Stink Bug Invasion Marches on Chicago Area

NBC CHICAGO ^ | 3 Oct 2017 | Lauren Petty

[DUMBGRUNT]

The creepy crawlers are brown marmorated stink bugs. If you’re seeing them now get ready.

He says stink bugs came to North America 20 years ago from Asia.

If one gets inside “squishing them is going to cause more problems than it helps,” That’s because stink bugs, when squashed, release a smelly fluid that can stain

If you haven’t seen or smelled one yet--just wait.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Damn aliens! Build the wall!

Just say no to Halyomorpha halys!!!

[ptsal]

...attracted to Democrats, right?

[Angels27]

Baraq and The Mooch are back in town?

[BBQToadRibs]

“He says stink bugs came to North America 20 years ago from Asia.”

We had the 45+ years ago in Iowa as a kid. My sister and I would twist a towel into a rat tail and snap those things like a whip.

[bar sin·is·ter]

They invaded from the West Side.

[DUMBGRUNT]

I do recall them.
And they were associated with a certain type of tree???

IIRC they were about 3/4 inch long and 1/4 inch wide?

Not wide and squat like the lastest Asian invaders?

[Bonemaker]

The Chicago area is already overrun with stink humans. We call them democrats.

[NorthMountain]

“squishing them is going to cause more problems than it helps,”

If by ones and twos, squish them inside a Kleenex or paper towel. If by the dozens or hundreds, break out the shop-vac.

[z3n]

Unless you have an airtight house with great seals on on the doors and windows, they will find their way in.

Cheap traps:
Cut the top off a two liter bottle, but inside one of those push button LED lights, and push the top of the two liter bottle down inside with the neck pointing toward. Turn the lights on at night in dark rooms. Those stinkers are attracted to the light and fall down the bottle neck like a slick funnel. They can't figure out how to fly or climb back out.

This works.
I've made them.

[tomkat]

Box Elder bugs ?

[Robert A Cook PE]

How could they tell?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

We have the same bugs here but they are green. I remember the smell as a kid picking blackberries. We always ended up with a few in the bucket.

[lee martell]

They look like a form of Beetle, protected with a hard, wide outer shell or carapace.

[tomkat]

             

Pick 'em up with a kleenex and flush 'em down the toilet.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Much less of a problem than the jamoke and the moose.

No traffic jams for a bogus motorcade.
Downtown parking does not go to code red because zero wants to walk down the street for a photo op.

Stink bug? Spray Raid and check in the morning.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Box Elder bugs ?

YES!
Thank you!

I believe we used to also call them stink bugs???

[neefer]

Been collecting them in a mason jar then feeding them to the chickens.

[tomkat]

             

[DUMBGRUNT]

Beats my plan of a bunch of frogs.

[RedMonqey]

That was a different variety. These are Asian bugs. We had “stink bugs” in Tennessee back in the early seventies. Used to kill them with a large butcher knife I used to cut the squash with. Wiped it in the dirt, then my pants legs after killing them.