Stink Bugs! (2013, house, buy)

[OneTrickNet]

Is anyone else having problems with stink bugs entering their homes? Apparently my house is just awesome and these guys want to crash here.

Particularly these:
Brown marmorated stink bug - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[lorilove]

Stink bugs have been on the rise

Stink Bugs On The Rise In The U.S.

I had a few last year but it has been several months since I have seen any

[HeyEng]

Yep. I hear a couple every other night buzzing around the lamps. They don't really do anything, so I let 'em fly around until the die..and then, well, they don't stink.

We live in a heavily wooded area, so I just expect it in the winter. They should be going back outside here before too long.

[AnsleyPark]

Just don't smush 'em!

[residinghere2007]

Yes I have had huge issues with them and the black and red beetle bugs at my house.

You should never smash them - it will attract more of them to your house. You also need to ensure that all your cracks and crevices are sealed.

FWIW, most insecticides don't kill them. They are literally superbugs. I read online that a nicotine spray will kill them and I have had some success with that (take a pack of cigarettes - I hadn't bought any in like 20 years when back in the day I could buy them for my mom with a note lol - then soak the cigs overnight in a gallon of water and then pour the water into a spray bottle and spray the suckers to kill them).

They are drawn here due to the epidemic of kudzu. They eat the kudzu and unfortunately the abandoned properties near my house have vegetation overgrown with kudzu and it attracts the stink bugs like crazy. We have really sealed up our house. My daughter is deathly afraid of all bugs for some reason and last time I cleaned her room I noticed there was a slight bend in her screen. Under the window was her toy box and there literally were 50 bugs in there that had climbed through that little crack in the screen!! We were going through her toys to give unused ones to Goodwill and she nearly fainted lol. I had to flush them all down the toilet as I didn't know about the nicotine spray at the time.

The bugs will overtake your house and come back every year if you don't ensure they can't get in and they are at my house in all seasons but they get extra active mostly in the fall. This was November when we went through the toys, something I do prior to Christmas every year and they were actually on all our windows and doors trying to get in from October through December. Now I see more of the black and red bugs (I think they are called elder bugs). They don't stink but they stain. Luckily due to the sealings they cannot get in either.