STINKIN' STINK BUGS

grodematers · August 7, 2013

I have brown ones, green ones and the darned leaf footed ones. They are everywhere there is something juicy to stick there straw into. I kill everyone I can catch. They seem to sense me coming now. I'm not really into poisons so I've made a test pouch from tulle fabric.(This is time consuming I might add.) I put the pouch over a nice tomato and so far so good. That is until they lay eggs and the babies get inside the pouch, which seems very possible. I guess I am going to have to build a huge screen room for my tomato patch. Heat, humidity, and bugs. Welcome to Florida I guess.

What are some ways you all deal with stinkbugs ?

hutsondlo · August 7, 2013

This may sound weird, but I actually use a shop vac to suck up those pests. Mornings and evenings they seem a bit slow so I take advantage of that.

Worth1 · August 7, 2013

Some years they are worse that others.

Last year they were all over my San Pedro cactus.
I even sprayed them with Raid and they still kept coming back.

Worth

Dewayne mater · August 7, 2013

My understanding is that brown marmorated (sp?) stink bugs are a non native pest that is virtually unstoppable and anything that could stop them, you would not want anywhere near tomatoes. Hand picking them by knocking them in a bucket of soapy water or vacuuming them is about it. Weirdly, I had 2 years where they were in my back yard by the thousands, probably tens of thousands and they congregated on a grouping of 3 trees and the nearby wood fence and wood pile. I spent 15-20 minutes most nights crushing hundreds of them. There were more than before the next night. It was freaky. Then, for reasons unknown they have no shown up at all the last two years. I have seen 6 or 7 of them on my tomatoes this year that I managed to crush apparently prior to them laying eggs. Hoping I've seen the last of them this year.

They are a major problem pest in the south and probably will expand their territory as far as conditions allow. Bleh.

Dewayne mater

Worth1 · August 7, 2013

One or two bits on a tomato is ok but when the entire tomato is bitten they are worthless.

I think it was 2 or 3 years ago my place was covered in them.
They were everywhere.

Sickening.

Worth

saltmarsh · August 7, 2013

I think I'll try the Biodynamic Farming method with these since nothing else works.

Catch them, burn them, bury the ashes in a cow horn in the garden until Spring.

When Spring comes and the moon and stars and planets are favorably aligned, dig up the cow horn and spread the ashes throughout the garden. Goodbye Mr. Leaf-footed Bug.

Everything in life should be so simple.

Worth1 · August 7, 2013

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Originally Posted by saltmarsh

I think I'll try the Biodynamic Farming method with these since nothing else works.

Catch them, burn them, bury the ashes in a cow horn in the garden until Spring.

When Spring comes and the moon and stars and planets are favorably aligned, dig up the cow horn and spread the ashes throughout the garden. Goodbye Mr. Leaf-footed Bug.

Everything in life should be so simple.

Ive read that if you can find Attila The Huns grave you can grind up one of his bones and spread it around.
They will stay gone forever.

Worth

FaithHopeLove · August 8, 2013

I have them here too and they sure are a royal pain! This is the first year I've had them in my garden, I came home from vacation and there they were!
I've been using a pump sprayer with Dawn and water and it's been killing them, except the adults are harder to kill. I've been going out everyday and now I'm finding about five of them a day. Hopefully I can kill ALL of them, because I'm going to be planting for fall/winter.

August 7, 2013	#1
grodematers Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Tallahassee, FL Posts: 23	STINKIN' STINK BUGS I have brown ones, green ones and the darned leaf footed ones. They are everywhere there is something juicy to stick there straw into. I kill everyone I can catch. They seem to sense me coming now. I'm not really into poisons so I've made a test pouch from tulle fabric.(This is time consuming I might add.) I put the pouch over a nice tomato and so far so good. That is until they lay eggs and the babies get inside the pouch, which seems very possible. I guess I am going to have to build a huge screen room for my tomato patch. Heat, humidity, and bugs. Welcome to Florida I guess. What are some ways you all deal with stinkbugs ?

August 7, 2013	#2
hutsondlo Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Texas Posts: 1	This may sound weird, but I actually use a shop vac to suck up those pests. Mornings and evenings they seem a bit slow so I take advantage of that.

August 7, 2013	#3
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	Some years they are worse that others. Last year they were all over my San Pedro cactus. I even sprayed them with Raid and they still kept coming back. Worth

August 7, 2013	#4
Dewayne mater Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2008 Location: DFW, Texas Posts: 1,212	My understanding is that brown marmorated (sp?) stink bugs are a non native pest that is virtually unstoppable and anything that could stop them, you would not want anywhere near tomatoes. Hand picking them by knocking them in a bucket of soapy water or vacuuming them is about it. Weirdly, I had 2 years where they were in my back yard by the thousands, probably tens of thousands and they congregated on a grouping of 3 trees and the nearby wood fence and wood pile. I spent 15-20 minutes most nights crushing hundreds of them. There were more than before the next night. It was freaky. Then, for reasons unknown they have no shown up at all the last two years. I have seen 6 or 7 of them on my tomatoes this year that I managed to crush apparently prior to them laying eggs. Hoping I've seen the last of them this year. They are a major problem pest in the south and probably will expand their territory as far as conditions allow. Bleh. Dewayne mater

August 7, 2013	#6
saltmarsh Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: 2 miles south of Yoknapatawpha Zone 7b Posts: 662	I think I'll try the Biodynamic Farming method with these since nothing else works. Catch them, burn them, bury the ashes in a cow horn in the garden until Spring. When Spring comes and the moon and stars and planets are favorably aligned, dig up the cow horn and spread the ashes throughout the garden. Goodbye Mr. Leaf-footed Bug. Everything in life should be so simple.

August 8, 2013	#8
FaithHopeLove Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2013 Location: Summerfield, FL Posts: 197	I have them here too and they sure are a royal pain! This is the first year I've had them in my garden, I came home from vacation and there they were! I've been using a pump sprayer with Dawn and water and it's been killing them, except the adults are harder to kill. I've been going out everyday and now I'm finding about five of them a day. Hopefully I can kill ALL of them, because I'm going to be planting for fall/winter.