But is the second rule Don’t torch the stink bugs?
jpinard
1898
Good point, but every time I have to grab one in a kleenex that’s still alive. Ohhhh gah! Awful squirty smells. So nauseating.
We try to just get them out of the house without killing them.
ddtibbs
1903
Laser guided frops on roombas.
Calelari
1904
Could you train them to spit them out outside? :)
RichVR
1905
This makes me picture a line of frogs marching in and out of his house and the ptoo ptoo sounds outside. XD
No no, not a tongue of a frog… one of these:
- Inspite of it is sticky, it is never like the chewing guns which is glued tightly and cannot be separated.
[…]
- The key point for throwing far away is the same as the throwing of fish rod, i.e. to throw out slowly with full of your strength. Separate it with two hands, then release one hand, throw it with full of your strength.
Stink bugs are much less of a problem than they were a few years ago but we still get them a bit in the fall.
A few days ago I had just sat down with a vodka and tonic and I saw something dark in my drink. I fished out a stink bug. Not wanting to waste alcohol I decided to pretend nothing happened and drink my drink.
cornchip
1908
That’s the right move. The only time you should make a deal out of a bug in your drink is when you’re at a bar, so you can get a free topped-off replacement.
lostcawz
1909
A few years back I made the poor choice of moving to eastern Tennessee (followed a woman…chicks, man). Anyway, she had a house south of Bristol and in early fall the thing became filled with green stink bugs. Like, hundreds per day would get in via tiny windowsill cracks. She was a doctor and did a lot of traveling so didn’t feel the full brunt, but for a couple of weeks I spent literally hours a day vacuuming the fuckers off the walls and ceiling. I tried putting sealing tape on the windows but that didn’t seem to help (it was a massive house with 3 stories). Fuck stink bugs and fuck this thread for making me relive my trauma!
When Stink bugs first appeared on the east coast, we lived in an old non-airtight house. One day I was on the 2nd floor and walked over to a sunny window and there must have been 50 or so of them congregating on the window. That was my first exposure to them so many stinks were experienced before I got rid of all them.
The liqueur Campari is colored with cochineal, which is made from ground-up beetles.
And deer musk is in pretty much every cologne.
If one extracted the essential oil from stink bugs, I just bet trace amounts could be included in liqueurs, in soaps, in scents…hmmmmmm
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