Uh, multiple signals, they're closing..

it's not a strong smell

 

my newest weapons to attack them..

One PVP pipe covered with Duct tape on the end,. leaving the sticky part exposed, easy to capture them without killing them, tap over a toilet bowl. flush dead bugs..

One PVP pipe attached to soda bottle with duct tape, place small amount of dishwashing liquid in the bottle.. When the bugs are on the ceiling , place opened end of PVP over them and tap them into the tube, bringing them down into the bottle where they will die in the dishsoap..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKYALsp-sIg"]YouTube - IGGY POP and the STOOGES "search and destroy"

 

They are indeed stinkbugs. You might be able to find some kind of remedy on this site: http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-best-way-to-control-stink-bugs.htm

Most of them will die as the weather gets colder.

 

right now we have box elders and asian beetles.. they are both fucking annoying and everywhere

 

I found an ant crawling around the kitchen today, a few flies here and there...

 

That's what we have too. Happens every year around this time. Box elder are what get annoying. Whenever you step outside, you end up having to pick a bunch out of your hair and off your clothes. Sucks.

 

last year there was a few survivors in my house.....
some the first youtubes i made were stink bugs..

I assumed this in the beginning when killing one, others come to the funeral. I had pill bottles full of them. Im a say its been hot here.. BLAH BLAH when it gets cold.. Nobody can perdict the weather or insect behavior for that matter...

Best weapons I made were these 2 pvc pipe tool , See vacuuming them up attracts more.. get them on the tape, tap then into a bucket with soap or a toilet.

my pvc bottle thing works real good.

 

we got the stink bugs and then these asian tiger mosquitos that are cute as hell but can carry west nile and feed all day (instead of mostly at dusk and night, like most disease-ridden mosquitos)

The asian tiger mosquitos have been a blessing, in some ways though; because dragonflies are a natural predator, and the city has been releasing them by the shitloads to eat them

 

I'm trying to figure out how a load of dragonflies would even be transported. They seem fairly delicate, and if there were too many, I can't see how they could afford to 'box' them all individually.

 

I don't know much about them, except that they look like helicopters and are nearly as cool as praying mantis. :biggrin:

 

They could raise and transport them as nymphs. They are aquatic as nymphs and lay their eggs in water. You transport them in water. When they "hatch" they crawl out of the water onto emerging vegetation or the bank of whatever body of water they live in and split their skins, emerging with wings.

 

Here is an interesting abstract from a book in Japanese about rice cultivation and a species of dragonfly.


Abstract;Influence of difference in cultivation methods of paddy rice on the aquatic organisms was investigated. Cultivation sectors by non chemical fertilizers, reduced pesticides, combination of these two, organic cultivation, and traditional practice (medium dry and full-time flooding) were set up, and number of adult-eclosion individuals of Sympetrum was counted at the respective sector. The number was found remarkably high in the full-time flooding sector compared with that in the medium dry sector. The number did not show much difference between sectors with and without chemical fertilizers. The adult eclosion number was found higher both in organic cultivation sector and reduced pesticide sector than that for the traditional practice sector.

 

The predators of stink bugs are parasitic wasps, other predatory stink bugs, praying mantids, garden spiders and birds, assassin bugs, and ants are predators of stink bugs. These predators get beyond the foul smell and taste of stink bugs. They can be counted on to regard stink bugs as acceptable food sources.

The species in Pennsylvania, the brown marmorated stink bug is vulnerable to two viruses. It also is vulnerable to parasitic wasps that aren't native to the U.S. So researchers and scientists are studying the possibility of introducing these effective biological controls of China and Japan, into the U.S.

 

So far its remarkably bug free around my house, except about a month ago I was over run by fruit flys coming in somehow from the crawl space under the house. My sewer backed up, which attracted them. I fired off one of those foggers though and that cleared them up. But I havent seen alot of the bugs you guys are being plagued by, lots of those copper colored beetles eating the bushes earlier in the summer but not so much now.