Stink bug - Page 2

bcday · June 19, 2012

In most of NY the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug doesn't seem to be much of a pest yet. Researchers at Cornell's Hudson Valley Lab would like to map its occurrence and spread in NY and they are asking folks in NY to either email a good pic of a suspected BMSB or ship the actual insect to them for a positive ID (the bug need not be alive, just not smushed beyond recognition, lol). There is a map of confirmed 2010 and 2011 sightings and an address where a pic can be emailed or a captured specimen sent for positive ID at http://hudsonvf.cce.cornell.edu/bmsb1.html

There are also good pics of some look-alike stinkbugs with comments on how to distinguish them from a BMSB at http://hudsonvf.cce.cornell.edu/scou...all%202011.pdf

lakelady · June 19, 2012

Rutgers posted the same thing last year. I mailed in my sample, lol.

Kath, I pretty much do as you...I keep a jar on the porch with dead stinkbugs in it floating in soapy water. Gross, I know but it does work.

livinonfaith · June 20, 2012

Lakelady, I have a similar jar. It just contains hornworms rather than stink bugs.

Yeah, It's pretty gross.

But it beats having them munching on the plants any day!

kath · June 20, 2012

The bugs in the containers aren't too gross unless you leave them in the jars too long.

geeboss · June 21, 2012

Was hoping that they would go some where else this year but just found two small ones on my maters and flicked them into a cup of soapy water.

george

June 19, 2012	#17
lakelady Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: northern NJ zone 6b Posts: 1,862	Rutgers posted the same thing last year. I mailed in my sample, lol. Kath, I pretty much do as you...I keep a jar on the porch with dead stinkbugs in it floating in soapy water. Gross, I know but it does work. __________________ Antoniette

June 19, 2012	#16
bcday Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NY z5 Posts: 1,205	In most of NY the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug doesn't seem to be much of a pest yet. Researchers at Cornell's Hudson Valley Lab would like to map its occurrence and spread in NY and they are asking folks in NY to either email a good pic of a suspected BMSB or ship the actual insect to them for a positive ID (the bug need not be alive, just not smushed beyond recognition, lol). There is a map of confirmed 2010 and 2011 sightings and an address where a pic can be emailed or a captured specimen sent for positive ID at http://hudsonvf.cce.cornell.edu/bmsb1.html There are also good pics of some look-alike stinkbugs with comments on how to distinguish them from a BMSB at http://hudsonvf.cce.cornell.edu/scou...all%202011.pdf

June 20, 2012	#18
livinonfaith Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina Posts: 1,332	Lakelady, I have a similar jar. It just contains hornworms rather than stink bugs. Yeah, It's pretty gross. But it beats having them munching on the plants any day!

June 20, 2012	#19
kath Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: zone 6b, PA Posts: 5,664	The bugs in the containers aren't too gross unless you leave them in the jars too long.

June 21, 2012	#20
geeboss Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Fairfax, VA Z7 Posts: 524	Was hoping that they would go some where else this year but just found two small ones on my maters and flicked them into a cup of soapy water. george