Here's to a healthier plant crop this coming summer!!
Less bugs....less spraying....less $$$ spent.... G.
They're Back - Brown Marmorated Stink Bugs Fall 2012
The bugs I find in the house must be awfully dried out after the long winter most I've killed have very little smell, to the point I readily just swat them. Zero escape. Unfortunately the extreme cold probably will also effect the number of predatory insects as well, which I've noticed was on the rise.
You can build your own trap to catch Stink bugs---and there is NO chemicals involved...
You need an empty, 2L Soda bottle--a small LED light and some tape.
The light attracts the bugs and thy dive intot he bottle--but cannot get back out.
Works best in dark places so they can go for the light. Gita
http://handymanbill.hubpages.com/hub/Stink-Bug-Trap
Hmm, yet another good use for those LED tealights... I wonder if that would attract mosquitoes, also -- maybe at night?
Jill-
I think sally posted somewhere, recently about the different "baits" to
put in these bottles to catch different bugs.
Like--putrid, smelly stuff to catch flies.....she even uses her dog's feces...
Forgot what mosquitoes needed.... G.
critter, do you have mosquitoes swarming your porch lights at night? I don't.
One idea was to use yeast and sugar to make CO2 in the bottle to draw skeeters. I can't say how well it works.
I've found almost no BMSB this summer. I did find two juvenile stink bugs but I have a lot of squash plants, they could be regular squash bugs
I've seen very few this season 1 or 2, is all. I'm hoping many of the dormant adults bit the dust last winter. Sort'a like the year we had a late hard freeze at the height of the Gypsy moth infestations, that wiped out enough emerging cats from the eggs that numbers were so reduced that damage that year wasn't too bad. It does seem I am seeing more predatory bugs and wasps this year.
Fingers crossed that the predators stepped up and took care of this problem bug
Haven't seen any stink bugs here thankfully--but more predatory bugs and wasps, too!
I had 100s here when the weather started getting warm, but I'm only seeing a few now. I wouldn't mind them so much if they were just outside, but these things have been in the house in large quantities for several years. Yuck... No easy way to exterminate them either.
I have seen 3 so far, all pretty small. As Ric pointed out, probably some of them didn't make it through last winter.
I've saw a baby one this past weekend but that was the first one I've seen. We have an exterminator come out to our house 4 times a year and that seems to really cut down on them in the house.