My First Stinkbug

The picture is beautiful. He looks jeweled.

Sorry, I have no experience with stink bugs - do stink when you kill them?

OP - Pennsylvania?

They only stink when you crush them and.or when they die.

If you only see a few you're fine, however they can get as plentiful as other summer bugs and then you are fucked.

I get them year round. they love LOVE to live in air conditioner units. when I take the units out of the windows for the winter I clean them out but I inevitably have a couple show up throughout the winter. they don't actually stink that I have noticed. maybe it's only certain ones? we do get beetles that smell like pine when you kill them because they eat pine.

They stink when you crush them.

You can get 120 bells for that sucker.

R6 What does that mean?

I have crushed them though and didn't notice a smell. they don't bother my dogs either, both my dogs will eat one.

I liked mine!

rescue-chick, R4, you kill beetles?

Wow.

I feel rather bad, like when I found out Santa Claus wasn’t real.

R2, I’m in Connecticut. New country boy from the city.

Last summer I got so excited with you about the bunnies in my yard. This year it’s stinkbugs.

haha r10! I do take out bees, wasps etc but kill mosquitoes, stinkbugs, those pest moths and spiders (because i am terrified of spiders).

I do put out pans of water with resting rocks in them for frogs and bees and bunnies during drought.

so, yes Virginia, there is a santa-claus!

They are annoying sometimes because they fly around the room you’re in and will not infrequently crash straight the fuck into you. To me it’s sufficiently irritating that I cup them then flush them.

They’re invaders from Asia and, Hun-like, they sweep down on crops doing massive damage. Kill the little fuckers without mercy.

Frau cunt thread.

THEY FLY??

the fat ones have little tiny mobility scooters r15

You never forget your first, OP.

True story:

This is the Man-Faced Stinkbug. Look at this BDF!

Help. Can anyone re-size this image to fit?

One hot stinkbug top. One hot stinkbug bottom.

Look closely. Who will you choose, Burt or Ernie?

Stinkbug was my nickname as a little girl

In Taxco, Mexico, there's a festival when the stinkbugs are in swarm. They eat 'em, cooked and raw.

[quote]So far, no stink.

OP, if you handle them carelessly between your fingers so that they become alarmed (without harming it), they will discharge, and you'll be able to smell the characteristic odor on your fingers. Some think it smells a little like cilantro.

“Found him crawling across my iPad about half an hour ago.“

OP, you type stank.

[quote] The picture is beautiful. He looks jeweled.

What a great description, r1. His is a look of sophistication.

I see glimpses of a genius medieval tapestry design when i look closely. Do you see that? Who does that?

Stinkbugs. The simple, doddering stinkbug. He’s the guy with the overpacked suitcase with only three working wheels. He pushes. He spins. He heads toward any light, he is faithful. He believes in goodness and being steadfast, and honorable. He perseveres.

He’s the guy who walks off a cliff because he thought it was a curb.

He’s the one taking a half hour with the menu, with coke-bottle lenses, mistaking a napkin for the tablecloth at his lap. All because Lasik never called.

Prior to his murder by the Rescue-Chick Gang @ r4, Stinkbug was a volunteer Gentleman for thirty years on Roller Skate Night at the Italian American Club of Mahopac. He would skate with all and anyone who appeared to be lonesome or alone. With six legs, he was digging deep in his pockets to rent all those skates every Wednesday. He never complained.

Gasp. I yield the floor.

R4, step away from the Rosy Maple Moth.

Step away and we’ll forget any of this happened.