.

[W1GUH]

Man, those stink bugs make my roaches seem downright cuddly!

[W1GUH]

They haven't gotten this far west yet. All we have to worry about here are the Killer Bees.

And black widders.

[N7YA]

Yep, all those...and scorpions, rattlers, and desert recluse. Other than that, just a few game cats but they stay away.

[n2ize]

OIC, a successful politician.

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