If you are from the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, you may have noticed by now that Stink Bugs have disappeared. Ants appear to be taking their place. My kids, my wife, my neighbors, the shop keepers and the rest of the Community have started looking around wondering where they went.
At a recent pool party we spent at least 30 minutes talking about where they came from. China? Peru? A Chemical Meth Lab?
They were so strange looking, almost as if they were engineered. They reminded me of a warriors shield. Hmmm.
If they were in fact engineered perhaps they were scheduled to die out and disappear. I guess they served whatever purpose they appeared to accomplish.
Problem now is the ants. Maybe stink bugs were eating the ants which is why we did not see them in the kitchen while the stink bugs were here. The stink bugs were everywhere, Spring, Summer, Winter and Fall. They occassionally few into us, landed on our heads and a few ended up on forks at the wrong time. But what they never did was BITE. A nuiscance they were. The plague NOT. I did happen to change the words to the Passover Seder held in the community and made Stink Bugs one of Pharoah’s plagues. I guess we will have to change the wording back to the original wording.
Maybe I just need to change it to ANTS.
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My kids just saw one lone survivor in the family room. Uh oh!
With regret, I must admit THEY ARE BACK!
Dont think I will ever prove this with repeated testing… A stink bug remained on my driver’s side window until my vehicle reached 45 mph, then it fell off. So, now I know that you can kill them (and most other things) with Hornet and Wasp Spray and you can get them off your car if you drive fast enough.
I slam dunk them as hard as I can at the water in my toilet (seat up) AND THAT SEEMS TO KILL THEIR INNARDS! Twitching and leg kicking (all legs) make them appear to swim, but they soon die. Dont start killing them untill you see atleast 10 in one day. Then wait patiently, as they gather to a central location SNATCH THEM ALL, BEING CAREFUL NOT TO HARM THEM, CARRY THEM TO THE TOILET, LIFT THE SEAT AND SLAM THEM INTO THE WATER AS HARD AS YOU CAN! Flush, repeat if necessary. This works, tried and true my friend.
Sean
Luckily for us, stink bugs aren’t harmful because they do not bite or carry diseases, they’re just annoying! However, they cause tons of destruction to farmers’ crops and they stink when squashed, hence the name. Fortunately they do not lay eggs during the winter and aren’t likely to survive the winter in your heated home. Good luck and hopefully they will leave you alone once and for all!