When Twenty-Six Thousand Stinkbugs Invade Your Home

Re:When Twenty-Six Thousand Stinkbugs Invade Your Home by mhb on Saturday March 10, 2018 @02:32PM (#16559797)

It says that pesticides are not that effective because the stinkbug's long legs keep them from much contact with the pesticide on a surface. Maybe could use pesticide balls with little spikes all over them (like burrs) to make better contact with the stinkbug.

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Re:When Twenty-Six Thousand Stinkbugs Invade Your Home by dredmorbius on Saturday March 10, 2018 @02:55PM (#16559877)

Direct spray onto a collecting surface seems to work fairly well. In my experience, the bugs will congregate on window screens. Spraying them with a weak (1/4 or lower) mix of detergent (Dawn, Trader Joe's handsoap at a 10 shot / litre, or Clearwood & Sage Multi-Purpose Cleaner at 1/4 - 1/8 strength) will kill them in a few minutes.

I've offed 100s per day in this manner.

A screen-based bait / spray station might automate this.

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Re:When Twenty-Six Thousand Stinkbugs Invade Your Home by mhb on Saturday March 10, 2018 @03:15PM (#16559946)

I'm thinking more for crops.

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Re:When Twenty-Six Thousand Stinkbugs Invade Your Home by dredmorbius on Sunday March 11, 2018 @12:13AM (#16561791)

Right. I still think that getting the bugs to the kill-system is probably more effective than getting the kill-system to the bugs. Figuring out how to create bait-and-kill systems that are cheap, abundant, targeted, and effective is probably the best option.

Attractant, kill mechanism (detergent & water), and some way of getting the bugs onto / into / misted by this, is the general formula I'm looking at.

Spray-based pesticides is a move-the-mountain-to-Mohammed approach.

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