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Stinkbugs!

staciesmom — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 19:25:25 GMT

Anyone else battling them? All of a sudden we have swarms.

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docsgirl — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 19:30:17 GMT

I don't know where you reside, but I'm in Norheast Ohio and we have them. They are disgusting. YUK!!! docsgirl

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itsmagic — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 19:30:36 GMT

Me too! I hate them. I have my hand vac handy at all times to vacuum them up as they walk across the floor.

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ValuSkr — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 19:38:22 GMT

Thay haven't been bad this year in SE PA. I might have caught one inside the house but that's all. Maybe it's not cold enough yet and the worst is yet to come.

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staciesmom — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 19:40:26 GMT

@docsgirl wrote:
I don't know where you reside, but I'm in Norheast Ohio and we have them. They are disgusting. YUK!!! docsgirl

I'm in Northeast Ohio too! I opened the sliding glass door in our livingroom and there were dozens up in the track. UGH

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SilleeMee — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 20:37:02 GMT

No, not stink bugs but earwigs! I hate them.

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LTT1 — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 20:46:13 GMT

Ewwww! 🐜 🐛 🕷

you all are grossing me out!

Snd making me feel itchy!

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fthunt — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 21:13:42 GMT

Seeing only once in awhile but had more in the Spring. Glad they are easy to catch - don't buzz around - don't fly much - just crawls slowly. I grab with paper towel and flush down the toilet. I've heard they can crawl out of "T" if you just throw them in. I've never smelled anything - perhaps I don't squeeze to kill - - off to the toilet....flush....bye.

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Dusty1 — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 21:14:30 GMT

Must be an OH thing. They are so nasty. All over my doors & if I open the front door for the dogs to go out, they come zooming in.

My youngest grandson gently lifts them up & carries them around, so they don't ever stink on him. He thinks they are great.

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Azcowgirl — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 21:20:46 GMT

Ugh.....remembering the smell turns my stomach😩

we bought a darling log home in Colorado years ago, and when we moved in, discovered it was infested with them. Luckily we were able to get rid of them.

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jlkz — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 21:45:46 GMT

@Azcowgirl

Exactly how did you get rid of them ?

A few years ago, they arrived once the weather got cold. Seemed to come down from the attic in our rancher. I could see them crawll down the window track.

I started to keep track of how many I scooped up with a piece of bathroom tissue and then flushed away. One day it got up to 20 !!

Our Pest Control service had a special program to spray twice at the start of their entry season. It just slowly reduced the count: they kept coming.

Then we got new next door neighbors who cut down the extremely tall, thin evergreen trees on the property line. That really got rid of the majority of them. A few every so often I can handle and dispatch in the bathroom.

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Allegheny — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 22:09:48 GMT

SW PA. Yes they're here also starting about two weeks ago. Over the past few years they had tapered off drastically. This is the most we've seen in a long time.

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Azcowgirl — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 22:40:54 GMT

Hi @jlkz....

Strangely, we didn’t do anything special other than killing

every last one inside and out that we could see until winter set in, and the next fall, only saw a few.

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jannabelle1 — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 23:00:21 GMT

Thank you for helping me identify those nasty bugs that we've had inside all summer and fall. I had no idea what they were, but just looked them up and identified it's the same thing we have. Ugly darn bugs....We don't have swarms of them, but I continue to see a couple of them most days, so I "capture" them in a tissue and throw in the trash. I guess I'll start flushing them!

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staciesmom — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 23:01:24 GMT

@Allegheny wrote:
SW PA. Yes they're here also starting about two weeks ago. Over the past few years they had tapered off drastically. This is the most we've seen in a long time.

Same. Don't remember them being this bad last year.

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hayseed00 — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 18:52:32 GMT

I live in Western New York and have noticed that there is a large amount of them everywhere !!!!

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CelticCrafter — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 19:02:04 GMT

We never got them until maybe 5 years ago and then it's only one or two.

I knew enough not to squish them and I do like another poster, grab them with a piece of TP and flush them.

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Mominohio — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 19:03:04 GMT

Central Ohio here, and we are having one of the worst years in quite some time at my house.

We live with a huge woods around us and a big pond, so our bug situation of any type will most likely be worse than many others even in the same area of the state.

Seems every year is "the year of the ______". Some years it is bees, some ladybugs, some flies, some spiders. It kind of comes in cycles.

But yes the stink bugs are quite prolific here this year! Luckily 98% are just staying outside on the screens.

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Drythe — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 19:08:42 GMT

Not yet, but I’m sure they are on the way!

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Allegheny — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 20:55:19 GMT

@Mominohio

"Seems every year is "the year of the ______". Some years it is bees, some ladybugs, some flies, some spiders. It kind of comes in cycles."

That is so true.