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.
What do they smell like?
He wasn’t the first person to do that. You can vacuum them when they are long dead though. Their dry grey carcasses litter my attic.
And when you have 1000's everywhere and they've completely clogged the bathroom vent, then what?