How to recognize a stink bug and get rid of a pest?
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The stink bug is an insect that is widespread in Russia. Most often it can be found near ponds, and during the breeding season this bug can even be in your apartment. But it is not a parasite for humans, so when it is detected, you should not raise a panic in the search for an insecticide. It is enough just to throw it out the window and it will not return again.
How to recognize
The stink bug, it is woody, is painted in light green. The chitinous cover carefully hides the insect from enemies among the foliage and in the summer it is quite difficult to detect it with the naked eye. With the onset of autumn, the leaves change their shade, starting to play in saturated warm tones, and the bug does not lag behind - its shell acquires a brown hue and gives the insect the opportunity to further mask.
The tree bug has a rounded body shape with protrusions on both sides. This structural feature is characteristic of insects of the family of insects. The chitinous cover is quite hard, it serves as a protection against external influences. At the end of the back you can see folded wings that peek out from under the green shell and have a brown color.
Young hatching from eggs practically does not differ from adult individuals in their color and shape - they have the same light green cover and oval body. The only difference is the lack of wings. They appear only after the young individual reaches puberty. During this period, the larva manages to 5 times discard the old shell, which from time to time becomes too tight, and ultimately the body length can reach 15 mm.
Interesting fact! Not all larvae that have been born reach puberty. Most of them die, as some lack the strength to get out of the carapace during molting.
Features of existence
A green bug hibernates under the litter of fallen leaves. He digs deep beneath her and stiffens. Spring for him is a time of awakening. At this time of year, adults begin to mate and breed.
Despite the fact that adults still have wings, they are rarely used. This is due to the fact that it is very difficult for an insect to fly into the air due to its small span and insignificant lifting force. Therefore, it takes off only when it is sure that in front of it there is a rich meal.
The characteristic smell and damage to agricultural land are the main reasons why many disliked this insect. The bug gradually destroys the plants on which it is hiding, sucking out all the juice from its stem.
Interesting fact! For large shrubs, this insect is almost harmless. Only small brown spots on the leaves will indicate that there was a shield bug.
The stink bug is not too fastidious in food. He can eat the juice of many plants, tree leaves, grass, cereals and berries are suitable for him, especially he loves raspberries. In some cases, this parasite can be saturated even with the remains of insects that it finds under fallen leaves.
The characteristic smell of a bug
Wood bugs have a very strong sense of smell and smell their tribesmen by smell. And he begins to exude aroma when he feels the approach of danger.
On the back of the thyroid cephalothorax are special glands with odorous liquid, which he repels potential enemies. For other insects, it is a poison and can paralyze and even kill, but the bug itself can not suffer from it.
Why is this insect dangerous?
Since the main food of the green bug is plant juices, among which there are cultural plantings, it poses a serious threat to agriculture. Settling on seedlings, the insect begins to suck out liquid from them and after a while the plant loses its ability to bear fruit and dies. Bedbugs are able to destroy entire fields, causing huge losses to their owners.
After saturation, a tree bug injects saliva with a high poison content into the plant. This is what affects the quick death of a seedling. They always parasitize on those plants on which they lay their eggs. The average number of eggs laid reaches 40, but this value may vary depending on the type of insect.
In agriculture, stinks are poisoned with various toxic compounds, on which they quickly acquire immunity. In connection with this circumstance, manufacturers of insecticides are forced to constantly create new chemicals that will protect the fields from pests.
How to get rid of a shield bug?
In rural areas, stink bugs quite often fly into residential buildings. This may be due to several circumstances:
- wildfire;
- sharp cooling;
- gust.
As you know, these insects are absolutely harmless to humans, but despite this, not everyone agrees to tolerate the presence of a "fragrant" guest in their apartment. And then the search for a means to destroy it begins.
Another thing is garden plots filled with bugs, for which these parasites pose a serious threat. There can be several methods of struggle.
- If in your garden a small number of stink bugs was detected, then they can be collected manually. Undoubtedly, this is not entirely convenient, since they are successfully masked, completely merging with the foliage. In addition, you will not be able to collect the eggs laid by the females, and after a short period of time the invasion will resume.
- Folk recipes can give a slightly better result, and their composition is absolutely harmless to humans. In financial terms, they are much more affordable than chemicals, and anyone can cook them in a short period of time;
- peel the onion in such a quantity that 200 g of husk is obtained. Pour it with 10 liters of hot water and insist for 5 days. Strain the resulting infusion and spray it onto the plants infected with bedbugs using a spray gun. The procedure is repeated 2-3 times a day, every 5 days;
- Dissolve 100 g of dry mustard in 500 ml of hot water. Stir and add another 9.5 liters of water. Using a spray gun, spray the mixture onto the plants;
- at different points in the garden to plant a plant called black cohosh, which is a very effective repeller for all types of bugs, including shield bugs.
- With a large number of tree bugs, industrial insecticides such as Chlorophos, Karbofos, Phosphamide should be used. They are quite effective against pests of crops, but they must be used carefully, putting on personal protective equipment.
To date, the stink bug has not yet been included in the list of dangerous insects, so there are no insecticides whose action is aimed at the destruction of this particular species. For a person, he also poses no threat. Be prudent and begin to exterminate insects only when their numbers begin to increase rapidly and pose a real threat to your garden plot.
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Of course, I completely agree that bed bugs do no harm to humans, but for some reason this year in my house THERE ARE VERY MUCH. They are already like my friends: I “dress, put on shoes, go to bed, go to the toilet”, etc., etc. We have been living in the house for 8 years, and this is the first year such an invasion. It seems to me that some link in the biological chain has fallen. Perhaps earlier in our city in the Imereti Lowland of Sochi some birds stopped, which reduced the number of bugs. Of course there are a lot of them, not only from me, but throughout the city. It’s worth considering. I want to believe that it will get colder, and they will disappear; but we have a warm climate, winters may not exist Now I understand that you can’t do without poisons, but I don’t want to ... I’m for a natural cycle ......
Yes, a disaster with them this year in Sochi!
This year I’m resting in Sochi and there is no passage from these bugs (this is disgusting! They fly even to the 20th floor! How interesting they are to crawl there and why ??? Disaster! There is something to do with this! There are some services!
Vacationers are in shock!
All summer and autumn he fought with them with a vacuum cleaner. Chemistry does not help. Lattices on the windows do not save. You kill one come to the aid of a hundred. What happened to nature? The first time is ...
Killed the phrase: "the invasion of bugs in a residential building is impossible" ...... Come to Sochi, look at the impossible. For 2 months I’ve been walking away from them, neither in the house, nor in the yard, nor even in the car ...
This year in Sochi, these bugs are everywhere, no mesh can save, they just climb through it. For the evening I collect at least 10 pcs. and still remain in those places where not to get. In the courtyard I do not see them but in their house heaps. What to do?
I rest in Sochi, in the Sochi sanatorium of the same name in December 2015. And now in Sochi there was an invasion of forest bugs. I got a bug in my jeans, I put on jeans and ran for treatment and suddenly an unpleasant burning sensation. Until I ran to the medical building, until I found the bug and removed it, it took about 5 minutes. I went through the procedure and all the while felt uncomfortable, and in the room I found two spots with a small coin. One spot is a bruise and the other is bright rust. For five days there are no traces of a bite and poison, which allocated a bug. The spot is sore and itchy. In the inter HETE nothing of the sort found.
I totally agree with all the authors. I have a place in Georgia in Batumi called Cape Verde, this is near the famous botanical garden. So this year there really was an invasion of them in the apartment. All winter and spring I ran around with them with a vacuum cleaner. I did it three hundred times. the place where they were not in the house In the wardrobe bed in all the drawers with papers with utensils and even in the refrigerator I met them twice Just psychosis came like an invasion of locusts True they don’t bite, but it’s unpleasant to get used to them someday You’re crawling and you accidentally squeeze it and it’s stinky on the bed. Of course, they were in incredible quantities at all the neighbors. But I have a sunny side and they probably go into the window cracks and I think from the attic because all the time the gin from the bottle appeared on the ceiling Over the evening 20 pieces, you’ll definitely catch it, and tenacious devils just barely have enough of them. Well, when I read the reviews in Sochi, this happens and the city services don’t fight what to say about us. The truth is full of greenery and you don’t spray everything. I wanted to ask if someone hadn’t tried the curtains Are mosquito nets to sprinkle something that they are not crawling TC from the outside there is no sense in us through the day it rains, I trieddichlorvos to spray but nothing helps, but I won’t spray chemistry in the cabinets and drawers. It just seems to me that something needs to be spread or sprayed on the glass around them and how to breathe ourselves. In winter, we also open the windows when the sun. Even mosquito nets do not save, really they don’t there are such sealed windows there are wooden cracks Well, now it’s summer and it seems like they are gone or I caught them all but it’s not visible especially I ask someone to advise how in the fall when the cold starts to protect against them
Dd! I have the same problem! I live in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The invasion of these bugs this year for the first time this summer for the first time ... the family has been catching, but I hate insects, I'm terribly afraid ... recently they collected half a liter cans, they still do not end (It's just awful ... even if there’s no they do not pose a threat to humans, yet it’s not very pleasant! I feel I’ll go crazy soon, just a critical situation! Therefore, please, if anyone knows the way to get them out, please share !!!
He put on his helmet and this American stink turned out to be under it. I felt a pungent smell and quite a strong burning sensation in my hair exactly at the place where the bug released the secretion of his gland. He immediately rinsed his head with shampoo in the garage (it was good that I had everything for this, I was going to training). But even after that there was a burning sensation. After a couple of days, a stain and a crust formed on the head like a burn. In general, the booger is harmless until you touch it.
Friends, the same problem, stinkers go boarding my (glazed) loggia. In the kitchen and in another room on the windows of the grid, and they can not get through, just sitting on them. And on the pile of holes a lot, Sedna caught about 10 stinks. Advice to everyone - put nets on windows, this is a must! There will be a gap around the perimeter (between the grid and the window frame), seal this gap with transparent adhesive tape. And not a single stink will crawl through! Today I still stuck a seal on the loggia, the invasion stopped. Smelly like mosquitoes - look for a small hole / gap in the window there and dive.
Almaty, October month. 2016 It got colder. Apparently a sharp change in temperature sent them to their homes. Every day I catch 4-7 pieces. And I don’t open the windows at all. Where do they climb from? A year ago, repairs were done, there are no cracks. Really some kind of invasion. Flicker already, as if climbing over the body. Brr
I live with you☺ in Abkhazia Sukhum, we have a catastrophe tell me what to do
Almaty October 2016. Interestingly, in 2015, bugs-soldiers (not red but brownish) walked everywhere. This year, stink bugs in crowds climb into the apartment. Walk everywhere. I’m already tired of throwing them out the window, and already often do not pay attention.
We live in Italy, the Veneto region, so we just have an invasion this year !!! My house is on a hill, the sunny side, so thousands attack the house !!! stinky !!! Everything smelled, they just shook me ... I go all day and collect them around the house, pull them out of the drawers, shake the beds, children's toys, kitchen cabinets - they are everywhere !!! I used various repellents and scented candles and pungent household sprays - they have nothing to do !!! I’ve been living here for five years already, for the first time such misfortune ... Along with bedbugs, ladybugs and locusts are also trying to enter the house ... Perhaps this is Armageddon ...
What can I say, we live in the Primorsky Territory, the city of Nakhodka, in the yard the end of October. Horror in the house their table to a lot, I do not want to take
Hair fixation spray. My wife aiotized a couple of zilch and voila the interior is natural and the smell is pleasant))))
When I catch them, I put some in jail. And I kill the rest, with the words: tell your relatives that would not return!
It seems different to get rid of them is unrealistic.
ABOUT ! I thought we were the only ones.Since last fall and all winter I have been collecting these stinkers around the house, and with them, in addition to ladybugs and soldiers. And fight like (((
Adler ...! This is PPC.
There are stinks in the attic and climb down. It feels like they have a womb in the attic and every day ten taxis.
Tired of it!
It got to the point that if at work in the office I see a stink, I think that I brought her there :)))
PPC
And in the car
And in clothes
And in bed.
Tomorrow I will try electronic scare insects.
Good day! I read your comments and saw one comment from Almaty. I am the same from Almaty and I want to say, HORROR !!! Bed bugs fly from the street and not big "stinkers" as they are called, but small ones. I struggle with them as I can. I’m afraid that they would not infect the apartment and bite at night!
2017 is summer. Not only Almaty is already in other regions. They are flying. Not to be afraid of. We don’t open the windows, nets, but at the same time they pass through everything. The whole apartment and yard stink. When you get closer to them they are cunning pretending to be dead. I think this is a huge problem. They even disdain birds. Do not you think some kind of balance is broken on planet Earth. Megacities are all in rats and harmful insects.
Summer 2017, the city of Almaty, it’s just a disaster, they are everywhere, the mosquito net is not an obstacle for them, something is scary, I recalled from the bible, maybe this is the beginning of the End?
I thought in Almaty only such horror, the invasion of these tenacious creatures in other countries, it is very sad that we do not know how to deal with it, and there is no help from the authorities, environmentalists ... and there are no answers on the Internet! This is some kind of punishment, it would be faster than a cold, maybe it will scare them away.
they have been with us for the third year, they spoil the entire crop. What should I do? How to deal with them? In the fall again there will be no harvest ...
July 2017, Kharkov, Ukraine. Such a bastard bit, even climb the wall. The feeling is not pleasant.
I was erasing a window curtain and didn’t notice a bug;
Chelyabinsk, I thought in our garden because of the cutting of birch, bedbugs made an invasion of the garden house, but after reading the comments, I’m no longer sure that because of this. Bedbugs are just a sea, you go to the site and this smell is characteristic, all the flowers are occupied, and the veranda of the house, mosquito nets do not save, horror is not pleasant, they fall directly from the ceiling. What to do? How to fight?
In the center of Moscow, dear citizens, these same guests! We gather green friends in the apartment. I went on the Internet - my neighbor thought about what exotic thing he was breeding or something, but it turns out that this cataclysm reached our north. What do they need here? Summer is chilling, winter is icy and snowy! And the sun is one month a year!
And how to fight? Who knows? I live in Abkhazia, these bastards and the crop spoiled, and life is complicated: it’s impossible to go to the balcony, the flowers are no longer with Actara, and mustard, and just not ..., but they live. They tried dichlorvos at work, the klopiks lost consciousness for a while, and then they also vigorously moved to the ceiling ...
Krasnodar, the horror of what is happening ?? ♀️There are a lot of these bugs! They are everywhere, cucumbers, raspberries, tomatoes, ordinary grass, shorter horror
I live in Abkhazia, and there are a lot of them, the nets do not help here. I don’t know what to do.
Well, okay, since there are such “reports from the fields”, I’ll also add for statistics. Almaty I thought that the problem was geranium on the balcony (by the way, I took a few dozen from the flower), I went to read it, but here it is ...
Hello! , Now these bastards have already reached Siberia. I live in Irkutsk, on the 9th floor, climb in packs, already closed all the windows, but they still somehow make their way. Tortured to collect, terribly unpleasant.
Is there a way to get rid of bugs? The problem is extensive, tell me please
Samara, the same thing. invasion of 2017
Yes, stinkers are tired !!!! Krasnodar.
Just some kind of curse ..., overpowered. In Tuapse invasion and how to fight I do not know
read that wormwood helps, tomorrow I'll go look ...
I live in Abkhazia, we have a lot of them, they appeared from last year. Today, in general, there are how many PPCs there are, we already have practically no fruits, everyone eats in a row, plants, vegetables, fruits, everything. We don’t know what to do with them, the first time I see this, we live in the village, on hot days, they are everywhere, it's just awful
So what to do with them? No one is fighting with them. At least a helicopter ... And at home with cracks like? On the balcony, even the net does not help. Between the valves they climb. What it is?????????
How to get rid of them in the house fly and smell bad
Kapets, I think that for Khereya, the first time this left the house in the morning and was stunned a, the whole floor is in brown bugs and inside, this blow is already haunting ((((
it’s greedy leaders of different suits and levels who brought this muck in Sochi boxwood gobbled up palm trees, infested forests with bugs and the state leadership doesn’t do anything even with a finger, but it was necessary to shoot
Safe disposal of stink bugs
You can also get rid of annoying insects that bother with their smell without using chemical agents. After all, there is a mass of effective folk recipes to deal with them.
The fact is that the natural analogue of some powerful chemical insecticides are substances - pyrethrins, which are contained in some plants of the aster family. Especially a lot of these substances are found in the pyrethrum plant, which is very similar to chamomile.
Feedback:
Always just used a camomile to scare bugs in the garden. Never used any chemistry and are very satisfied!
Sochi Hosta Po ... ma ... gi ... those ... zadolbali these bugs ...
What to do???
these bugs reached Odessa. I live on the 5th floor. a water bubble appears at the site of the bite, then bursts and crusts. and itches a lot.
I live in Dagomys.
This year, something terrible where the authorities are looking,? 2017. October
Nothing helps, I tried different means, in the attic I swept them already with a bucket for sure! The house is stuck, the neighbors are in shock too. How this year hasn’t happened yet
Mass treatment of forests is needed, as was done before
In Turkmenistan, the invasion began only this summer ... I will save it, there are no completely sealed windows, there are no gaps or holes, the windows were installed last year, everything is absolutely leakproof like a rocket ... where they come from !!!!
We moved to Krasnodar in the fall ... I think I will go to Siberia)))) THEY are huge here !!! ... they get out a little warmer because of all the cracks. Please tell me what helps, how to get rid of them? Do electronic repellers help?
Sochi center I have been watching the picture from 2016 to this day - there were a lot in the summer, less in the autumn - after rains and cooling. The nets are saved, but vseravno in the apartment on the 4th floor from time to time appear if the net is not pressed tightly and when you dry your clothes. I thought that only we had trees, but it turned out to many. The color is not bright green, and not a lot of marsh brownish. It stinks when you crush it. Interestingly, but they have a lot of protein and how do they taste? 🙂
We have INVASION. This is not a joke. Need help!!!!!!!!!
The village of South Sea. We live by the sea. The open Sea of Japan. Three weeks ago, in the afternoon, hordes of these creatures arrived --- stuck around the walls. And from that day on, HORROR ----- do not sleep. do not eat ----- sweep scoops. Closed windows do not help. Every year there were hordes of ladybugs, but they do not go into comparison. We thought - we are alone, but no !!!!!
Horror! I live on the 6th floor. Every day 2 or 3 critters fly around the house. Children are afraid, and I am also disgusted. And there are more and more of them ???
Krasnodar. I’m losing my mind from these monsters since childhood, I am stiff with horror. They climb into the apartment with the windows closed with nets; I already have a neurosis. Someone asked how they taste? So, I got familiar with a raspberry berry bit the bug, she vomited and burned her mouth with fire.
Sochi Kudepsta! The first year we live in our long-awaited and beloved country house! But they could not even think that stink bugs would live with us. And these creatures climbed under the roof, now they live with us. And we do not part with the vacuum cleaner! And this is not 10, not 100, but 1000 bugs per day !!!! What to do??? Awful. We have a small child. Already received burns from these bugs, as they inject poisonous juice. ❌❌❌❌ big trouble!
Today we cleaned the air conditioner, they turned out to be in the wall where the hose goes to the street block, they just settled down there
I’ve been fighting with them for three years, temporarily mustard helps until there is no young stock, then it is useless to completely destroy tomatoes, bell peppers, cucumbers, eggplant and greens, worse than the Colorado potato beetle from them only chemistry can save
A neighbor said that she heard in the news that they were going to poison the beetles in Sochi. They promise in March, like they are hibernating now. Come see what kind of "hibernation" they have. Isn't it better to start early. It's just darkness and horror. How are you going to open the season? With gnawed trees and bushes and bed bugs in beds and on tables ????
It’s just PPC, in the winter on the balcony with a vacuum cleaner I just collected hundreds of such parasites every week with the generalka and didn’t help, they are hiding in such places that you won’t find it. fly somewhere from somewhere, floor 5. Help someone know how to get rid of them?
An imported Marble bug settled in Sochi and Abkhazia. It was this rubbish that destroyed all the crops of Abkhazia and launched an invasion in Russia. Not a simple forest bug
In Anapa I see in large quantities from last year on tomatoes, cucumbers, and other plants. I saw on TV that if they were collected, crushed, diluted with water and this sprayed the plants, the bugs would smell the dead relatives and go around these places.
These scum attack everywhere ... I got sick of draining them into the toilet. Now I started to collect in a bottle of whiskey.
Sevastopol, the horror of bedbugs, the whole figs were poured, the tomato crop, fruit trees are dying, I read that they were brought from Asia during the landscaping of the Olympic facility in Sochi, in Russia bedbugs have no natural enemies, for example, like in Vietnam, they last year, but this was a lot, chemistry doesn’t work on them, I wonder if guinea fowls eat them? Like colorado beetles
In Sevastopol, the invasion of bugs, a carpet in the garden, especially now, closer to the fall, I read that they were brought during the construction of the Olympic facility in Sochi, from Asia, during landscaping. They have no natural enemies in Russia.Interestingly guinea fowls eat them? Like colorado beetles? By the way, the Colorado potato beetle disappeared when these creatures appeared
Armavir, Krasnodar Territory, it’s just awful, dichlafos doesn’t take a fight, they are everywhere, the whole house, horror ...
We in Krasnodar have a huge invasion of these bugs. I would like to call someone in the administration and complain. Let them take some Merz.
Anapa, Novorossiysk are just tin, there are not 10 but 100 of them, they climb into all the cracks and attack. I tried dichlorvos today, returned about 20 minutes later, the whole window was covered with these creatures. Now I will try all the means and write whether there was an effect
The find of Livadia. Today forced 20 pieces in the house. What to do?
I live in the Veneto region of stinkers in Italy, millions are sitting right on the house, all the walls are strewn with them. From home, you throw them a few scoops per day. Hurry winter
they like white color ---- they don’t sit on the dark
Yes, this year in Georgia there’s a direct invasion. I was in Georgia in the summer, then I left for Turkey since I live there. I went home, unpack the bags and then I see that an uninvited guest has arrived with me? But here there are none. I have not met for 13 years. There is a tree by the window, let it out there, after some time again I found it in the apartment, on the chandelier. Autumn has come, I think it may have burned out in the chandelier. So no! Appeared again! Now we live together with him. If he survives the next trip, I’ll take him back, otherwise who will he talk to with ☺️ ...
Krasnodar region. We have 30 acres of a garden, from the end of July to November there was a terrible shaft of stinkers. I deduced that hens eat them (one chicken can feed up to 1,500 per day), released the hens into the garden, walked next to them and threw them on the ground with those they did not reach. They pecked with great pleasure, was afraid that they would burst from overeating ... But they did not burst, the next day they again asked to go to the garden for a "tasty treat". So we slightly reduced the number of bedbugs, but we need effective chemistry !!!
because, ladies and gentlemen, from our 21st century agricultural industry, with all the selection of chemistry, and in the cities, due to the lack of green areas, birds die. bugs fly wherever they want ...
And we have a summer cottage in the forest, there are a lot of birds, they mix the whole sweet cherry. But these bedbugs for the second year did not allow lilacs to blossom. I collect mechanically in a jar of water. I tried to use poison this year, even does not help.
I live on the 5th floor !!!!! I fought with 《Smelly》 2 years !!!! Once I smeared a wound with green stuff on my leg, and he just flew in, and I smeared his hop with green stuff and threw it out the window. In the evening I go out to the balcony and look, and my tagged one looks at me ???????.
Found a simple, good and effective way:
• Take a jar
• Pour 1/3 of the water
• Pour 1-1.5 tablespoon of sunflower oil
Where suddenly I get it, I throw them into this jar and after 1.5 minutes they are no longer alive and they almost do not have time to ring. Used to catch hundreds per day ?. Now 10 pieces a week ?. It seems the livestock has reduced ??
There is an insecticidal chalk pencil MASHENKA on sale. Draw lines around the perimeter of the window on the balcony. From this MACHINE they die when they crawl.
I live on the fifth floor every day about 10 creeps in, I don’t know what to do with them, and the most interesting thing is that my mother’s private house has a lot of greenery, grape flowers and at least one flew into the house!