i never thought of that. and what do you mean that the plant came with a cap ?

i'll have to keep my eyes open because every so often i get one or two or three. i was visiting relatives this week in delco and i got one in their house. wasn't sure if it came along with me for the ride LOL

thanks for the tip!
maryanne

I was wondering if that would work to keep the knats at bay around my houseplants a couple of weeks ago, but wasn't sure if I'd be able to keep the Venus Flytrap alive.

Great idea. They are selling those at the local Walmarts right now for $4.95 a piece, but they don't have the plastic lids, they are in bags.

This is how I deal with Japanese Beetles. It just made feel good to gather them in a bowl of water as they were dining on my cannas, weeping cherry and Harry Lauder.....then walk to the pond and feed them to the bullfrogs!

For fruit flies and gnats, just get a small glass with dish washing detergent and vinegar in some water. The flies and gnats will drown themselves. They are attracted to the vinegar. When I see stink bugs, I brush them into the glass.

Those pesky stink bugs make great dog toys! I have two border collie puppies that LOVE (translation: are obsessed with) playing with plastic 20 oz soda bottles. I drop the stink bugs into the bottles, put the caps back on tightly and give the bottles to the dogs. Keeps those puppies happy for hours while they try to figure out how to get the bugs out of the bottles!

Great idea I live in Montgomery county too! I'll have too look for one in the mean time the dish detergent and vinegar sounds good too! Vinegar is great for so many things windows laundry hummingbird feeders I love it!

I'd sooner buy a Venus flytrap plant than fool around with the bugs and killing them....
Now, if we can talk the Venus plant into eating slugs ......or mice ...lol....lol

Those things are prehistoric looking!
They scare me to death!
How can you get that close to them?
Well, they are all dying off now.
Thank God!
Ugliest bug I ever saw. And they just stand there and stare back at you!

I'm up in Carbon County and they aren't dyin around here. I still find them eating on my houseplants. They seem to really like the taste of the prayer plants.

I also was wondering if those venus flytraps were still alive, since we still have some for sale at the local walmart. I've still got that in the back of my mind.

Stacy.

I don't think they are dying off at all. I keep finding them in my house..I just think they are hiding in warm places, having parties and making babies. I've started dropping them into the fish tank, the fish love them and my passive little guppies and mollies act like piranhas when they get a stink bug treat. But just when I think I've gotten the last one..another one will buzz by my head. I'm declaring war on these suckers.

jiggreen

My new office is inundated with stink bugs. I have sucked up hundreds possibly thousands with my elecrolux canister type vacuum. I have to change the bag often otherwise it's pretty efficient. Docco

sometimes we catch them and feed them to the turtle, but mostly I like to suck them up with the vacuum!

We started getting them in 2008 in the Exton, PA area and the first year we got about 3 per day into the house.
Then in 2009 I ordered some super tiny litte parasite bugs from http://www.gardensalive.com/product.asp?pn=5110&ss=Trichogramma and it reduced them to 2 - 3 per week, and again this spring (2010) ordered them again and haven't seen one all through the 4th of July. The nice thing is that it's Bugs going after Bugs. Totally nice.
Oh, and I'll have to try the Venus Fly Trap trick, just for the fun of it.

I vaccumed Harlequin bugs and that was fairly effective (outside, off brussel sprouts). I'm nervous about vaccuming stink bugs but will give it a try and hope no stink! I've used a garden flame thrower to singe large gatherings of stink bugs and also on box elder bug gatherings. I figure the leaf they are gathered on is a goner anyway. I use mesh tents over young plants and I flame the ground before I plant in it. I've used insecticidal soap but don't know if it worked or not.

We just moved to Pennsylvania, and the first time I saw these bugs, I thought they were Squash Bugs...then I saw a news piece about them and took a closer look at the little critters. The past week, they have been covering the screens outside the porch at the back of our house. My two year old likes to flick the screens and watch them fly off, so I guess they are providing cheap entertainment.

My red ear sliders eat them like pellets...

The next growing season should be indicative of whether '10's infestation was a result of more heat than usual...or whether their numbers are truly expanding. Highland Orchards is worried, as I am, over produce for next summer. I had little holes drilled by them into my peppers and tomatoes, while the fruits were small, which resulted in mature produce with large disfiguring holes. No one wants to buy produce with holes. My tomatoes and peppers looked terrible.

Put rubbing alcohol in a container. When you see a stink bug use a piece of paper towel (they may stink they may not depends on how fast you are). Throw the bugger in the the container and in seconds it's dead!!!! Also try to figure out where they are coming in the house and caulk!!!!

I opened the windows in the attic and removed the screens; the bugs fly out the window. It seems like they are trying to get out this time of year instead of trying to get in.
I try to remember to close the windows at night so bats do not come in; I had a few bats in the house in previous years before stink bugs were around, but that is another story.