I keep getting these especially in my upstairs. They are brown and look like a stinkbug but haven't noticed any smell - they fly and make a fluttering when they do. Shells are kinda hard and they don't crush with a flyswatter. Bug spray at least Raid doesn't affect them either.
What are they and what is a good way to get rid of them?
Sorry the picture isn't great.
Thanks,
Candee
This message was edited Sep 24, 2006 2:39 PM
Can't tell from the picture but it has the form of a buffalo treehopper. Are they green?
No they are brown and believe it is a kind of stink bug but not sure. They hatch from a cocoon, I am finding them nesting in the grooves that my window screens slide up and down in. Quite messy and the bugs are getting in one of the upstairs bedrooms and they don't give up easily.
No they are brown and believe it is a kind of stink bug but not sure. They hatch from a cocoon, I am finding them nesting in the grooves that my window screens slide up and down in. Quite messy and the bugs are getting in one of the upstairs bedrooms and they don't give up easily.
Will try to get a better photo, but of course now that I have killed a few and cleaned out the screen grooves, haven't seen another!
It looks like a bug to me, but bugs don't come out of cocoons. They don't have complete metamorphosis. Beetles come out of pupae, but that doesn't look like a beetle.
It also doesn't look like the usual bugs that do hibrenate - boxelder or golden raintree bugs which have a different shape - but that doesn't mean that it isn't another type of bug that hibrenates.
When I cleaned the window grooves they were full of 'bedding material" depris and there were cocoons and they were well protected with the bedding and the bugs were inside and the parents were lingering around the screens "for protection"?
I live in Spring City, and these beetles/bugs are everywhere..and they bring their friends. Very social, but annoying, and in my house, screens, I even saw them at work too. Losing my mind.
I am sending a differnt picture, hopefully someone can identify, so I can eliminate. Little blurry, hope someone can help.
Those are what I have, stink bugs, several varieties. We just had the exterminator here on Tuesday and haven't seen one alive since!
Candee
I don't like those! I was pulling weeds one day and grabbed one of those with the weed and that thing actually put some sort of sucker in my finger and it hurt! LOL I had to pull it off. Ewww!! http://ipm.ncsu.edu/AG271/soybeans/stink_bugs.html
They can really stink, too, especially if you smush 'em. If I find them indoors in windows I try to sweep them out then vacuum the rest. I read that the adults do over-winter in leaves
I was overrun by these things at French Creek State Park just outside Douglasville/Birdsboro. I've been killing them for the past 3 days as they've found nice homes in my pop-up... under the mattress, in the canvas folds and of course the screens. I've been looking for what this bug is and finally found it here... http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/veg/bean/brown_marmorated_stink_bug.htm
Hope this helps!
Gee wiz, it's gotta be more than coincidence how close some of us live! That link says they were first found in Allentown
They tend to hold up in warm places and especially around those areas with lights and gardens. We had to finally get the exterminator here and haven't seen one since, alive that is.
