Stink bugs

A week or 2 or 3 ago someone on here posted about having a bad infestation of the stinkers . I was wandering where they were at . My wife works at a packaging plant and unloads trucks and they got in two differant trucks that the crates were full of stink bugs . They closed them up and sent them back . They had come from somewhere in Tenn.

Back of the house faces south, and since I cut corn, they've been hunting for a new home. They were all over the place, and seemed to know right where the back door (of course, the one we use all the time) is. We hav etried making traps, buyong traps, spraying and a whole bunch of tricks. Nothing seems to pphase the little buggers. But, SWMBO has come up with a fairly good trap. She cut the hole and front top part of a gallon milk jug out, and put about an inch of soap and water in the jug. Armed with a flyswatter for a prod, we walk around, place the jug against the wall and under them, and they love to jump in to go swimming. They sometimes need to be coaxed some with the flyswatter, or shoved along a railing or flat structure, but as soon as they reach the edge, they, too, jump right into the jug. We can catch more with that rig than all the traps we set out in less than an hour. It only took a couple of days, and the population has been greatly decreased. Really have to look for them now. Now, if I could just figure out how to sell them to the greenies as health food......

We have them in northern Indiana and the colder it gets, the more they try to get inside. As for your wife opening a couple of crates infeste with them, I see that as a problem. I hear these commercials all of the time these days about not moving firewood from area to area because of some sort of asian beetle imported fro China heavily into at least Cook County, IL, that are killing trees left and right. A perfect sort of warfare from China for the conspiracy theorists like me, where they send insects over that kill off everything. My point is, wherever your wife works had crates loaded with stink bugs, and who knows what else gets spread that way. Ticks? Heck, we northern Indiana guys imported some sort of beetle decades ago from Japan or China that resembles Ladybugs, but trust me, they aint Ladybugs and they are real pests that bite. They were supposed to eat aphids and the like, but got way out of control, multiply millions times faster than rabbits, now are everywhere, and now can usually be found in parts of the house facing the northwest. Never should have done that.

I'm not usually a complainer, but it raises possibilities. Someone oughta slap me for complaining tonight though.

Mark

We are in S.E. Indiana . We have the Ladybugs also , They dont freeze out , nothing eats them [ they will ruin a cup of coffee ] they just multiply . The only thing that will thin them out is starvation . We are also loosing alot of trees to bugs . You have to wander what all gets shipped around the world in those crates .

SLAAP, quit yer whining.

Thanks, I needed that. Ahhhh.

Mark