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[jlkz]

@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.

[Allegheny]

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.

[Azcowgirl]

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.

[jannabelle1]

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!

[staciesmom]

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@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.

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

[hayseed00]

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

[CelticCrafter]

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.

[Mominohio]

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.

[Drythe]

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

[Allegheny]

@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.