stinkbug invasion

[arrowspark]

I was cleaning my garage floor with degreaser and I could not go five minutes without those things flying in and landing on something. I tried blowing them out with my blower and when that didn't deter them I started vacuuming them up. I know exactly what is going to happen if I start doing epoxy, these stupid things will land on the wet epoxy and get stuck and becoming fossilized in epoxy. Is it a bad idea to do epoxy with garage doors down? Even if I keep them shut I would still need to open them eventually when I need to do that area. Any advice?

 

[LegacyIndustrial]

You are lucky you don't have the love-bugs. They ruin your car paint!

 

[Silver Heels]

The guy who did my epoxy floor told me he'll occasionally come back the next day following laying down the epoxy and find a mouse with its feet stuck in the middle of the garage floor still struggling to free itself from the now cured epoxy. There is no humane way to separate the mouse from the concrete lol.

 

[bigbadktm]

Put the doors down to 8" or so above the floor, it will help. I just did a floor, and my second to last coat had 5 flies stuck in it...with wiggle lines. Little turds. Look at your tracks, towards the bottom should be some holes. Put nails or screws or something that will fit through the hole and release the door from the opener. This way you can control when and where the door stops.

 

[K588]

I'm in Md to we havent had any all year and they are back, the outside of the house was coated. I sprayed it with Talstar P and the next day they were gone. Its the only thing I have found that kills them.

 

[rburke65]

Been removing them from the inside of our Dining room area for the last week. I have been putting a small towel over them and tossing them outside. My wife says she was told they are "stick" bugs and not "stink" bugs? Have no idea. Got tired of this, so yesterday, we seemed to be over run with them.....found them hinding in the curtains....I used the central vac and just sucked them up with a lot less trouble. Haven't seen any since!

 

[GCncsuHD]

We've been infested with them for the last few days as well. I had hardly ever seen but just one or two my entire life until last year they infested my shop, this year their population looks to have doubled. I've been looking at something to spray for them, the barrier spray I sprayed for other insects, I found a few stink bugs just strolling along, right on the sprayed barrier like it was a Sunday afternoon walk, seemed to have no effect on them.

I just filled up the wet/dry vac with a few inches of water, then went to town sucking them into the vacuum, probably got several hundred in there. When they hit the water they drown and die, then I pour the remains out when I am done. Simply vacuuming them into a dry vac the stench was worse and many of them would still be alive inside.

The ones on the outside of the house, I just grabbed a cup filled with water and a dash of dish detergent. Simply put the cup underneath them on the siding on the house and probably 2/3s of them would commit suicide and dive in, the rest I simply brushed into the cup, they generally fall straight down before flying off.

Though, if it gets much worse, I may have to build one of these.

 

[ratdoggy]

They might just be in a cycle and won't even be there in a week.
I redid the maple butcher block counter during 'gnat week'.
We have already had spider month, gnat week, stinkbug week, blister beetle week, and the hummingbirds have left and the dman woodpeckers are back.

Don't do the epoxy until they leave.

You forgot "Shark Week"

 

[arrowspark]

I finished applying the primer from the Legacy HD 600 kit, took about an hour to finis a two car garage. No stinkbugs but 3 gnats already stuck in primer, those bastards. I hope they won't show through the main coat.

 

[MSG C5]

You are lucky you don't have the love-bugs. They ruin your car paint!

I agree. They are nasty and the smell pretty bad as well. Even when I'm out in the garage with the doors open they tend to land on everything.

Frogs are also a PITA. I can't decide which is the stupidist animal on the planet, frogs or squirrels. If I have a garage door open at dusk, frogs love to jump in the garage and hide under the cars. Problem is, they will then dry up into dried raisins in less than a day. I always find them curled up in the corners of my garage.

The local squirrels seem to be on suicide runs lately. I can be driving down the street and a squirrel on the opposite side of the road, will run towards my car as if he's playing a game of chicken right when I'm passing him.

 

[SteveCh]

The stink bugs are looking to hibernate, so once they "go away" you'll be able to see them again next spring.

 

[hemicbx]

For the ones in the house, my wife attacks them with a jar of water with a drop of dishsoap in it. It breaks the surface tension and they sink. She just scoops them right in.

That might be a nice mprovement to the shop vac trick mentioned above.