These bugs are very aptly named
- Laura Moore: Housebroken
- April 30, 2024
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Stink bugs are not native to our country. They just arrived with a load of fruit imported into this country. It didn’t take long for them to reproduce and spread all over our country.
Stink bugs don’t have many predators, which their name might explain. In the last week, I have found three crawling across the floors in my place. My dog saw them too, sniffed, then left them alone. Afraid to stomp on them, I picked them up very carefully and flushed
them down the toilet.
Today I found two more of them, one in the kitchen and the other in a bathroom. Where are they coming from? Very carefully, I have sprayed the bottoms of the front and rear
doors hoping that prevents any more of those bugs crawling inside when we go in or out of those doors.
Perhaps they are hiding in some of the potted plants I’ve had to move back inside when we’ve had a cold snap. No matter how they arrive, they are not welcome. We even watched a few birds on our driveway totally avoid a couple of those bugs crawling right by them. Obviously, those bugs are repellent to our local birds or to the ones who ignored them crawling on our driveway.
Surely, there are some creatures that have a limited sense of smell that would gobble up those bugs. Perhaps spiders would find them tasty? Can’t say I’m very fond of spiders, but they certainly don’t stink.
My neighbor says stink bugs are all in her gardens, so they are probably in ours too. Because those stinky creatures have no mouths or teeth, they suck the juices out of the fruits and vegetables they like, so the bug repellent I put in our gardens was not worth the effort. So we have come to the conclusion those stink bugs are here to stay.
Oh no, here comes another one down the hallway floor. Run!