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Stink bugs (Halyomorpha halyscauses) are an invasive pest in the US that have caused a lot of crop damage. In the home they are annoyances. We have to deal with them on a daily basis. If they are squished or pissed off they emit a strong odor, hence their name. In the video link below a man has devised a simple stink bug trap. It consists of a light in a metal can with hole the light can shine through, covered with Duck Tape (sticky side out) to catch the bugs.
I don't have any interest in this product other seeing if I can get one with the hope it actually works. - AC
Infested!: Love for stinkbugs
Network: Animal Planet
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Here is another site that suggests calling a professional exterminator along additional controls:
For inside the home:
Seal Your House Properly
The best preventive measure in this regard is to keep them off your home in the first place. Remove foliage, weeds and other attractive flowers from the perimeters of your home. Then check your house thoroughly to ensure there are no cracks or holes left in any entry point. Put curtains on your doors as well as windows and check that they do not have any crack. Normally, cracks on doors, windows, utility pipes, behind chimneys, or underneath wood fascia allow stink bugs to enter your home. Having found any crack, seal them with caulk or other relevant material. While taking this preventive measure keep in mind that stink bugs mostly start invading homes during the close of fall.
Deter Stink Bugs Outside Of Your Home
Draw a defensive border outside your home with the help of chemical sprays. Since stink bugs have strong shields, organic sprays do not eliminate them in an effective manner; they rather turn them into woozy state for a short span of time. So it is much better to spray cypermethrin, a synthetic insecticide in the surroundings of your home. It is a potent nerve poison that lasts on inert surfaces for a longer period of time. Moreover, use spreader sticker while adding it to the spray mix to help increase the coverage of the chemical on the surface and to slow down chemical residue loss.
Use The Weapon Of Vacuum Cleaners*
When stink bugs take advantage of loophole and enter the house, the best possible way to get rid of them is to use vacuum cleaners. You can suck up stink bugs through the vacuum hose. Once you have collected the entire stink bugs population present in your home, seal the bag immediately and dispose them off somewhere far away from your home. It is so because their foul smell can invite other stink bugs to your home.
Use Water Detergent
Since stink bugs cannot live in water, using soap solution will prove result-oriented. Soap solution in fact penetrates into their shield and causes them to die in no time. What you have to do is mix water with liquid detergent using equal quantity and spray it on individual bugs. Although it is time-consuming yet it is cost-effective and result oriented.
For in the garden:
The best way to contain them in gardens is to attract parasitic wasps to kill them as this method is very realistic and well approved for their reduction. On the other hand, the use of chemical may reduce stink bugs but at the cost of damaging beneficial parasites that are essential for better growth of plants. So far no perfect method has been introduced to control them in gardens....
*Vacuuming them up will cause them to emit their stink but we do it anyway to get rid of the pests. We do not use pesticides to control them. I am not advocating the use of pesticides, however, they are an option. - AC
I don't have any interest in this product other seeing if I can get one with the hope it actually works. - AC
Infested!: Love for stinkbugs
Network: Animal Planet
******
Here is another site that suggests calling a professional exterminator along additional controls:
For inside the home:
Seal Your House Properly
The best preventive measure in this regard is to keep them off your home in the first place. Remove foliage, weeds and other attractive flowers from the perimeters of your home. Then check your house thoroughly to ensure there are no cracks or holes left in any entry point. Put curtains on your doors as well as windows and check that they do not have any crack. Normally, cracks on doors, windows, utility pipes, behind chimneys, or underneath wood fascia allow stink bugs to enter your home. Having found any crack, seal them with caulk or other relevant material. While taking this preventive measure keep in mind that stink bugs mostly start invading homes during the close of fall.
Deter Stink Bugs Outside Of Your Home
Draw a defensive border outside your home with the help of chemical sprays. Since stink bugs have strong shields, organic sprays do not eliminate them in an effective manner; they rather turn them into woozy state for a short span of time. So it is much better to spray cypermethrin, a synthetic insecticide in the surroundings of your home. It is a potent nerve poison that lasts on inert surfaces for a longer period of time. Moreover, use spreader sticker while adding it to the spray mix to help increase the coverage of the chemical on the surface and to slow down chemical residue loss.
Use The Weapon Of Vacuum Cleaners*
When stink bugs take advantage of loophole and enter the house, the best possible way to get rid of them is to use vacuum cleaners. You can suck up stink bugs through the vacuum hose. Once you have collected the entire stink bugs population present in your home, seal the bag immediately and dispose them off somewhere far away from your home. It is so because their foul smell can invite other stink bugs to your home.
Use Water Detergent
Since stink bugs cannot live in water, using soap solution will prove result-oriented. Soap solution in fact penetrates into their shield and causes them to die in no time. What you have to do is mix water with liquid detergent using equal quantity and spray it on individual bugs. Although it is time-consuming yet it is cost-effective and result oriented.
For in the garden:
The best way to contain them in gardens is to attract parasitic wasps to kill them as this method is very realistic and well approved for their reduction. On the other hand, the use of chemical may reduce stink bugs but at the cost of damaging beneficial parasites that are essential for better growth of plants. So far no perfect method has been introduced to control them in gardens....
*Vacuuming them up will cause them to emit their stink but we do it anyway to get rid of the pests. We do not use pesticides to control them. I am not advocating the use of pesticides, however, they are an option. - AC