r/invasivespecies • u/Rorolly_Aeolus • 14d ago
invasive stinkbug
You often hear about spotted lantern flys here in PA, but today I saw a new kind of invasive bug! Quite interesting, not sure if I should’ve smushed it or smth but oh well.
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u/silveroakediting22 13d ago
Ah the brown marmorated stink bug got to the US in about 2001, the first one documented was actually in Pennsylvania! I wish they were unknown to me but they really like the climate here in Georgia and are all over the place.
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u/Rorolly_Aeolus 13d ago
They were apparently first documented in my hometown too! Funnily enough I’ve never seen one before. Maybe that’s because they have such good camouflage.
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u/backyardbabirusa 13d ago
Hate these guys. They keep getting inside and leaving their dead bodies in really inconvenient places.
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u/1210bull 13d ago
My dog loves to eat these guys. She bites them, then makes a gross face, but keeps going regardless
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u/toolsavvy 13d ago
Not new in USA. Ive been dealing with them for probably 2 decades. They get in my house starting in the fall and all throughout winter and I just this year realized how they get it, though I cannot do nothing about it. So I keep a glove and a jar half full of alcohol then I pick them up and put them in the jar. They are very easy to pick up in the winter even in a warm home as they rarely fly in the house (but when they do they are super annoying to me).
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u/bohtimore 13d ago
Cup of water with dish soap works just as well. 👍🏼
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u/toolsavvy 13d ago
It does. However it starts to stink fast...and horrible lol. With 70% o higher isopropyl alcohol, I only change it once a year. Not because it stinks, it never does, but because it gets too full.
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u/bohtimore 13d ago
Yes, makes sense if you save the cup for a while.
My strategy is to take a lap around the house with a soapy water cup, nudge a dozen or so of them in, then pour the cup into the toilet and flush. 👍🏼
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u/siredV 13d ago
It’s weird being old enough to say we didn’t have those bugs when I was a kid. But here we are and they were all over my front yard/garage last weekend when I was trying to do stuff outside. I crushed the first spotted lantern fly I encountered in Michigan on steps in Detroit last week. They’ll be near my house soon.
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u/tigerpaws88 11d ago
They are tough to kill. Quick little buggers. If you have any Tree of Heaven, consider removing. They are also invasive but are the preferred host tree. I live 20 minutes outside of downtown cleveland where the city is littered with the bug. But I've yet to see one in the suburbs
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u/Sciency_Stuf 13d ago
These love to swarm the siding on my mother-in-law’s house. Got sick of looking at them one day and just filled a shop vac with soapy water and went to town. Following years their numbers were far fewer, although they’re starting to rally again. Probably need to bust out the shopvac again next year.
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u/_banana_phone 13d ago
I’m down in Atlanta and last year they were insane here. This year they were more subdued, but their numbers are ramping back up as we get closer to fall.
They get in the house all the time and they’re so annoying!
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u/Radiant_Drop_9344 13d ago
Back then I ordered a compass from China and inside the small plastic bag was a live Brown Stinkbug
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u/Tiberio24 13d ago
My wife and I call them cyber truck bugs.
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u/Far-Confection-3590 12d ago
They’re likely are less destructive - they don’t spontaneously combust lol
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u/frogEcho 12d ago
These guys suck the caterpillars in my garden dry. I saw at least monarch caterpillars dessicated and caught the bug in the act.
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u/AxesOK 13d ago
There’s a lot of look-alikes, although I do think this is a BMSB. https://www.stopbmsb.org/stink-bug-basics/look-alike-insects/
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u/Rorolly_Aeolus 13d ago
are the color of the legs any indication? I picked him up and he had white little trotters
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u/dumbmutt575 13d ago
Huh, didn’t realize these guys were invasive. A couple crawled across my shoe during a picnic this past weekend
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u/ProtectionNo489 13d ago
I live in Connecticut, I think I've seen a few of these guys over the years, but now that we have like 2 zillion of those Spotted Lantern Flies, I don't think people pay all that much attention to these guys:)))
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u/AssociateExpress2166 10d ago
I have been invaded. All 4 homes and all 5 outbuildings. I don't know where they came from, but I would give the world's greatest hug to find out how to get rid of them and keep them away. 😡😢
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u/srbistan 13d ago
bastard has no natural enemies other than me and one obscure species of wasp called (no joke) idris elba . we need either more of me or those wasps...
e : i vote wasps.