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| Jwalling:
--- Quote from: Zero999 on October 11, 2020, 11:09:17 am ---How about emptying it into a paper bag, which can then be burned, or immersed in bleach solution and binned? --- End quote --- OK, this gave me a perfect solution! A combo of two ideas in the thread. I'll put it in the freezer for an hour, then dump them into a paper bag and burn them. I have a fire pit in the back yard, so who cares what it smells like... Thanks everyone for your ideas! |
| Jwalling:
Worked pretty good. One paper bag with some crumpled up newspaper inside, sprinkle in stink bugs to suit. Roast on high for 3 minutes. :popcorn: Yep, it did smell pretty bad. |
| Jwalling:
--- Quote from: Siwastaja on October 11, 2020, 02:33:46 pm ---Don't kill them, go release them in the nature, or better yet, at your neighbor's home. --- End quote --- You didn't read the Wiki article I linked, did you? |
| David Hess:
The Chinese stink bugs showed up here near St. Louis a couple years ago. I have been spraying them with Windex, picking them up with a napkin, and bagging them. |
| rsjsouza:
Hah, Wikipedia editors must be drunk - this is not new. Since I was a kid in the 1980s that I deal with these little stinkers in Brazil: both this and the green variants and were commonly called "maria fedorenta" or "maria fedida". Their smell is quite terrible, but if I recall correctly they don't spray unless they feel threatened (or when squashed). |
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