How to Get Rid of Stink Bugs
Summary:
Stink bugs are nuisances that will invade homes looking for shelter. There are pesticide products that can help to repel stink bugs and other products that seal up their points of entry. Read more about these products here.

Have small, shield-shaped bugs flown into your house and emitted a gross odor? These insects are called stink bugs because they possess a gland that releases an odor as a means of self-defense. There's nothing like a good dose of “stink” to protect yourself from being eaten by a bird or lizard.
Exterior insecticide treatments to the sides of homes will provide some relief if used properly. The most popular professional products for stink bug control are
Suspend SC,
Demon WP or
Temprid SC. (Click
Here to learn more about Rick's favorite Stink Bug Control products.)These insecticides do provide some residual control of stink bugs but have their limitations.
It's good to know that insecticides break down in sunlight, so the residual effect of the treatment will be shortened and may not have an effect on the bugs much more than several days or a week. Retreating exterior surfaces on a regular basis especially during peak seasons will make these prevention measures more effective.
Remember to always read the product label. If you are uncomfortable applying pesticides or lack the proper equipment you might consider having a licensed pest control operator apply the materials.
Exclusion is the key to avoiding stink bug invasions. Sealing your house by closing doors and windows will help keep them out of your home. If there are cracks in your siding, windows, doors, utility pipes, behind chimneys, or other openings, good quality silicone or silicone-latex caulk will help stop their entry. There are also exclusion products like Xcluder, which is an easy to use material for stuffing cracks and crevices. Replace ripped window and door screens and install screens on attic vents. Inspect entries to crawl spaces to make sure they are properly sealed.
Although stink bugs are primarily pests of crop fields, they can be found in meadows, fields, yards, or gardens and especially those with low shrubs. They are most active from spring through fall, but they usually become house invaders at the beginning of fall when temperatures start to drop. They sometimes hibernate on the outside of some south-facing buildings for warmth, but usually over winter in protected areas under dead weeds, stones, in the bark of trees or in your house.

The stink bug's eggs are yellow, yellow-red, white, or pale green in color and can be found on the underside of leaves in clumps of 20 to 30 eggs. Eggs are only found outdoors on plants because stink bugs cannot reproduce indoors. Thank goodness for small favors. Crop plants are the primary source of food for stink bugs. They typically feed on fruit plants and nuts. They particularly enjoy honeydew, tomatoes, beans, corn, squash, peppers, cabbage, and any type of fruit, using their beaks to pierce and suck plant juice. This activity can cause major damage to gardens. If you discover stink bugs on your plants you can scoop them up using a pill bottle or other small container. This is time consuming, but the containers help you avoid the smell they emit.
Here's the part I know you will hate hearing. You just spent a ton of money installing outdoor lighting to make your home look warm and inviting. Or, you added lighting as a security measure. Well, stink bugs are attracted to light. So, now your house is a beacon that shouts “Come to me all ye stink bugs looking for a home.” Stink bugs are drawn to lights coming from your windows, too. I can't ask you to shutter your windows at night, but closing the shades will help.
For stink bugs that have amassed on walls and ceilings there are foggers, or "bombs" are they are popularly known, that will kill them on contact. Pesticide "bombs" work best on exposed insects, rather than insects hiding deep in cracks. Readily available aerosol-type pyrethrum foggers like PT 565 Plus XLO will knock them down, but the treatment will not prevent more stink bugs from emerging shortly afterwards. The pesticide bombs are advertised to show clouds of pesticides magically spreading throughout the room, getting into every nook and cranny, chasing bugs out of hiding. The reality is the fog rises into the air, then settles back down. You would do a lot better simply doing a thorough inspection and using a vacuum to collect the bugs.
If your home becomes infested with stink bugs, be wary before sucking them into the vacuum cleaner. Squashing them or vacuuming them will usually make the smell worse. Wear gloves if you need to handle stink bugs because their unique beaks are fully capable of biting humans. Although their bites are not harmful, you will feel something similar to a sharp pinprick if you are bitten. Not fun!

Stink bug eggs
Universities are testing traps baited with the known chemical lure (methy 2,4,6-decatrienoate) to monitoring the spread of the stink bug, but it remains to be seen if a strategy of trap and kill can be devised to protect homes from being inundated in the fall. One problem in experimenting with this type of approach is that the compound is not commercially available, so not enough of the compound is available to do large scale experiments. Researchers have their doubts that in areas where there are large numbers of bugs such as near soybean fields at the end of the growing season, that enough bugs can be caught to significantly decrease the number of bugs seeking shelter in buildings.
Okay! You are armed with just enough information to do battle. Go out and fight a good fight!
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The Bag-a-Bug trap will not work for stink bugs. The sex lure is for a totally different insect.
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For those using window ac,,,beware. I had the pull out type unit. Last fall when I pulled out the AC there were hundreds in the window ac.
Also my heat pump was not working. I pulled the outside metal cover off and the stink bugs had lodged themselves between the contact points. Removed them and ac worked,
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All of your suggestions I will try, have you tried hot tap water with dawn dish soap? The hot water stuns em, the dish soap kills. no fuss no smell!
The exterminator is our consideration, we hired for a one time application, knowing that a program is best to control.
Perhaps the exterminator guy on this blog can comment, anyway the active chemical -permichtin has positive results.
The one caveat, it will take 2-4 days to work, the stinkers still will crawl on the house, but it will help. We are set to have the application this week, so I will comment more when I see results, sure there are variables.
18 Aug 2010, 00:34
Controlling? That is something for the government to do. Simply put, the notion that any property owner could control these bugs beyond just cutting down every bit of veggetation they like, painting your home a color they don't like (if there is such a color), or something else I am missing, there truly is no such thing as 'controlling' them on any scale, I assert.
Okay, so we addressed reppelling and control. That leaves KILLING them. I certainly don't have the corner on the market of an exhaustive list of effective BMSB killing/extermination methods. There are many, though, and I want to give you all HOPE.
But, time is of the essence. I am right now designing my own bug zapper specifically catered to attracting BMSB's. It uses WHITE light; incandescent, and 100+ watts, for warmth. BMSB's much prefer white porch lights than MOSQUITO zapper black-lights. They also like white/light colored surfaces. So MY bug zapper is bright. It also doesn't have all the fancy (safety) louvres on the outside which otherwise prevent BMSB's from quickly getting to the anode/cathode and dyinging quickly. I don't want to wine then and dine them and give them a show. Go directly to hell; do not pass go, do not pass silly louvres - go directly to hell. Also, below this zapper will be a large shallow tub of dawn dish soap water to catch those BMSB's who only had there legs blown off and fell straight down, alive. Speaking of which, my anod/cathodes are close (shor gap) so they don't get stuck and clog the gap. But enough on that. More to follow.
You should all be trying to kill them outside NOW while they are still swarming, so they do not have a chance to get under your siding and in your home. The battleground will change soon enough; for now, take the fight outside to them. Flypaper to catch, then dispose of them immediately! Use zappers to dispatch them also. Use any poisons you are comfortable with having on/around your home, but don't exclusively rely on them; their effectiveness is diminished by UV (Sun) light! So every day the sun hits your siding, the permethrin begins to approach useless, although from what I have read, its usefullness is limited anyway, by I digress. This is, afterall, an exterminator site.
Anyway, please have hope, but please act fast and act well. KILL them every chance you get. Good luck and good fighting, friends.
18 Aug 2010, 00:57
I am considering making my own fly (well, BMSB) paper in large sheets to hang by outdoor lights; flypaper while they are swarming seems to be getting so full with them it runs out of room before catching all that show up! Thre are 'recipes' for making your own flypaper; google it if you are a DIY'er kind of person. At any rate, rest assured, if you have BMSB's in your yard/garden/whatever and you are not taking ANY action....well, they are coming for you, soon.
I truly hope that these colleges doing studies on how to deal with BMSB's aren't overlooking the practical steps that can be taken, but I fear they are. They are probably focused on how to engineer a blight on them, render them sterile, or deciding which OTHER biological blight to inflict on us (er, them) to handle the situation. What about just inventing a better 'mouse' trap, so to speak? I guess to the R&D engineer or company that JUMPS on this HUGE monetary oppotunity to quicky corner this market with a (hopefully) effective product, go the spoils. Frankly, I just want all the ones in MY yard, around MY home, dead. I don't care about making it a business venture.
But then again, if my zapper works, I WILL mention it to my local news and WILL market the plans for how to make it (too much liability in it to make/sell them). I thoroughly expect to kill them in the hundreds (per night). Just flypaper alone was catching 40 between 2 small rolls the other night. Now is definitely the time to get while the getting's good....
18 Aug 2010, 09:48
Thank you again for your informative post. While I agree with your plan of action, I too have asked the same questions you outline.
This is an Agricultural problem[s] and WHY aren't steps in place to eradicate if not control the port, e.g. the imports from known offender that bring in the pests?
The fly paper you mentioned, where may I purchase? We are in the panhandle of WV, while only moving here 18 months ago, last fall was an extreme burden dealing with the pests. So I took to the blogs to educate myself, many suggestions work for a time, then its almost like these stinkers think..lol
From reading, many sub species have emerged..and finding them in our home throughout the winter was especially nasty. Considering all the suggestions,
I like you will try anything to kill these invaders.
You are correct about the spray professionals use, and UV's, however, the back of my home has northern exposure, so it is shaded, and that is where most of the activity, at least as a novice [which I would prefer not to have] anything at this point would be welcomed. Not sure moving is a viable option since the pests are on the move, and travelling in cars, trucks as means to invade.
Thank you again for the information, please continue to read/share what success/failure have results, ditto that for myself and others.
Have you contacted your state rep? The problem is growing rapidly, and many are ignoring the pro active steps to facilitate a solution. Please let me know if you develop a diy pseudo bug zapper.
18 Aug 2010, 09:55
Tired of using, employing, lining the pockets of home defense products, and exterminator's.
Consider calling the media to light the fire....Anyone???? on board.
One voice is weak, but the hoard deafening...
Beleagured in WV!!
18 Aug 2010, 12:25
18 Aug 2010, 12:35
Just a thought, since the beetle bag with lures attract, the same principle can be applied to stinkers?
Kill them, place dead in a sealed container, transfer to beetle bags, bait dead ones emit the stink.
Place away from house, I dunno, think I will give this a try.
P.S. I know from reading universities,county extension have experimented with lures... but perhaps the occam's razor principle here?
19 Aug 2010, 09:28
If you give it a try and don't get the results desired, don't be too quick to give up on the concept; might just need to play with the variables. Tighter constriction at the top of the bag, put it in the sunlight to warm the bag(?), etc.
You can buy flypaper at walmart, and should be able to get them at home depot or lowes.
The new media has done stories on the situation but they haven't met the likes of us yet - self motivated and self educated people with the gumption and willingness to speak out. Writing/speaking skilld help, too. I fully intend to contact the media when my zapper is done and fully tested. It will be done this weekend, but it won't be tested for a few weeks, and by then it won't help anyone else this year, but maybe have people thinking about next swarming season.
Don't remove your fruit trees. But maybe put a big commercial zapper (till my variant is commercially available? ;) ) out near them on a pole. As long as you can kill them at night, they might not eat your fruit by day. Of course, if you haven't seen evidence of them getting into the fruit they might not like that type. I think they go for the softer more succulent types of fruit like peaches, tomatoes, etc. Apples might be too 'grainy' and hard skinned? Not sure.
I might try contacting my state reps about this...as soon as other issues with which they have been working with me are dealt with ( ;p ) . I don't want to be hounding them about too many things. :)
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Thank you again for the information.
Some news to report on recommendation's/ experiment.
Per some bloggers reporting success with
hot tap water & Dawn dish soap decided that I would go a step further.
As of today Friday August 20, 2010
everywhere I sprayed the solution the
stinkers stayed away. The ratios that I
used were 1gal of hot tap water- generous couple of squirts of Dawn Dish
soap. So in conclusion at the writing,
not only does the solution kill em, it seems to repel.
While this is only preliminary, I haven't seen any hanging on my entry, i.e. garage, front/back/basement entry.
The downsize - the spray will impede the view from any windows, but it is working. That is one side effect I can live with.
20 Aug 2010, 23:38
So let me get this straight....
Soapy water sprayed all over your house is keeping them away?
Okay, I'd much rather have soap on my house than permethrin. Gonna join costco or sam's club to buy dawn in bulk!
I will also have my BMSB zapper 1st prototype on and in use tomorrow night! This will be fun...
21 Aug 2010, 11:47
YES! Saturday August 21, prelim results as of today are positive~ stinkers staying high up on the house. However, found they are in the trees, shrubs, but not like last [late]Summer/Fall. So far, staying off the entry ways, but it is very hot today. Variables.
Will keep the blog posted if the results continue effectively.
Saturate deck railings, windows and crevices. Make sure to reapply every other day, rain may impact. But the chemical in the dish soap does kill them on contact, actually knocks em down on their backs..then aim..kills almost instantly. You have to make sure you saturate the house as best you can until it drips down siding, and/or whatever surface.
Take special care to get the entry ways
around the home. Limit opening windows on pleasant days.
* fellow train commuter, said he is sealing around window screens with clear silicone, only the windows he wants to open. The results is positive, he found stinkers can not penetrate the silicone. When the season is over he just peels the silicone off.
Oh BTW, our landscaper reports, many homeowners are finding stinkers in the fireplaces, that includes, wood-burning,
direct/no direct vent gas fireplaces.
We have seen them crawling around in ours[direct vent] fireplace,and crawling into our home vis a vie.
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thanks for the advice, I used the dish detergent (same name as mine) and water, did a test sprayed on the back screen door...so far no stink bugs congregating there...I live in Pittsburgh, Pa and these things are out of control...no one can seem to do anything about them, it's like from July through beginning of November being in prison...we cannot open windows, must rush through doors, they are in the car...the other day myself and the kids went through the drive-thru at Mcdonalds, they have bushes right outside the window, the stink bugs beginning flying on and into the car (ruined appetite), now I keep insecticide in the car...they are at all the swimming pools, amusement parks... just everywhere...and I will be contacting my state rep, it just is unbelievable to me that a bug can cause so much trouble, and because the powers that be think they are not a big agricultural threat we should just learn to live with them...what about us...I am sick and tired of these 'things'!!! the only thing I got to look forward to in the summer is hot weather and stink bugs, that's not right.
24 Aug 2010, 12:28
DawntheSBkiller:
You are welcome! We are in this together, last fall 2010 was an extreme eye opener for my family. We moved to the Eastern panhandle of WV and had no idea that such a major problem had developed up and down the eastern seaboard. North and South of the Mason/Dixon!
With that said, we suffered as fools quite the Fall/Winter. Since then, educating and taking to the blogs and reading what folks have used to combat these invaders are rather useful in application. While I try to be environmentally conscientious, using commercial products, i.e. exterminators
chemical compounds is not an option, but a last resort. Sorry Exterminator Guy.
However, if the dawn/hot water solution indicates positive results, then I am all for it.
One other product we are using "Home Defense" purchased the granules to sprinkle around the parameter home foundation. Water in to activate, seems to help along with the dawn/water solution too! Realizing this may ALL be premature results..but Day 5 and no stinkers to be seen, on the house.
Sure they are laying in wait, but the temps here today are highs 72, with night time temp in the 60's. So as the weather fluctuates, only can speculate as to the continued positive results.
Will keep updating the blog, at least weekly.
If you are new here, good to have reinforcements..lol
BMSB Fighter has some excellent information,anxiously awaiting posted results.
Keep up the Resistance...
P.S. Strange today haven't seen a one, always on guard...creepy but a good creepy!
24 Aug 2010, 12:37
24 Aug 2010, 22:18
One got in my bedroom last night through the cracks around my ac window unit. Now Ive had to seal off the ac even though I am here sweating my *ss off. I had the Orkin man spray my house last fall and that did reduce them considerable, but the only problem with that is he has to come back about every two months.
This is so terrible, I am a woman and I live alone so sealing and caulking every open nook and cranny is not something I would even remotely know how to do. I am actually thinking about moving. I feel nervous every single night that another one will get in. I am in Pittsburgh by the way.
25 Aug 2010, 15:38
In the mean time, folks you can buy commercial zappers and get the white-light flourescent buls for them. I don't think they will be as good as incandescent ones like my zapper will have but it will be a start. Also, they will clog up often, whereas mine won't.
I did however buy some YELLOW power saver type bulbs that go in threaded incandescent-type sockets. Apparently people in other countries and in older less-technologically advanced days here in the US, everyone seemed to know that yellow light doesn't attract flying bugs! I feel like an idiot not to have been using yellow outdoor lights all this time. Eegad. So anyway, yes go out and buy yellow outdoor bulbs; the flourescent ones put out less eat to make the same lumens of light as an incandescent bulbs do.
Enjoy. Oh, and since I switced, the spiders are back en force! And yes I had notice that the big spiders we have in the eastern panhandle love to esat baby nymph BMSB's. LOT's of dead nymphs under my porch with their bodies eaten away (we also get preying mantii too, but not nearly as much as spiders).
26 Aug 2010, 00:59
Not that they wouldn't go for BMSB's usually, just I usually have tons of other things flying around my outdoor lights.
The dawn/water solution does seem to be repelling them within reason. A cheap $20 hand-pump sprayer filled and on hand is great for going out midday to spray them and the house.
There are so so many of these BMSB's in the trees and bushes. It's so disgusting! I'm really going to rake up the refuse leaves in the fall this year; it's supposed to get rid of the hibernating ones.
26 Aug 2010, 15:13
still working fairly well.
*side note spraying more, seeing increased activity.
Yesterday Tuesday, dusted my shrubs, sprayed the trees with All Seasons Oil.
For Eastern Panhandle Bloggers et al
Called Senator Byrds office spoke with
Cookie, referred to the interim Senator
Goodwins office. Please call his office directly. Number can be found on internet/google.
We have a satellite Federal USDA office here 304.263.7547 I pressed 6 @ the prompt and spoke with Carla.
Washington DC USDA office 202-224-3954
Federal office of Akins 304-229-5828
Left messages for our local USDA will call back on Monday if I haven't heard.
If anyone is interested in contacting the National/Local Media
Channel 7 on your side main #
703-236-9555 the reporter handling the investigative reports is Steve Cheta
703-236-9555
Please if you can call all of the Federal agencies, your State Rep, and News!
Hope this helps! Will keep everyone updated as I get the information.
FYI Local Dept of Agriculture per Carla,
"nothing is proving to be effective".
In a nutshell, there simply is not enough information either on the Internet or via our government officials.
Get on the phones folks!
26 Aug 2010, 15:17
Thank you for the information, please keep us updated.
Kara, glad the liquid soap/h2o is working for you. Hope you share your results too.
26 Aug 2010, 15:55
Spoke with Daniel @ the transitioning
Senator Goodwin office 202-224-3954
Outlined the problem here with the BMSB
and addressed the various states inundated. Asked WHY our officials have not addressed the problem. No answer other than we respond to constituents by mail.
Not very happy to hear our elected official office response.
Will follow up with News 7 and report back.
FYI Charleston not reporting any problems spoke with Jennifer in Sen. Byrd office outgoing staff.
This is unbelievable, my concern with the increased use in chemicals what is this doing to our Eco. EPA problem????
26 Aug 2010, 19:25
Kara, BE AWARE - that Dawn/water solution *can* actually kill your plants! That is, if you use more than a drop or two per gallon. So I surey hope you didn't kill your nice flowers. Speaking of flowers, my spouse found some person is selling a "how to be rid of stinkbugs forever" type Ebook for like $16 (which I am apprehensive about), and in some of the 'teaser' info given in the advert', he says to get rid of all flowering shrubs around your house - that they are a breeding place for BMSB's and the nymphs will just hop on over on your house easily, which increases your chances of infestation as the nymphs get bigger and as the fall time approaches.
TCB - hey why are you contacting the US Congress reps? I think you want to be contacting the WV Congress members. Try Senator Unger! He's awesome and he DOES jump on the issues and responds personally, via EMAIL. Sorry I don't have his info handy. He's the senator for Berkeley county but not morgan or jefferson, but he will still listen and be an advocate, and if he doesn't, let me know about it!
Okay, that's enough for now. I will soon be posting some all-natural tried and tested and proven concoction recipes I got from a friend with agricultural professor ties in Australia. I just need to get the text into a form I can paste here; it is not copyright protected.
Good fighting!
26 Aug 2010, 19:44
A colleague of mine is married to a Biologist who has studied bugs and he said that his wife explained that the reason that Dawn dish detergent kills bugs (in general) is that bugs eat things with Dawn on them and once they have consumed it, it causes them to ...okay this is the weird part...to poop themself to death! Now, if that is in fact true, that is hilarious on many levels, eh? But really, I'm happy to think that it kills them by suffocation if sprayed on them, but by diarrea if they consume it ;p
Boric acid kills bugs from the inside out that can be coaxed into eating it by mixing it with confectioner's sugar (some ants, cockroaches, etc), by turning from a powder to a liquid acid and dissolving their insides away :D
And diatomaceous earth powder literally mechanically cuts their exoskelaton away and causes them not to be protected from dehydrating.
But boric acid and diatomacceous earth probably are hard to get onto/into BMSB's, especially while they are outside; that's more of a killing method for inside your house, but honestly flypaper in my opinion will be the best method inside (if not an indoor zapper); just hang flypaper under youur lights/lamps this fall/winter if you are getting them inside. It will catch them. They don't want to divebomb or attack you. But they are attracted to light and lightbulb warmth so best to make use of that to your advantage.
Cheers
26 Aug 2010, 19:50
27 Aug 2010, 02:35
-Yellow bulbs to limit flying insects, or no lights on otside if you feel safe and comfortable with that
-Make sure to use opaque blinds/curtains
-Seal your house well: check door and window seal/gasketting
-Fly paper used near lights outside (and later inside after the weather changes if they come inside)
-Foster conditions for spiders to thrive
-Avoid having flowering shrubs and trees right up against your home/porch
-Keep dead leaves raked up and burnt before spring (ideally by the end of fall)
-Use a Dawn dishsoap and water mixture to spray them and your siding during the day
-try to keep mothbballs around your house; if you limit flying insects the spiders will go after the BMSB's
-use bug zappers, with white bulbs
-avoid squishing or upsetting them in or outside your home
-as the weather cools down, don't leave windows and doors open
We can slowly add to the list. The reality is that BMSB's are going to be here for years to come and they will require a change in lifestyle in order to keep our homes free from infestation. Sad but true.
27 Aug 2010, 13:45
Re. the Dawn dish detergent, it definitely helped...48 hours later, there are far fewer SBs than the other day. This weekend we'll be sealing up the house as much as possible and then hoping for the best.
I'm afraid it's true that SBs are here to stay, at least in the near term, and that we are going to have to alter our lifestyles to keep them out of our homes. I used to like to open the windows on cool evenings, but no more. We have a lot of flowers/flowering plants around the outside of the house and on the deck, but I'm just going to have to scale it back in the future. I'm also taking note of which plants SBs prefer and which they seem to be leaving alone.
TCB, thanks for your efforts in trying to draw more attention to these nasty little monsters. Hopefully someone will take notice sooner than later.
Everyone have a great weekend, and good luck!
27 Aug 2010, 18:04
Thank you for the updates.
Tonight heading out instead of enjoying my weekend, shopping for suggested items, ugh. Guess tomorrow will be spent sealing the house, spraying, dusting the trees/shrubs.
Kara, the solution of Dawn/Hot-water I should have stated that I only use on the siding, windows/crevices, deck surface and railings. If you should use on plants/shrubs/trees dilute this per
BMSB fighter suggestions. The ratios I suggested[sorry that I did not elaborate]
are really extra strong.
So that all knows, the solution on day 8
is starting to attract them, not sure that after I kill em, they release the odor and attract more? However, the solution is still positive.
BMSB fighter great list of suggestions,
I am worried by placing a bug zapper in the yard will bring more. The principle in theory I agree will kill em, but perhaps will attract more too?
The dust on the shrubs on day4 shows good results. We cancelled an exterminator, but rescheduled for Sept mid way into the month, per a neighbors recommendation. Neighbors have been in the area for 5 years, said mid September for permethrin, then again early October provided good results last year.
*side note* fellow commuter stated that the clear silicone around the inside screen sealed perfectly to keep SB's outside. Seal only the windows you want to open, per my earlier post up-thread , then peel the caulk off when winter sets in.
Thanks for the information, will post when or if I get any feedback vis a vie tour elected officials, the media.
Good Weekend.
27 Aug 2010, 18:12
some posts are stating sealing the house up, but there are areas around foundation = weep holes for drainage. Sure you guys already know this.
Good Hunting!
Salute
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31 Aug 2010, 00:02
Sorry that I've not had a chance to get together that list of recipes for keeping them off plants. The sad reality is, and as one person noted, they are already into full swarm and seem to be getting beyond nymph stage into young adulthood, so trying to keep them off plants now is past it's usefulness - they've already laid their eggs for the year and they've hatched. Now it's time to fight them off our homes as much as possible.
This really really stinks...pun sadly intended :(
31 Aug 2010, 02:50
then from nowhere a spark...my new 2 story house, along with every stinkbug in or near it burned to the ground ! Now I got NO MORE stinking stink bugs. So far they haven't come down here in the hole. Ahh, peace at last.
31 Aug 2010, 11:45
Update via Channel 7 Washington DC News
Steve C. is out on bereavement leave per my call last week.
This morning spoke with Dan, he stated,"Would pass the information on to their "Editorial Meeting". In short, he took my number, someone would follow up.
Synopsis~ discussed the blogs on the BMSB infestation and the lack of Officials informing the public. Mentioned contacting local State Rep.
and the aloof response. Asked WHY the DEPT of Agricultural/States non-reporting infestation are not providing necessary
options? Explained that people are using mass quantities of chemicals, and what may result in negative eco effects. Finally, WHY isn't their news coverage locally/nationally?
There you have it, will keep the blog updated when I hear a response.
Now not be hypocritical,lol
but for all [especially my fellow West Virginian] "Tractor Supply" sells a product called "Ground Work", active Permethrin. Product is sold ready to spray with garden hose & concentrate. Cost $9.99 for spray $12.99 for concentrate.
side note* over the weekend sealed the outside window screens with clear silicone caulk, we have NOT seen any SB's inside the screens we caulked.
We have not opened any windows on cool evenings to date, watching if the bugs can penetrate, so far not a one inside the screens we sealed!!!
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And, rather than use expensive silicone caulk, we, as pros, use Xcluder, which is also sold on my website.
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31 Aug 2010, 18:09
TCB, good work contacting WJLA...I hope it pays off.
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01 Sep 2010, 14:16
I saw the ones that got away fly into our locust trees. I am going to try the outdoor bug zapper to see if I can get rid of them before they use my house for a winter home.
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01 Sep 2010, 21:36
I REALLY need to get my zapper built!
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02 Sep 2010, 14:17
BMSB fighter in WV--I have had great success freezing and killing them. I use a small plastic container and when I take it out of the freezer, the bugs are on their backs with their little legs in the air. Like a Raid commercial. As a matter of fact, I caught one in the house last winter and put the jar with the bug in it out in the snow. Come spring, he was still dead. So, freezing and flushing works for me.
02 Sep 2010, 20:36
Come late fall and I'm gonna start taking unecessary shrubs/bushes out. And next year I'll be using sprays to kill or repel them from using plantlife in my yard to lay eggs, as much as possible.
02 Sep 2010, 20:42
So the way I see it, in spring the best thing you can do is dust the plants they use for breeding more, then by middle late summer, kill them with zappers, sprays, chemicals, then late summer/early fall be sealing them out and repelling them. I think if you are diligent, you can experience a BMSB-free late fall-early spring. If they only stay outside, the battle is moslty won, I'd say. Mostly.
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