Posted on 01/17/2011 10:49:04 AM PST by Red Badger
The globular stink bug eats kudzu but it also invades homes in great numbers and smells bad if squashed. It's become widespread in Georgia and now Auburn University scientists have found it in eastern Alabama. They expect it to spread quickly across the state.
Come on over to Mississippi. I might be able to reclaim the mobile home......
It seems like a good time to invest in the pesticide business unless the rats decide to confiscate the profits of this industry.
They should make up some Bean-O for bugs.. look like a fat tick.. bet they make a mess when ya squush ‘em
Thanks are due to FDR, for saving the South by spreading kudzu vines all over it. It was one of his famous programs to bring the country out of the Great Depression.
The results of unintended consequences. Don’t mess with Mother Nature.
Stink bugs have been bad here in NC this year. I’ve found the best way to get rid of them in the house without causing a stink is to triple up a paper towel, grab the sucker and stuff it and the towel into a zip lock baggie.
A neighbor keeps his garage door open all the time and found an infestation of them on the window screens. His brilliant idea was to suck them up with a shop-vac which stunk up the garage so bad it seeped into the house and his wife blew a gasket.
"Kudzu-eating bugs are known carriers of rabies, dysentery and botulism"
I love that show!..............
Ship a big ‘ol batch to NYC and maybe they can put an end to the bed bug infestation. Package it in pouches with the label, “Put some funk in your bunk!”
Ugly little thing, isn’t it?
We’re battling box elder bugs and Asian lady beetles at the moment. They came in last fall and I’ve been vacuuming the little buggers ever since. The Asian bugs stink and it’s worse if you squash them.
The box elder tree is coming down when the weather breaks. So are any others we may happen to find on our property. As well as the invasive olives the boneheads at the DNR planted.
I WONDERED where all those defeated Dimocraps headed.
Massachusetts would have been a better choice.
They were in Southwestern PA with a vengeance this past summer. I’m still getting them. My sis’ house is full of them. Oh, summer is going to be something.
wonder how they got here..................
Iknow this is all Sarah Palins fault.
I’ll trade you 50 million popcorn trees................
ROTF!
Don’t invest, buy stock now. So many good insecticides were banned by the EPA, and I’m sure there are others destined for removal soon.
In some cases natural remedies just don’t work.
What do they smell like?
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