No, but I have a couple of ideas. 1) Get some vinyl gloves, the cheap ones so when you pick them off they won't make your hands stink. 2) There is a stun fly swatter you can get that will zap insects then you could dump them in sudsy water or put them in a bag and dispose of them. I've been seeing a few stink bugs in my garden also. I hate them! They used to get all over my squash and leave blemishes.

OKSandy

I wish I knew an easy way to get rid of these monsters, Susan, but I don't. I prefer to knock them to the ground and step on them, but sometimes I just squish them with my hands - whatever it takes!
Remember the big stinkbugs that killed so many of my PVS cats last spring?
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MissSherry

Oh, the stink of it all!

I know what you mean...I can smell 'em around, too! Drives me insane...and I am out there muttering to myself, "I know you stinky bugger is a-hiding in here just waiting to eat one of my little cat-pits!" I use my child-size Fiskars and cut 'em in half. Yep, I do! Frankenstink.

Susan, I wish I knew what weapon you could use against them but I don't. If you find out, let me know because I just hate those things and Tachinid flies and Brachonid Wasps and Oleander Aphids and ....

Sherry, Oh my gosh, do you mean that I'm not the only one who talks to myself?? Apparently it's a habit and I don't realize that I'm doing it sometimes. I was out gathering milkweed leaves for the cats the other day and I heard my daughter say something to her boyfriend over the phone and I thought I heard me being mentioned. I thought she was telling him about me still fussing with the Monarchs, but when I asked her she said that she told him that I was muttering to myself as usual. I'd like to know how I'm expected to not mutter when I see Oleander Aphids, Milkweed Bugs, Milkweed Beetles, Japanese beetles and whatever else is out there that I find disgusting! I know care what she says...the voices tell me that I'm at least halfway normal. :-) Hey, either you stole my technique or I stole yours because I am usually found outside walking with a scissors, either to cut eggs off of leaves or to cut bugs in half. ;-)

Cathy

I'm gonna have to look for the zapper and p/u some gloves, too. They are quick, and they are usually found in the middle of my vines and plants, so that by the time I see them and reach for them, they are on the move - fast! Grrrrrr! I've gotten really good at squashing milkweed bugs and beetles - I have so darned many, but I'm not gonna let them eat my plants and my pods!

I guess I could start a 12-step program - Stink Bugs Anonymous, but I hate t admit I'm powerless over the darn things!

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone!

I talk to the children all the time - telling them how beautiful they are. If you'd have seen me when I found that Elm Sphinx yesterday, you'd a thought I was nutso. I kept telling him how gorgeous he was, as he perched in the typical sphinx position on the branch I cut. They are stunningly beautiful cats!

Susan

Susan,
I have a few of those electric zappers. The best one I found uses D batteries. Don't get the cheap one because it just doesn't send out enough of a charge. ;P You need to zap the !@#$% out of the things! DH was after me the other day because I came in complaining that I didn't kill this one bug and he said, "Why didn't you get out your zapper? You know you are not very good when you use your slippers." tee-hee!

LOL! How funny, Sherry! I know - I wear my rubber garden shoes, and even they are not the best to use when stomping out bugs.

I bet I squished about 15 milkweed bugs this morning. I'm so tired of finding the darned things, but I know they're laying eggs on the milkweed and I can't find all the eggs because my plants are so full and lush....due to lack of Monarchs this year. I've found a few beetles, but not near as many of them as bugs.

I did manage to locate a couple of the stink bugs and commit felony murder. No penalty for this crime, thank goodness. I just have tons of predators this year - stink bugs, praying mantids, wasps that patrol the plants for caterpillars, spiders by the gazillions! I've never had this many before in my yard and I don't like it! I've been told that you have to experience the bad in order to appreciate the good, though. Ahhhhh.

Susan