[quote]The stink bugs are back.
"They're there," said John Steele, 49, a technician at Evey True Value Hardware in Bethel Park. "I thought they left, but they're back, and they seem bigger than they were last year."
Mr. Steele returned to his home in South Park on Tuesday night and said it looked like "someone took a shotgun and pepper sprayed the back of the house." He estimated that about 200 stink bugs were clinging to the white aluminum siding of his home.
"Yesterday was the worst I've seen in about a year," he said.
It's the time of year, in Pennsylvania and many other states, when the brown marmorated stink bug begins to flee from crop fields and wood lots and look for a place to spend the winter, said John Tooker, an assistant professor of entomology and an extension specialist at Penn State.
"They are trying to find a happy little spot," he said.
But happiness for a stink bug often means a headache for us.
Andrew Amrhein, owner of Evey Hardware, said he had sold 200 units of stink bug traps or spray in just the past 24 hours.
"It's been crazy the past couple of days," he said. One customer told Mr. Amrhein he had 4,000 to 5,000 stink bugs in his home already, and another customer had up to 500.
"They are just anxious to find ways to get rid of them, and or at least keep them out of the house," he said.
The increase in stink bug activity could continue for several more weeks, said Tracy Leskey, a research entomologist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service and a co-leader of a brown marmorated stink bug working group.
"We've seen across many locations this year that the populations are up significantly over where they were in the fall of 2011," said Ms. Leskey, who is seeing "plenty" of stink bugs at her home in Kearneysville, W.Va.
The stink bug, which is not native to North America, was first observed in 1998 in Allentown, Pa., according to a fact sheet created by Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.
The stink bugs were out in full force in 2010, but the population seemed smaller in the fall of 2011, perhaps due in part to late tropical storms, Ms. Leskey said.
This year, however, they seem to be back in a big way.[/quote]
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I come home late in the day to find them clinging to my walls, its disgusting.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_marmorated_stink_bug[/url]
For anyone who doesn't know what they are.
Yeah, I have noticed more of them around here recently. They don't really bother me if I don't bother them, so I don't really care.
Obligatory, "that stinks" comment.
I dont care, they burn up in my medusa lamp.
Theres currently a graveyard of them in those lamp heads.
And thanks to my cats attempting to attack them through the screen door, can't go a day without finding them chilling out on the walls.
Bastards, they don't even say thank you.
This is news? They've been swarming my area for months. Little shits can't even fly, you constantly hear them THUNK off of the walls.
I can confirm there being more than usual for at least parts of Tennessee. Fuckers are everywhere.
Lots of them around here, There are always one or two crawling around my window. My killcount must be near triple-digits by now.
We sealed the front door and can't open any windows its so bad here. They manage to get through the screens of our brand new windows, and fly in the front door whenever we open it.
It is fucking annoying.
Oh, so that's what those things are.
Those bastards have been invading our bathroom for weeks. Everytime I close the window, someone else opens it, and they come back in. Oh well, they don't bother me, and I don't bother them. If my housemates are bothered, then they can deal with it, or stop opening the window.
[editline]3rd October 2012[/editline]
Luckily even though they manage to evade screens, they haven't been getting through the crevice between my air conditioner and the window frame.
I remember insects similair to those but green. I liked catching them when on vacation in France and feeding them little bits of fruit. Never imagined them becoming such a pest somewhere else.
[QUOTE=Flicky;37899118]This is news? They've been swarming my area for months. [/QUOTE]
just because you know about something doesn't mean the rest of the world does
The one bedroom in my house always had a stinkbug problem, but now they are everywhere. I can go to any window or door to the outside in the house and find at least 2 hanging off them.
They aren't particularly bothersome, just ridiculous in quantity.
They are all over the front of my house, they already found a way into the house somewhere...
From Greensburg, Pa
It was kinda hot and humid for October today - these bastards are everywhere trying to get in my house.
I never had a stink bug stink.
Be grateful you don't get plagued by midges like we often do here in the UK.
They swarm me in summer, none here right now though. Thank god.
that sucks
So THOSE were the things that were everywhere on campus.
Foreign insects are really nothing anyone should take lightly. Ever hear of the Emerald Ash Borer, or the Asian Longhorn Beetle? The Ash borer is well on it's way to wiping out huge portions of the US Ash tree population while the Asian Longhorn is wrecking havoc on the rest of the nation's trees.
To make matters worse, they might be introducing a predatory wasp to reduce the problem a bit in 2013. [B]Wasps[/B]. :suicide:
I never wanted to open my windows anyway.
Yep, I live in NE US. My friend's house has them everywhere.
I don't find them annoying at all, unless you hear one buzzing around your room when you're trying to sleep, and even then, that only happened to me once. I haven't smelled them either, from what I've experienced.
I live in New Hampshire and I only see a few a year, only one so far this year
You haven't experienced hell until you've had a swarm of Palmetto Bugs invade your area. When I lived in coastal North Carolina we got them all the time, especially since the river was nearby and any rain would send them fleeing indoors. They're essentially giant versions of German Cockroaches.
I hate when they get inside and fly into a lamp...over and over again. That clinking sound makes my skin crawl.
I hate it when I get out of the shower on a dark morning and I'm drying myself off and I nearly shit myself when the thing pops out of nowhere and slams itself into the little light above my toilet.
Fucking shits.
No wonder they're from Allentown, Allentown is pretty smelly and terrible.
You have to step on them for them to stink. Just think of it as a turd with a thin glass casing, once you step on it and break the seal the stank releases
You guys are just okay with these things everywhere? I don't know what it's like, so I can't imagine, but I fucking hate insects.
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