Comments on: Control Stink Bugs – Yes You Can Get Rid of Them

By: Bob The Bugman

Bob The Bugman — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 04:52:00 +0000

soapy water will help control the ones you can see and spray directly, however, it has no residual, so you will have to repeat this everyday during the peak season. Some will die and some will just be really clean Stink Bugs.

A few tablespoons to a quart of water will do if you are going this route. Be sure to add the water and then the dish soap.

By: Bob The Bugman

Bob The Bugman — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 04:45:00 +0000

Talstar Professioanl is the best stuff to use, just be aware that stink bugs are diehard, so it will take a day or two after sprayer before you notice the good results. And you will get good results!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 04:37:00 +0000

You need to spray the outside of the house with Talstar Professional or dragnet insectide. That will stop them! You can get it online at AllPestExpress.com. (local here in Baltimore). Just mix it up and spray around the door frames, window frames and cracks and crevices around the house and foundation, spray some around the window sills and doors inside. mainly on the sunny side of the house. Oh and yes, Stink bugs can pinch you with their mouth parts, rarely though! You can also use a shop vac or old vacuum cleaner to vacuum them up, dead or alive. Empty the bag outside far away from the house and store the vacuum in the shed, not in the house. If you start brushing these things off the house, they will get upset and release the oder glands. Just blast them good with a good insecticide. repeat every 2 weeks until it gets cooler outside. Once the temperature drops they will disappear, but they aren’t gone and will pop back out on a warm late fall or winter day, thinking its spring.

By: Patricia Gigliotti-Kline

Patricia Gigliotti-Kline — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 23:34:00 +0000

I was told to purchase a green product called Orange Guard. You can find it at Whole Foods as well as some Ace Hardware stores. I also read that Melapower 6x (Melaluca laundry detergent) will do the trick. The bugs do not like the orange scent and it smothers them as it coats their hard shell. I will be getting the Orange Guard tonight! Will let you know!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 23:15:00 +0000

Leonard,
Oh my gosh you are so funny!!!!! I am so desperate, I’m ready to go out and buy a few chickens!!!! Have a great day!!

Regards, Val

By: Kathi Iannamico Kaufmann

Kathi Iannamico Kaufmann — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:12:00 +0000

is there an “organic” or eco-friendly insecticide to get rid of them? i haven’t tried soap and water. if they get in the house i squash them. lately they have swarmed, on a daily basis, around my bedroom window. i don’t know why they have chosen that window. i wonder if they would be attracted to fly strips…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:36:00 +0000

I have found that if you spray Raid flea spray around the outside doors and on window screens, it keeps them away so that they don’t come into the house. It does not kill them.

By: Ellen

Ellen — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:19:00 +0000

soap and water work great! put it in a spray bottle and your set to go. i think they are attracted to the color white, the front of out house is tan (which has barely any on it) and the white parts of the porch have thousands (literally) of stinkbugs swarming, so look out and see if you notice white parts of things top have the most stinkbugs on them.

By: Natalie Hudak

Natalie Hudak — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:17:00 +0000

grrrr…gross.

By: Leonard

Leonard — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:41:00 +0000

Chickens take care of the problem My friend just turns her chickens out where the bugs are. Problem solved quickly and the chickens have a marvelous time.