Same here in WV, can't even open a door. Billions on the house and in the trees. We used to have boxelder bugs but I think the stinkbugs ate them.
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Same here in WV, can't even open a door. Billions on the house and in the trees. We used to have boxelder bugs but I think the stinkbugs ate them.
LOL!:groner: LOL! I'm sorry, but I just couldn't help but laugh!
I've lived in Pennsylvania all my life, now more than 51 years, and can remember stink bugs from when I was young. Quite often when picking and eating raspberries or blackberries I would experience the bad taste, and KNOW that a stink bug had been there.
The current "outbreak" of stink bugs seemed to appear in 2007 or so, and seems to have gotten worse. They seem to be attracted to warm surfaces in the fall, and will try to get inside. I hate 'em, and the cats back off from 'em when they get a sniff.
Prior to these stinkin' &@$#*^)$ we had box elder bugs, but at least they don't stink....lady bugs either! I don't have the lady bug problem(Cumberland County), but have seen it. The box elder bugs seem to be under control for now.
Weren't the lady bugs released to eat something else?
I live in Pittsburgh and they are bad here. I heard you can mix Borax and water very strong with a little dawn dishwashing liquid in a spray bottle and it will kil them pretty fast gonna be trying it this weekend.
Andy
(Weren't the lady bugs released to eat something else?
Yes and I hope they EAT the people that released them.
In the west you can buy them for aphid problems and release them during the year. AIRC they come in a fridge pack of around 500.
Asian Stinkbug. Lots of exotic species getting introduced in the US lately. Few natural predators, and most do well. EPA is sometimes very slow getting pesticide labels updated to allow them to be dealt with legaly.
As for Bayer, Bayer has produced drugs, pesticides, and other chemicals for almost 100 years. They're the Aspirin people...
Ask and ye shall recieve:
Despite their name, stink bugs are actually one of the most delectable of insects. Here they add a unique favor to a traditional pâté.
1/3 pound roasted stink bugs
10 chicken livers
4 cloves garlic
1 small onion
1/8 teaspoon salt
Black pepper, to taste
Oregano, to taste
Marjoram, to taste
Powdered bouillon, to taste
Olive oil, to taste
Place the chicken livers in a saucepan with the garlic, onion, salt, and enough water to cover. Bring to a boil and simmer for 10 minutes.
Remove the chicken livers and place in a blender or food processor, reserving the broth. Add the roasted stink bugs and about 1/4 cup of the reserved broth and puree, adding more broth as needed, until mixture is smooth and reaches a spread able consistency. Add spices and oil to taste. Place in a wooden bowl and serve with crusty French bread.
Read more: Stink Bug Pâté (Insects) http://www.globalgourmet.com/food/sp...#ixzz0zv0OGi6C
Stink Bug Salsa: Every year, people living near Taxco, Mexico, catch stink bugs to make a special treat. First, the bugs are toasted to get rid of their stinky smell. Next they're ground up and put into salsa, a spicy sauce. (The stink bugs taste like sesame seeds.) Then the people grab their tostados (corn chips), spread them with salsa, and chow down.
Shooter I don't like jumping the gun so to speak (As everyone knows), but you are so dam full of it (stink bugs) it's pitiful, If this is some kind of "Culinary fascination" you have for the exotic things our planet has to offer I surely hope I never bend over in your presence whether there are taco chips/potato chips/corn chips/ are shooter chips accompanying your "Fiesta"!
The mere thought of chowing down on anything that remotely resembles or smells like a stink bug tells me you would get on great with the cuisine of Cambodia/Bangkok and several other places I won't mention.
But then again management here wants us to hug our neighbor and not be sarcastic towards what they think/like/or believe in so if I can drop out anything you like, just let me know, I'll be glad to send you all you can handle, see how polite I am!;-)
Changling, you missed the part of roasting them . . . it removes the stink somehow . . . Try it you may like it! (My wife tried Rattle Snake tonight!)
I like them toasted---in my lead pot! :bigsmyl2:
It is by the garage window that is old, things crawl in and there is always a bunch in the pot. Good flux when I turn it on.
I hear nothing but chickens will eat them. So much for fried yard strollers!
We've had the kind that look like ladybugs around here for years. They infiltrate into the house and cluster up in out of the way corners for the winter. Over the last couple of years they don't seem to be around as much. What is very persistent though, is Japanese beetles that land all over rose bushes and eat them to death. To keep flowers on the bush in the summer, you have to spray the heck out of the bushes about every other day. I have shaken bunches of these off my flowers, into one hand, and given them a round of applause--but that only gets rid of a few of them. They are worse than the stink bugs by far.
we have them here bad. have been spraying them with hand soap. and cleaning them up with our rainbow.
we were out at an flea market a guy had some pet skunks. he said they ate all the bugs in his house the skunks love them.
I found out that skunks liked them today, but I haven't seen a skunk around here in a couple months.
Something here is happening that I don't like. Saturday I must have sprayed and killed 5000 at least. The were 2 inches deep when I cleaned them off my front stoop!
This morning there was only about 100 or so there dead! So, something has to be eating them and with all that poison in them whatever it is can't be doing to well.
Also man do they stink up a vacuum cleaner, if you vacuum up a big batch make sure you change the filter and put it OUTSIDE in the trash right then and there.
Stinkbugs, snakehead fish, malanine in our dog food, lead in our kids toys. We are under a Chinese attack!!:bigsmyl2:
Now do these rascals get inside the walls of your house and breed?
Like Box Elder beetles.
Damned hard to get rid of.