I've had the little suckers crawling around my house all winter just outside of Westminster. I'm with Eric, maybe we can lure them outside and hope they freeze next week.

The stink bugs came from China...why not make China pay the USA to remove them?

We have them in Upperco. My neighbor called the other night to tell me of his pellet stove troubles. The repairman told him that many people are having problems with stink bugs clogging their pellet stove piping.

We have had them all winter in Westminster. They freeze on contact of snow or deck as long as it is cold enough. I witnessed a Carolina Wren eating the frozen ones on our deck, so maybe we have hope that the wrens have developed a taste for the buggers. In regard to China, hey, we are the ones that want the low price of their products, so don't blame them .

These things are a genuine threat to our ecosystems and crops nationwide: http://pestcontrolcenter.com/blog/?p=678

Been finding an occasional one in the house for several weeks -- they seemed pretty lethargic. With the warm weather now I've been seeing more tho. Hope they freeze next week.

Too bad they aren't vulnerable to solar flares -- looks like we will be getting a few more now.

They are back in Clarksville, MD, too. I also saw a Carolina wren tackle one bug last autumn, but not since - our wrens seem to have just returned on the scene, so perhaps they will get some of them!

here's a suggestion to get rid of them use "Talstar Professional",it runs about $30.00 a pint at Southern states,mixes with water 1oz per gallon,safe for indoor use per label,use common sense if you have kids or pets.had none in my house all winter,had millions in the fall b4 i sprayed

FR: A caution for readers from the Maryland Department of Agriculture: "There are no chemical recommendations currently available for home use to control brown marmorated stink bug populations. Because these pests are so difficult to control, there have been situations in which pesticides not intended for residential applications have been improperly used or applied at greater rates than the label allows. While controlling these insects is challenging, consumers should never use, or allow anyone else to use, a pesticide indoors that is intended for outdoor use, as indicated on the label. Using the wrong pesticide or using it incorrectly can cause illness in people and pets. It can also make homes unsafe to live in – and may not solve the pest problem. For heavy infestations outdoors, contact a pest control professional."

They never seemed to leave, here in Westminster. We found at least one a day inside the house, it seems.

Our little stinkers cling to the laundry room screens all summer. If I find them in the house they are given an escort back outside just like crickets, spiders and such. Live and let live. They're not monsters, really.

I am an entomologist with a pest control company, the calls have been coming this week--the warm weather last weekend seemed to stir them up. We are working on an exclusion program to seal them out next fall and some attic treatments (where a large amount overwinter) to get a better handle on this critters.

Until recently, we have been trapping the brown marmorated stink bugs in "death jars" -- a pint jar using one part dishwashing liquid and one part water. The soapy solution dissolves the exoskeleton and kills them instantly. Because the number of crawling pests has increased inside our house in recent weeks, we recently resorted to trapping these bugs with household glue boards. Although not the most humane method for capturing the bugs, the "traps" are working. Most glue boards contain no toxic chemicals or poison, but should be kept out of reach of children and pets.

Holy Halyomorpha halys Batman!

Last Summer we had a MASSIVE spider web on our porch that I considered getting rid of... until I began feeding stinkbugs to the mammoth spider that inhabited it. As soon as they hit his net he would scurry over to them and immediately spin them up. Extremelly satisfying way to get rid of stinkbugs!

My backyard chickens love to eat stink bugs. The nice bonus is that they don't effect the flavor of the eggs. Although folks around us have an issue with the bugs, we haven't had much of a problem at all. Maybe the answer is more people should raise chickens...

The end of the world is surely upon us. We now have to consider "humane" methods of exterminating.....BUGS??? This was a serious post???

What - will we be forced into BUG PURGATORY for ridding our living environment of pests? First we punish animal abusers more harshly then murderers. Now we have to be nice to the bugs? Live and let live? I absolutely, honestly never wanted to believe there were that many insane people living among us. Count me wrong.

The buggers seem to have been wintering in our chimney. With the warmer weather, I was disposing of one every few minutes. I'm going to try a finer mesh at the top of our chimney to keep them out. Anyone else notice them coming into the house this way?

Last summer we had praying mantis hatch outside. Then we found the stink bugs. We caught a couple of the bugs and fed the mantis. They absolutely loved them!

They really can't surf the bowl; flush 'em, forget 'em.

i've got 'em too, and they are indeed gross.
but what i have noticed is that i no longer have, the even grosser, camel/cave crickets under my house. nor do i have ladybugs anymore--and i had them by the bazillions. i wonder does the stinkbug have anything to do with their sudden absence . . .

"For heavy infestations outdoors, contact a pest control professional." Don't waste the time/money...according to the Terminix man that was here for a different problem a couple weeks ago, THEY don't have a solution for them either!

It's like a biblical plague here, in Annapolis!
You spray them with 'Raid' and they turn around and laugh at you!
I want a chemical or device that will KILL them. I'm not looking to be humane, I'm not looking to be ecologically sensitive, I'm not interested in exclusion programs ...I want a death plan and I want it NOW!
I want them all DEAD, and I want them all DEAD NOW!
What are these insidious creatures and how can you kill them?

Here in Lutherville they never went away. They like water. Left doing the backstroke in a pot in th sink. Was still alive the next morning. They don't drown!

Don't put them down the disposal? Why not? From your remarks, it seems the answer must to be obvious, but not to me. Do they continue to stink? That hasn't been my experience. So why shouldn't we "insinkerate" them? Do they, maimed and now mutated into radioactive spiders, crawl back up the sink?

FR: They stink up the joint. At least this one did.

Got them in Hampstead too. One was near my cutting board/knife block this week. The language that I used is not printable in this forum. I usually put them in a plastic sandwich bag in the trash or flush them so that they don't stink.

why would any bug want to come to maryland when we have such rottrn politicians?

The freezing cold didn't seem to do anything to them. They seem to be invulnerable to everything. They never went away, just reduced their inside presence.

Now we have 3-4/day inside (that we actually see), and I imagine that our screens will be covered in a month. I don't get excited anymore, but draw the line when they fly into my hair and face and food.

Science must develop an answer, for the farmers and for the rest of us!

We've had them all winter in west balto co. I scoop them up--now just in my hand--and flush them down the toilet into the septic system. They don't stink that way, and they're gone...but is this safe? Anyone know?

Thanks a lot China. Not only do you cause traffic by driving 40 mph on the beltway, but now you bring us gross bugs.

Get a bright, small lamp and a sealable plastic bowl. At night, fill the bowl with either peaches or raspberries and shine the lamp on it. Turn off all other lights in the house. In the morning, go to your trap, seal the bowl and dispose of the bugs. That's what I'm going to do.

Reporting in from Fallston where thiese little b#@$%$@#S are all over the place. Every time one of my kids sees one I hear "STINKBUG ALERT" and off I go to get another one. I am worried what the spring will bring cause I feel like they never left during the winter.

Our highest daily stink bug "kill" this winter has been 12. They used to freak me out. Now I just scoop them up with a napkin and flush them down the toilet. My husband can usually capture five or six at a time in one napkin, but the most I can tolerate is 2 or so. I'm going to look into the glue board idea. We never had a problem until last summer. Now I think they're here to stay.

I can also recommend Talstar P from personal experience. Application only makes sense when they are entering your home in August/September/October. Heed label warnings, and wash clothes and shower immediately after use.

Is it ok to flush them down the toilet that leads to a septic system? We are in the country. The other day I lost count of the ugly bugs in my house.

there has been a battle between me and these stinkbugs for a year now. These tings are disgusting and I am a clean freak and they are not welcomed here. I usually just put them back outside but that is not helping they just come back in and bring their relatives with them. I now just suck them iup in the vaccum and then dump them on a plastic sealed bag and throw them away when dead. My basement was loaded with them but most of them were dead. Wonder what they eat? My outside plants were loaded with them last year and they ate my planets so I had to throw them away sadly. They are truly taking over. Hope there is a solution soon.

Our exterminator came for his winter visit yesterday and he found that they were entering our house through the chimney. He suggested we replace the screen on top of our chimney with a smaller one that stink bugs can't fit through - hopefully that will keep them out of the house!

Since when did we start worrying about being humane to insects? Kill 'em all is what I say. Stink bugs, that is.

We lucked out this fall and I can't remember seeing any the house, but we left the screens up all fall and winter so maybe that helped. Whatever you do, don't kill them in the house. They're like bees when they die, they release a hormone that other ones can sense and it just attracts more. If you can't find a controlled way to destroy it, just get it back outside. I'm all for live and let live, Ruth, but these things are taking over. They're a non-native species and will destroy any native competitors since they have no natural predator here.

My Jack Russell Terrier loves to eat them... and while the thought of her eating them and the crunch makes my skin crawl - she seems to be taking care of them in our house pretty well.

A quart spray bottle with five tablespoons epsoms salt and 5 drops of Dawn dish washing detergent seems to kill them off. I spray my plants with this concoction since last summer and brought all of my plants in to the sun room and don't have a problem.

If this doesn't work I found a hammer is wonderful tool

Seriously if we don"t have a solution to this pest problem America will see AG prices through the roof in 5 years. So experiement on things that can be sprayed on these critters to kill them and share the solutions with your friends.

A quart spray bottle with five tablespoons epsoms salt and 5 drops of Dawn dish washing detergent seems to kill them off. I spray my plants with this concoction since last summer and brought all of my plants in to the sun room and don't have a problem.

If this doesn't work I found a hammer is wonderful tool

Seriously if we don"t have a solution to this pest problem America will see AG prices through the roof in 5 years. So experiment on things that can be sprayed on these critters to kill them and share the solutions with your friends.

I was eating a wonderful steak dinner the other night when one of the monsters flew into the glass chandelier above the table.
I had to watch the lil' bugger fry slowly from the heat as his emphasized shadow was cast in front of me.
His lil' antenna were screaming "help me; help me". I watched with an evil smile on my face and a wicked laugh between bites. BEST STEAK I EVER HAD!