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Interesting… we have seen more stink bugs this year than ever before ! Always by the front door. Not more than one at a time and not too too frequently but enough that I know they must be hanging outside the front door waiting to get in!
a Few years ago I was flushing or throwing out at least four each week. This year I haven’t seen but a couple. Maybe the new hood is tougher than the last one.
Last year, it was not a problem - the occasional bug when the weather started cooling off because they are all trying to find a warm place to hang out for the winter, but I would spray around the house with a homemade bug spray - neem and peppermint oil, a touch of Dawn. All things that kill or repel many bugs, including stink bugs.
And they always seemed to cluster outside my bedroom window, probably because of the warmth coming from the air conditioner hose, but they somehow mostly managed to stay outside. Just a stray once in a while, and then I'd spray again.
This year, though, they found a way to get in somehow, despite all kinds of foam seals that I put in or spraying (though to be fair, I didn't do it nearly as often since I had to go to campus 5 days a week again.) It started with just one that made its way in each day. Then one night it was two. Then the next night, I killed three within about half an hour. And it would get worse every night until one Friday night about a week or so ago. I ended up killing 6 of them that night. And they were coming in one at a time, so I would kill one, check all around the window and not see anything, and then 10 minutes later, the next one would appear. They just kept coming and I couldn't relax, not knowing if or when they would keep coming in the window.
I slept on the couch that night and the next day, I took the hose out of the window, cleaned it all up, and put gaffer's tape all around the window (I got some white tape so it at least matches!)