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Study: Cold weather may have killed 95% of stink bugs left outside
6wjactv ^ | Feb. 18, 2019 | Travis Gary

Posted on 02/19/2019 9:34:07 AM PST by bgill

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Big meanies who left their pet stink bugs outside in the cold.

Seriously, did our tax dollars pay for this?

1 posted on 02/19/2019 9:34:07 AM PST by bgill
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wish the cold would kill off ticks & Lyme disease


2 posted on 02/19/2019 9:35:09 AM PST by Bob434
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Awesome


3 posted on 02/19/2019 9:36:48 AM PST by TangledUpInBlue
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They’re inside now LOL


4 posted on 02/19/2019 9:37:26 AM PST by headstamp 2
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Winning! I hate those blasted things.

Greenie weenies should be happy, it means less wasteful flushing.


5 posted on 02/19/2019 9:37:39 AM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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Trump’s fault! Impeach! Scandal!


6 posted on 02/19/2019 9:38:54 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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Yep, did it kill all the damn ticks?


7 posted on 02/19/2019 9:39:11 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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However each female stinkbug lays 400 eggs, so the population can be restored to the usual high levels in no time.


8 posted on 02/19/2019 9:40:46 AM PST by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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Finally, some good news.


9 posted on 02/19/2019 9:41:05 AM PST by pepsi_junkie
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In some places around Michigan, the BMSB invasion was worse than the box elder hatch.


10 posted on 02/19/2019 9:41:17 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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BS! The stink bugs were invasive and tried this new place and the normal climate did them in. Also, after a few years, the local food chain figured out how to eat them. Birds don’t just start eating strange things, they slowly decide that new things are edible after assuming first that the bugs might be poisonous. Yes, discrimination as a survival tool!
Amazing how the climate hoaxers will latch on to anything and shape it to their needs.


11 posted on 02/19/2019 9:41:55 AM PST by ArtDodger
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“wish the cold would kill off ticks & Lyme disease”

Some bleeding heart liberal will protest the extinction of this species.


12 posted on 02/19/2019 9:42:27 AM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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The New England Winter of 1979-80 did a very big number on the gypsy moth population. Took about 20 years for the encroach to start creeping North again.

(Thanks to Tufts U. for releasing its samples into the wild in the 1800s after the caterpillars proved unsatisfactory replacements for silk worms.)

13 posted on 02/19/2019 9:44:05 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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This weather is killing lots of ticks. After three years of warm winters, this one was overdue.


14 posted on 02/19/2019 9:47:05 AM PST by centurion316
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Here in NY state, stink bugs are everywhere the past two years.

They are an invasive species from China.

I always imagined that one extreme freeze-thaw cycle in winter, along with local predators learning this new food source - will get them under control.


15 posted on 02/19/2019 9:50:33 AM PST by PGR88
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Seriously, did our tax dollars pay for this?

Probably, and that's a good thing. Stink bugs are a serious invasive agricultural pest. Fortunately, really cold weather is very bad for them.

16 posted on 02/19/2019 9:51:54 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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Damn! Cold weather kills bugs?? I had no frickin’ idea. See? Tax dollars for research projects really, really work!


17 posted on 02/19/2019 9:52:20 AM PST by WKUHilltopper
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I’ve been doing my part by throwing them out into the cold every time I caught one in the house.


18 posted on 02/19/2019 9:54:51 AM PST by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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Who leaves their stink bugs outside in the cold? How inhumane. 8>)


19 posted on 02/19/2019 9:57:24 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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I’m sorry, but I envision a wife asking her husband “don’t forget to bring the stink bugs inside, it’s really cold out”.


20 posted on 02/19/2019 10:00:34 AM PST by Mjaye
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