There are many ways how to get rid of stink bugs without using pesticide. In fact, the use of pesticide should ideally be reserved for being your very last resort, when all other methods at killing them, disposing of them, and preventing new ones from invading your living space, have failed.

Pesticide can have unintended consequences, no matter how safe professional exterminators may claim that they are. Why would you want to spray pesticide in your back yard where your children…

Do you have a lot of trees and shrubs on your property or in the nearby vicinity of your neighborhood? If that is the case, then you may want to consider the fact that one way to get rid of stink bugs would be through small-scale micro-deforestation - which is the process of removing excessive trees and shrubs from your premises. Stink bugs may be lurking in these trees and shrubs, and may even be laying eggs therein. Stink bugs lay their eggs where they remain hidden in plain sight, on the…

Stink bugs get their name because they have the dubious distinction of being one of the rare members of the insect kingdom who emit a foul odor as a deterrent against imminent threats. This odor is used to stave off most predators who try to assault them, not unlike how a skunk might emit its noxious odors when they feel threatened by a marauder looking to hunt them down. It is for this reason, it is believed, that stink bugs do not have any known predators in the wild (unless you…

If you are seeking ways to how to kill stink bugs in your home you have most likely already know just how hard this is to accomplish.

Before you learn how to kill stink bugs it's a good idea to know two ways that people commonly use that are bad ideas.

The very first things people tend to do when they spot a stink bug is to squish it. This actually is a very bad idea and should be avoided. There is a very good…

One of the most effective ways how to kill stink bugs and to keep them from invading your home is to power wash your home regularly. Power washing can achieve a number of desirable outcomes (desirable for you but undesirable for stink bugs):It can eliminate any trace of the odoriferous emanations that previous stink bugs may have released while perched upon the windows of your home. By doing so, you will be able…

There are many different strategies for how to kill stink bugs. Some are more effective than others. And some are more desirable than others. By now, you probably have already figured out that while squashing stink bugs may seem like the most common sense way to deal with them, as you would with any other bug, the reality is that this is probably the least desirable way to deal with them, due to the foul odor that they emanate…

For many years, it was believed that there was no way to control the explosive growth of the stink bug population that has begun to plague the North American continent over the past few years. Each and every year, the population of stink bugs in North America has been rising at an alarming rate. Initially clustered in the northeastern regions of the United States, you can now find stink bugs spread across the entire continent, all the way to the west coast. Carrying their infamously…

The first line of defense against stink bugs is to take the appropriate measures that are necessary in order to keep them from entering into your homes. Millions of homes across the country have played host to stink bugs that have somehow managed invade your house and made a home for themselves within the four walls of your domicile.

Unless you run a farm, where stink bugs pose a very real threat to your crops, you probably do not have a problem with stink bugs when they are outdoors.…

Do you remember the 1999 box-office hit movie “The Matrix” in which mankind’s only hope to win the war against the machines was to use nuclear weaponry to permanently scorch the sky, creating a permanent, massive cloud layer too thick and too dense for adequate sunlight to penetrate, for the robots to be able to draw their solar energy from? Well (spoiler alert), that strategy didn’t work too well and it actually backfired, as the robots learned to quickly adapt, and then enslave the human…

When it comes to trying to figure out what is the best way how to kill stink bugs, very often you will find that a caulking gun can be a man's best friend. Prevention is half the battle when it comes to trying to deal with the threat of a stink bug infestation. It's one thing to deal with the problem of stink bugs once they have already entered your home. But that's only dealing with half the problem. You still…

Seeking new, more efficient, and less repugnant ways of how to kill stink bugs has become a subject of preoccupation for many people across the United States. Although stink bugs have been around on the planet earth for thousands of years, they are a relatively new arrival here in the US. Stink bugs are indigenous to southeastern Asia and are commonplace in the Koreas, Japan, and China. It was not until sometime in the past decade that they were first spotted here on American…

Killing stink bugs can be a challenge, not because it is impossible to catch them, but because those of us who have actually killed them before know that the stench that they emit can be pretty rancid, and is not something you would want to have to deal with again. The smell can get on your skin, on your clothes, your furniture, your sheets, and your walls. So if you want to know how to kill stink bugs, you are going to have to get creative. You are going to have learn to think outside of…

Facts About Stink Bugs:

1. Stink bugs want to come inside the house during the winter.

Have you noticed that the peak season for stink bug infestation problems within domestic households in North America is during the onset of autumn? This is not by mere chance or coincidence. Stink bugs are no different than any other insect or animal that instinctively seeks to escape the harshness of winter either by…

What is the difference between a kamikaze warrior and a stink bug?

Both will swoop down out of the sky to impact an object on the ground, but the only difference is that whereas the kamikaze warrior is willing to die, we wish stink bugs would die.

Indeed, one of the characteristic features of stink bugs is that they sure know how to make an entrance onto the scene: They will swoop down from on high and impact a particular object or surface on the ground, as though they were…

Who would have thought that you could kill stink bugs with something as seemingly innocuous as dish washing detergent! But it is true. It wasn’t exactly discovered in a laboratory. It was not as if some entomologist was running clinical trials with stink bugs in some laboratory somewhere, trying out different chemical agents to see which ones would harm the bugs and which ones wouldn’t.

The use of dish soap to kill…

     I have been looking through this site and have not found a post that is similar to my situation.  I have a 73" television, (my pride and joy).  While watching it the other night, I saw what appeared to be a stinkbug on the screen of the tv.  I walked over to remove it and found that the bug was on the inside of the screen.  This was disheartening, although, I felt that this was not going to be much of a problem.  I was dead wrong.

    As the…

We've been glad that this issue is finally starting to get some attention in the media. Older articles and television segments often ended with a light-hearted "They don't bite, they're harmless, they're just a little nuisance," but now we're seeing more realistic reporting. 

This list is updated regularly, and the stories were selected because they have more than just general stink bug information. Newest are listed first. 

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by John Barry, Site Admin

If your home is infested with stink bugs, you already know how difficult they are to eliminate. This article offers advice for how to deal with the problem.

Stink bugs invade homes and sheds as they look for warm places to hibernate for the winter. There is a two-part method for dealing with stink bugs:



OUTSIDE: Stop stink bugs from coming into…