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[fthunt]

@Kachina624 In PA?     Yes, according to Google these bugs were first seen in Northern PA 3 to 5 years ago from Asia.  "THEY" figure stink bugs "jumped ship" containing large industrial equipment and sailed to us.

My first though  (wink) was they came in on QVC orders in Southern PA.

(THEY = the experts)

[x Hedge]

Do you get the light brown shield shaped, or the elongated ones with the red marking? 

                           I get both.  

[SahmIam]

@Kachina624  I'm in Maryland. I know they are in DC and VA as well. Friend of mine was in New Jersey and New York for a business meeting; she lives in San Diego. She called me after arriving at home and asked me if I knew what "this" was: she sent me a picture of a stink bug. Apparently they had crawled into her suitcase via the hotel  and she brought them on the plane back to San Diego with her. She has since seen them year round in her house/at other houses.

They are EVERYWHERE but the East Coast is where they were introduced so they are here in bigger numbers.

[Nonametoday]

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@ScrapHappy wrote:

We have a stink bug problem.  All over my kitchen windows, flying all over.  I called the exterminater company we use and they said they don't have anything to get rid of them and to use a vacuum and suck them up and empty outside.  Anybody know what to do/how to get ride of them.  My daughters birthday pool party is coming up and I don't want these around.  Thanks!

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@ScrapHappy   They are drawn to anything white or plants in the house.  If you can get them to come to something white, you can capture and kill them.  One thing I have done is put garlic in my window ledges inside and they think that stinks and don't come near it.

I have been able to lure them to white Kleenex, gently close it up (don't squish --- that stinks very bad) and put in toilet.  I start flushing as I throw into toilet, so they are flushed before they have time to escape.  

[fthunt]

I see a couple of the elongated ones around but didn't know they were also considered the stink ones.  The round guy = yes.

With all the rain - I'll be putting up my bug zapper soon and hope stinky joins the 'party'.

[Caffeina]

These are boxelder bugs.

http://npic.orst.edu/pest/boxelder.html

[x Hedge]

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@Caffeina wrote:

These are boxelder bugs.

http://npic.orst.edu/pest/boxelder.html

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Good ID @Caffeina .  Thank you. I like to know what I'm stompin' on  😁.

[Kachina624]

@fthunt.  I read somewhere that they came in a shipment of imported goods to Allentown.  The Department of Agriculture is supposed to catch that sort of thing.  Guess they missed one.

[Kachina624]

@SahmIam. Never heard of them being here in NM.  A lot of bugs can't live here because it's so dry.  We don't,  for instance, have fleas and I've not seen a cockroach in the 20 years I've lived here.

[ID2]

I've never heard for sting bugs until I began reading these boards. I've never seen one, smelled one, nothing. Thank goodness I guess.