This probably isn't bothering anyone in the West, yet!
But the people in the East are experiencing the beginning of an invasion! Supposedly a freight car delivered these stink bugs from China to Pennsylvania via a port, probably Baltimore.
If you go out side they are all over you and in the cars, they are causing wrecks and wiping out crops so I hear. Right now there are about 30 are more on my front door screen and about 20 or so on my kitchen screen. They are looking for every crack they can crawl into for the Winter.
I bought some stuff from a company called Bayer that is making insecticides now. Southern States says it would kill them but it takes so long you don't know, in other words it is not very effective and has to be used as a contact spray regardless of what they say.
To make matters worse there is now another strain of them coming Eastward, probably be here next year. I'm not crying wolf, yet, but this has the potential and momentum to be extraordinarily bad.
At there present numbers they would have no problem causing SEVERE damage to crops, imagine what it will be like next year after they propagate to UNTOLD numbers and a new strain on the way.
You guys in the West and the East also better start getting letters out to your Governors and the White House asking and demanding what they are going to do about this invasion.
Keep in mind, They have NO NATURAL ENEMIES in this country, birds don't eat them or anything else it seems!
For those that haven't seen the size they are roughly the size of a nickle, some larger some smaller.
I am EXTREMELY sincere about this.
Changeling