stinkbugs

[akmnstr]

Anyone infested with these.  Just another in the constant wave of new pest species that are eroding the quality
of our environment. 

Here come the stink bugs...

[Vindingo]

About a week ago, I woke up with one on my stomach in the middle of the night.  In one groggy motion I grabbed it and flung it against the wall.  I heard it buzzing on the floor so I got up and put it in an empty snapple bottle.

I could not sleep the rest of the night because I felt them crawling all over me.  I HATE bugs. 

The lack of bugs was one of my favorite parts about living in San Francisco.   

[Timmy Tucker]

We don't get many stick bugs here in my experience, but the camel crickets are out of make the beast with two backsing control. I found 3-4 daily in my last apt, always in the bathroom.

[spolic]

Oh, there are plenty in the Pacific North West.  Nasty little buggers but I'll say that they are better than earwigs.

[Speedbag]

I could not sleep the rest of the night because I felt them crawling all over me.  I HATE bugs. 

When I was a teenager, I had a basement bedroom. In other lesser-traveled rooms/areas down there you would occasionally run across a big, scary centipede.

One night I was laying on my back, beginning to doze off, and what I can only imagine was the biggest centipede in recorded history made a beeline right across my chest.

I think I flew a foot in the air. I remember it like it was yesterday...

[RAT900]

With all the Bat colonies starting to die off with white nose syndrome

it ought to get interesting to see what changes occur in the insect food-chain


My childhood time in Saudi Arabia exposed me to bugs I still don't like to think about....

[akmnstr]

And with Chytrid causing amphibian extinctions worldwide our natural defenses are diminishing as new exotic pests, like the stink bug, keep coming and they keep coming.  I work for an agency that's job is to manage wildlife but we spend a huge amount of time and money fighting pest, both plants and animals.  Notice on stink bugs came across our network today so I thought I'd see if members of the DML had been infested yet.  I don't thing the public is all that aware of it, but we are fighting a war against pests.  There is no winning and it keeps coming.   

[zooom]

And with Chytrid causing amphibian extinctions worldwide our natural defenses are diminishing as new exotic pests, like the stink bug, keep coming and they keep coming.  I work for an agency that's job is to manage wildlife but we spend a huge amount of time and money fighting pest, both plants and animals.  Notice on stink bugs came across our network today so I thought I'd see if members of the DML had been infested yet.  I don't thing the public is all that aware of it, but we are fighting a war against pests.  There is no winning and it keeps coming.   

between the rapidly rising amounts of stink bugs and the regularity of bedbugs showing up...it seems the pests shall inherit the earth instead of the meek...

[lethe]

between the rapidly rising amounts of stink bugs and the regularity of bedbugs showing up...it seems the pests shall inherit the earth instead of the meek...

nah, we just have to come up with better recipes to cook them with.
I fear no beast as we humans are built to eat anything and everything.

[RAT900]

between the rapidly rising amounts of stink bugs and the regularity of bedbugs showing up...it seems the pests shall inherit the earth instead of the meek...

Maybe it is time to give the Greenlight to Monsanto again on DDT production

[lethe]

Maybe it is time to give the Greenlight to Monsanto again on DDT production

isn't Charlie Sheen's blood the modern equivalent?
We need to clone the man in massive quantities and set them loose upon the pests.

[RAT900]

isn't Charlie Sheen's blood the modern equivalent?
We need to clone the man in massive quantities and set them loose upon the pests.

[akmnstr]

Maybe it is time to give the Greenlight to Monsanto again on DDT production

We learned are lesson that last time we tried that.  But we do us a lot of different chemicals now.  More specialized and less toxic.  But the enemy keeps coming up with new defenses and there are always new species.  

[RAT900]

We learned are lesson that last time we tried that.  But we do us a lot of different chemicals now.  More specialized and less toxic.  But the enemy keeps coming up with new defenses and there are always new species.  

Back in the 1970's a lot of folks in NYC were getting pet iguana's to consume the cockroaches in their apartments...it was a relatively short-lived fad since the iguanas died in fairly short-order from all the poisons in the roaches

[fastwin]

When I was a little kid my family had a west TX ranch (but we lived in BigD) and I was trained to always shake out your shoes before putting them on in the morning because scorpions loved shoes for some odd reason. No one had to tell me twice. There were also BIG ASS bumble bees that colonized in the ground... unlike your normal bee nest in trees. One time I was walking behind my Dad when I was about 5. We were headed toward the barn and I was stomping along like a little kid does. Well I successfully pissed off a whole colony of bumble bees and they immediately knew who to go after! I probably could have out sprinted Usain Bolt that day. My Dad couldn't even catch me as I ran screaming my ass off and getting the shit stung out of me! Guess I wore the bees out or they all lost their stingers in me. Bastards. 50+ years later I still vividly remember that day. Hurt like a son of a pregnant dog. Thankfully I wasn't allergic or it would have killed me.

OK... back to stinkbugs. And yes we have those too. Appropriately named critters!