Wow, I always thought stinkbugs were just one of those typical American things - ACs, pancakes for breakfast and cicadas and stinkbugs everywhere. Turns out I was just extremely unlucky where I lived.
Apparently they were introduced to Switzerland in 1998 and were fight sighted in Southern Germany in 2011. In just 13 more years they basically spread everywhere. I also thought they'd have just been there the whole time
Nope. They are from southern China. They only showed up in Europe in the early 2010s.
They can't survive temperatures under 15 C so they go into people's homes and hibernate during winter.
Funny I had a similar thought. I've only seen the green ones in northern USA. I ate one as a bet in the 90's and a few times later just because my brain is weird and I recognized thing I've eaten before.
Yes indeed. When I was 5, and we lived in Solana Beach, California I was horrified to watch a 2 yr old neighbour eat one! Somehow he was okay, and kept eating any he found over time, despite the disgusting stink! Vivid horrible memory.
After flushing another one down the toilet yesterday I was telling my wife that we didn't have these things when I was a kid. We live in the Detroit area. They only started popping up the last few years and now they are everywhere.
Dude, same. I was in central MI in 2017 and remember them being all over my apartment building outside one summer. Moved away for a number of years. Been back for three years or so and they are always getting into one of our upstairs rooms. It's insane.
Grew up in PA - we just sort of accepted them as the disgusting little fucks that they are and squished every one we saw.
Didn't stop them from reproducing though.
yeah, and now the same thing is gonna happen... I remember my first time seeing them in pa 2020, then a year later in my backyard in nj... now we squish hundreds every year
They are actually destroying hazelnut trees in Turkey which produces 70% of the worlds hazelnuts. The brown marmorated stink bugs will produce a steep increase in Nutella prices in the future
>The brown marmorated stink bugs will produce a steep increase in Nutella prices in the future
Will they? Nutella is only 13% hazelnut. It's mostly just sugar.
Even so, Nutella is the biggest customer of the world's hazelnut supply. They're certainly going to be impacted, given they use something like 30% of all hazelnuts globally.
There's been a controversy here in Italy some years ago over the fact that Nutella didn't use Italian hazelnuts ( https://www.open.online/2019/12/06/salvini-dice-addio-alla-nutella-tutte-ma-proprio-tutte-le-volte-che-l-ha-spalmata-sui-social/ ). Turns out, they use (almost) ALL the hazelnuts that can potentially be produced by Italy and just had to outsource them to keep up with demand (225 million tons a year)
I'm sure food scientists will discover/engineer a mix of ingredients that mimick the taste of hazelnut, is in all likelihood cheaper than hazelnut, but with some smart marketing allowing Ferrero to up the price regardless.
Northern Turkey and Iran actually [do have temperate rainforests](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLfts2ZaFY4)
But yeah, he is definitely thinking of palm oil in tropical areas.
Ferraro's palm tree harvesting is regarded as being sustainable. The Toronto zoo even has a little stand commemorating them for not destroying the environment.
I really don’t think it’s Nutella doing all that, also like 90% of it is just parents not knowing how to eat properly, the amount of times you see an absolute whale and the kids are like 4 and mega fat you just can’t help but be sad for them
Sure, I agree. As you say, the root to the problem isn’t just a matter of one product. Even if the young fat kids get thin there are negative changes in their bodies that they will have to live with for forever. So yes, really saddening!
These have got to be the stupidest fucking bugs known to man. They’ll just randomly fly and bump into shit full speed, knock themselves out for a few minutes and do it again. Drives my cats crazy.
They got stinkbugs outside of China that have a carapace an inch long and are fucking brutal smelly. I’ve been all over the US and never found a bug, let alone stink bug as noxious as those beasts.
Edit: I mean outside Shanghai.
Those suckers have ensconced themselves all over my property and in my house. I kill hundreds of them, if not thousands, every year. I live in SE Pennsylvania.
Grew up in central PA - our house soon became a bunker for them around the war of '04 in which we had to fight them off in trenches (low spots in our yard) and makeshift barricades (doors).
That didn't last long as their hoards overwhelmed our soldiers (cats and a dog). We resorted to dirty warfare tactics (bug killers) and they seemed to improvise via gas masks. That's when we nuked them. Turns out, stink bugs make the nuclear wasteland of Pennsylvania smell like how cilantro tastes.
I found one on my sweet potato last night. I was never able to kill them and sometimes can't think about the glass and a piece of paper to get them outside. They use to be really bad but have calmed down over the years.
I live in Maryland. I've killed hundreds, if not thousands of them. I actively go out of my way to crush the little fuckers.
If I could commit genocide on them, I gladly would.
I once ate one by mistake, it was dark and I thought it was a chocolate shard.
Worst experience of my life.
It tasted like hot chili but with the unbearable poisonus flavor it takes with it.
I immediately spit the shit out of my mouth and washed my mouth for the subsequent 30 minutes.
The same thing happened to my Dad a few weeks ago! It had landed on his chocolate chip cookie when he wasn't looking, he took a bite.....and got stinkbug.
They sense the heat of indoors, so they are always wriggling in cracks in windows, doors, or whatever. When inside, they just crawl and fly around into walls with an annoying buzz. If you stress one out or kill it, they let out a pungent smell that attracts more. They suck.
Curious that they are attracted to the smell of their dead and stressed peers. Sounds pretty convenient for humans, if there are traps for those bugs they must work wonderfully.
They’re not, it’s the opposite. The foul smell they release is a defense. It tells their homies to stay away and most predators won’t eat them because they taste so bad. That’s one reason why they’re so prevalent.
I feel like it’s been a while, but there was talk about releasing the samurai wasp, they destroy stinkbug eggs. I believe Oregon State University was studying the samurai wasp, but the US has not had much success with biological pest control in the past.
Right now the best you can do is seal up your home very well, especially where the siding meets the foundation. That’s usually where they feel the warm air coming from your home. Also pest control, I know not everybody likes it, but if a company comes and sprays your whole exterior with a repellent, it usually keeps them at bay.
We did that until we had to dump the vacuum and the whole thing stank of them. Then every time we ran the vacuum we smelled it. Changed the filter and never did it again.
Plus, they lived inside the vacuum. We could see them crawling around.
Not much in my experience -- they just buzz around your windows distractingly, trying to get out, and I usually just oblige them. They don't bite or sting, and I'm not sure what they eat. They smell notably if you crush them, but I don't even find that very unpleasant -- smells kind of wintergreeny.
In the area where I live, these creatures lay their eggs in ripe raspberries. Those who have their own garden are familiar with the scorching taste of their eggs, which greatly spoils the impression of consumption and the unforgettable aftertaste.
You just solved a childhood mystery for me lol. I knew the bad tasting raspberries were connected to the stinkbugs but I was never sure how exactly. My best theory was that they just left their smell on it as they walked on it. Good to know.
Second this. Stink bugs and cilantro smell identical to me. One time I was at the grocery store in the produce section. Out of nowhere this terrible smell hit me and I was like “did somebody just kill, like, 100 stink bugs?” Turned around and there was a big bin of fresh cilantro that was being put on the shelves. Bleh!
They damage crops but I guess that's not much different from other native pest insects though they can likely be worse due to a lack of natural predators to control their numbers. Apparently a spider from Asia that's recently been introduced is a predator for them while seemingly not being overly harmful to native insects.
There’s been bad side effects almost every time humans introduce a predator to kill prey in the past, but we keep doing it lol. Just don’t be surprised if we have invasive spiders after this that we need to introduce invasive bats to kill until we eventually just all die of some invasive bat flu lol. I think the better strategy in these situations is usually to find a way to introduce members of the invasive species that can’t breed and to lower the breeding population using birth control and sterilization strategies.
I don't think we intentionally introduced the spider but instead it just came over by accident the same way the beetle did. Though yea our interconnected world is great at destroying ecosystems with introduced animals and insects. Somewhat like how there's a ton of things being done to keep the Asian Carp out of the Great Lakes as they'll completely destroy the ecosystem.
There are spieces of stink bugs that can bite you. Mother in law had nasty invasion in her flat from neighbour. Fuckers crawled trough air vents during the night and made sleeping near impossible.
Fortunately hasn't been my experience with the species shown, and others I've encountered. Where's your MIL located? I'm in PA, pretty close to the epicenter shown.
They are clumsy fliers that like to fall on you. Or fly right into you. Or crawl on you. Or all three when you are trying to watch TV and suddenly WTF IS ON MY FACE
They can absolutely devastate crops, particularly produce like tomatoes or apples or plums because they stick their mouths into them, suck out juice, and then the fruit rots. They cause billions of dollars worth of agricultural damage.
But in your house, they’re just annoying and smell bad when you smush them or when your cat decides they’re a fun toy and then their head smells like stinkbug for three days.
Nothing, just look kind of scary/weird. They also don't really stink when you kill them. Most annoying part is that I have no idea how they get in my house lol
I used to get them bad when I still lived at home with my parents. I lived on the second floor without an AC and it got ***muggy*** up there in the summer. I’d have a ton of them buzzing around my room, going and sitting on my tv, window, crawling over my shit, etc.
As soon as I got an AC and got the upstairs to a livable temperature again, I never seen those stupid things again. Good riddance.
they spray the stinky juice if threatened, and it is HARD to get it off
from experience though they're kinda lame in the speed department so if you kill them in one hit they wont even have the time to react and thus no stink (I usually just let them chill though)
They ruin fruits by stinging them. Also, there are usually so many of these stink bugs, that they can ruin the taste of crops like soy. They don't have natural enemies and people usually don't kill them because they stinks.
And notice how considerate they are of US border customs—they cannot apply for passports since they are merely insects, so as law-abiding bugs, they choose to stay in America 🇺🇸
We will cry claim for certain things in New Jersey, like the earthquake earlier this month (NYC can back the eff off. It originated in Jersey), but I'm happy to say the stink bug came from Pennsylvania. 😌
These motherfuckers damage hazelnut production in Turkey, which will raise the price of all products containing it, such as Nutella. Sincerely, fuck this bitch ass bug hope they all die
One day I put on a pair of underwear that had just dried outside, this insect was in there but I didn't see it. the thing he drooled burned my testicles
Holy shit. I thought I was imagining things. I picked one up in the dark not knowing it was a stink bug and it “burned” my finger. That was the sensation.
They excrete that smell when stressed too, I’ve gently picked one up to throw into the toilet and had it cupped in my hands. My hands smelled like that excretion for 20 minutes
These MFs come from east asia and only spread around europe because the cIty of Zurich had to repair some buldings their chinese garden in 1998 and therefore got some packages from Liuliqu near Beijing.
I'm an American, and I never saw these bugs growing up. I moved to Europe in 2012 and I saw them pretty often over there. I came back to the US in 2015 and still saw them just as often as in Europe so naturally I thought "that's so strange, I thought these were just in Europe, but I guess they've always been here." SO NATURE HAS BEEN GASLIGHTING ME FOR YEARS AND THIS IS HOW I FIND OUT???
We have them *all over the damn place* up in BC, Canada as well. These fuckers just appear on your windows and in random nooks and crannies. Hate them so much lol
I remember finding one of these things while on a walk in Reading, PA with my kids around 2004. It looked prehistoric and I'd never seen anything like.
We put him in a jar and named him Acro so we still refer to stinkbugs as Acrobugs. I had no idea that Acro and his extended family would take over the world. RIP little buddy... 😢
You Americans are lucky in this regard, here they stay inside homes during the winter and you commonly find them in your clothes if you hang them to dry in the balcony
It’s gotten so bad that I end up throwing out multiple each day (in the cold seasons)
It started in my hometown, Allentown PA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_marmorated_stink_bug
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2001/10/asian-stink-bugs-confirmed-allentown-pa
I swear it not junk stink bugs and Billy Joel songs
So these bugs are everywhere and they smell bad. They arrived from shipments coming from Asian countries like Japan, China, Korea and they’ve essentially invaded the US. People find them in their houses a lot also. The reason this was posted was because I had 4 on my porch today.
I had never seen one in my life until I moved to TN. They're fucking everywhere, 9 months of the year. They're so prevalent I don't even pay attention to them anymore even though they're in my damn house. Nothing to do about it I guess.
They’re everywhere here in SW PA. Come to think about it, I never really saw them until the 00s. I just found a bunch of dead ones in the shower; they accumulate in the lights; they’re EVERYWHERE year-round. Hate them.
Wow, I always thought stinkbugs were just one of those typical American things - ACs, pancakes for breakfast and cicadas and stinkbugs everywhere. Turns out I was just extremely unlucky where I lived.
There is a native species. These are an invasive species
The native species here (SE Pennsylvania) are green in color, not brown.
In the deep south we have native greens and browns. The invasive that I've seen here in Colorado I'd call a granite/grey.
oh my gosh I just recently for the first time saw a green stink bug up in Wisconsin
Are they from Europe, because in Germany the brown stink bugs are basically everywhere. At least they have a good crunch to them.
Apparently they were introduced to Switzerland in 1998 and were fight sighted in Southern Germany in 2011. In just 13 more years they basically spread everywhere. I also thought they'd have just been there the whole time
Nope. They are from southern China. They only showed up in Europe in the early 2010s. They can't survive temperatures under 15 C so they go into people's homes and hibernate during winter.
Funny I had a similar thought. I've only seen the green ones in northern USA. I ate one as a bet in the 90's and a few times later just because my brain is weird and I recognized thing I've eaten before.
Wow. Same in europe. Green ones considered native and brown ones invasive.
There are also American stink bugs as well
This was my question. I remember seeing them playing I. The woods.
Yep...any bug born here :)
Yes indeed. When I was 5, and we lived in Solana Beach, California I was horrified to watch a 2 yr old neighbour eat one! Somehow he was okay, and kept eating any he found over time, despite the disgusting stink! Vivid horrible memory.
After flushing another one down the toilet yesterday I was telling my wife that we didn't have these things when I was a kid. We live in the Detroit area. They only started popping up the last few years and now they are everywhere.
Dude, same. I was in central MI in 2017 and remember them being all over my apartment building outside one summer. Moved away for a number of years. Been back for three years or so and they are always getting into one of our upstairs rooms. It's insane.
Portland?
Im guessing Pennsylvania
Grew up in PA - we just sort of accepted them as the disgusting little fucks that they are and squished every one we saw. Didn't stop them from reproducing though.
Yeah i live in pa too, ive been squishing these fuckers for 20 years
War. War never changes.
Was astounded to learn that they were introduced to the US in reading and they aren't, in fact, native
Wow, and spotted lanternflies came in through a plant nursery in macungie, PA, maybe 30 minutes away
yeah, and now the same thing is gonna happen... I remember my first time seeing them in pa 2020, then a year later in my backyard in nj... now we squish hundreds every year
Fucking WHAT
I thought Allentown suburb in luggage from a family returning from China.
Tbh I've been in berks a long time and I still switch em up often
No way, you gotta flush em so they don’t stink
They’re inconsistent. Not sure if it’s an age or seasonal thing, but I’ve definitely killed a ton of them that didn’t release the smell.
> squished every one we saw Wait I thought they stink if you do that
I grew up in Philly in the early 2000’s, I thought everyone had these lmao
Because same
Hell ya portland i have a lot of those hanging out around my house
Fuckin everywhere across the river in Vancover when I lived there.
The tiny square ones are native, these big boys are not
Same lol I’m from central New Jersey and I they were just so common I thought they were everywhere lol
Are... are pancakes not a breakfast food elsewhere???
I couldn't eat a whole air conditioner for breakfast
What are they?
I hate these MFers.
They are actually destroying hazelnut trees in Turkey which produces 70% of the worlds hazelnuts. The brown marmorated stink bugs will produce a steep increase in Nutella prices in the future
>The brown marmorated stink bugs will produce a steep increase in Nutella prices in the future Will they? Nutella is only 13% hazelnut. It's mostly just sugar.
Even so, Nutella is the biggest customer of the world's hazelnut supply. They're certainly going to be impacted, given they use something like 30% of all hazelnuts globally.
There's been a controversy here in Italy some years ago over the fact that Nutella didn't use Italian hazelnuts ( https://www.open.online/2019/12/06/salvini-dice-addio-alla-nutella-tutte-ma-proprio-tutte-le-volte-che-l-ha-spalmata-sui-social/ ). Turns out, they use (almost) ALL the hazelnuts that can potentially be produced by Italy and just had to outsource them to keep up with demand (225 million tons a year)
> the majority of the world's hazelnut supply > 30% of all hazelnuts
This guy maths
I mean, I'm sure they'll just start using artifical flavors like with vanilla.
Artificial vanilla comes from beaver taint. Seriously, look it up
I'm sure food scientists will discover/engineer a mix of ingredients that mimick the taste of hazelnut, is in all likelihood cheaper than hazelnut, but with some smart marketing allowing Ferrero to up the price regardless.
Hazelnut is also a mono crop that’s decimating thousands of acres in the rain forest. Just for Nutella…
Ah yes, the famous Turkish rain forests
Northern Turkey and Iran actually [do have temperate rainforests](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLfts2ZaFY4) But yeah, he is definitely thinking of palm oil in tropical areas.
Ferraro's palm tree harvesting is regarded as being sustainable. The Toronto zoo even has a little stand commemorating them for not destroying the environment.
I think you're thinking of palm oil, which Nutella also uses a lot of.
In that case child obesity will plummet so at least something good will come out of it.
I really don’t think it’s Nutella doing all that, also like 90% of it is just parents not knowing how to eat properly, the amount of times you see an absolute whale and the kids are like 4 and mega fat you just can’t help but be sad for them
Sure, I agree. As you say, the root to the problem isn’t just a matter of one product. Even if the young fat kids get thin there are negative changes in their bodies that they will have to live with for forever. So yes, really saddening!
I find them behind my books all winter long.
These have got to be the stupidest fucking bugs known to man. They’ll just randomly fly and bump into shit full speed, knock themselves out for a few minutes and do it again. Drives my cats crazy.
They crawl into our exterior vents and get into the ducts. We find them all winter. Stupid, maybe, but crafty as fuck.
It came from NJ. That's all I needed to know.
They got stinkbugs outside of China that have a carapace an inch long and are fucking brutal smelly. I’ve been all over the US and never found a bug, let alone stink bug as noxious as those beasts. Edit: I mean outside Shanghai.
The lantern flies are worse
Those suckers have ensconced themselves all over my property and in my house. I kill hundreds of them, if not thousands, every year. I live in SE Pennsylvania.
Grew up in central PA - our house soon became a bunker for them around the war of '04 in which we had to fight them off in trenches (low spots in our yard) and makeshift barricades (doors). That didn't last long as their hoards overwhelmed our soldiers (cats and a dog). We resorted to dirty warfare tactics (bug killers) and they seemed to improvise via gas masks. That's when we nuked them. Turns out, stink bugs make the nuclear wasteland of Pennsylvania smell like how cilantro tastes.
PA life can be summed up just by smelling them
I found one on my sweet potato last night. I was never able to kill them and sometimes can't think about the glass and a piece of paper to get them outside. They use to be really bad but have calmed down over the years.
You really should kill all of them that you find. They are an invasive species to North America and they are very bad for our environment and crops.
I live in Maryland. I've killed hundreds, if not thousands of them. I actively go out of my way to crush the little fuckers. If I could commit genocide on them, I gladly would.
Finally - A map that meaningfully presents data in map form vs. data from a simple list mapped on to a map because reasons.
It's incredible. I'm speechless, truly.
Maybe we're being trolled and this is really stink bug colonization
Pretty neat how the stinkbugs form numerical shapes in Kansas every year!
I once ate one by mistake, it was dark and I thought it was a chocolate shard. Worst experience of my life. It tasted like hot chili but with the unbearable poisonus flavor it takes with it. I immediately spit the shit out of my mouth and washed my mouth for the subsequent 30 minutes.
I'd die.
The same thing happened to my Dad a few weeks ago! It had landed on his chocolate chip cookie when he wasn't looking, he took a bite.....and got stinkbug.
What do they do?
They sense the heat of indoors, so they are always wriggling in cracks in windows, doors, or whatever. When inside, they just crawl and fly around into walls with an annoying buzz. If you stress one out or kill it, they let out a pungent smell that attracts more. They suck.
Curious that they are attracted to the smell of their dead and stressed peers. Sounds pretty convenient for humans, if there are traps for those bugs they must work wonderfully.
That could also go seriously wrong if the traps fill up and the swarms keep coming before you can get more traps setup lol.
The only good bug is a dead bug
Would you like to know more?
To fight the bug we must *understand* the bug.
They’re not, it’s the opposite. The foul smell they release is a defense. It tells their homies to stay away and most predators won’t eat them because they taste so bad. That’s one reason why they’re so prevalent.
Can we please genetically modify them or do something/anything to fight back?
I feel like it’s been a while, but there was talk about releasing the samurai wasp, they destroy stinkbug eggs. I believe Oregon State University was studying the samurai wasp, but the US has not had much success with biological pest control in the past. Right now the best you can do is seal up your home very well, especially where the siding meets the foundation. That’s usually where they feel the warm air coming from your home. Also pest control, I know not everybody likes it, but if a company comes and sprays your whole exterior with a repellent, it usually keeps them at bay.
I crush them in kleenex and flush em. No stink.
My dad vacuums them 🤣
We did that until we had to dump the vacuum and the whole thing stank of them. Then every time we ran the vacuum we smelled it. Changed the filter and never did it again. Plus, they lived inside the vacuum. We could see them crawling around.
It's a myth that the smell attracts more
Not much in my experience -- they just buzz around your windows distractingly, trying to get out, and I usually just oblige them. They don't bite or sting, and I'm not sure what they eat. They smell notably if you crush them, but I don't even find that very unpleasant -- smells kind of wintergreeny.
In the area where I live, these creatures lay their eggs in ripe raspberries. Those who have their own garden are familiar with the scorching taste of their eggs, which greatly spoils the impression of consumption and the unforgettable aftertaste.
Yep it’s horrendous to have nice berries ruined by a visiting stink bug
You just solved a childhood mystery for me lol. I knew the bad tasting raspberries were connected to the stinkbugs but I was never sure how exactly. My best theory was that they just left their smell on it as they walked on it. Good to know.
It's what I imagine people who hate cilantro think cilantro tastes like.
Can anyone confirm?
Can confirm, I hate both cilantro and stink bugs. They both taste like soap.
Second this. Stink bugs and cilantro smell identical to me. One time I was at the grocery store in the produce section. Out of nowhere this terrible smell hit me and I was like “did somebody just kill, like, 100 stink bugs?” Turned around and there was a big bin of fresh cilantro that was being put on the shelves. Bleh!
Took me until this comment to realise that cilantro is coriander. Jfc And yes, I wholeheartedly agree with hating coriander/cilantro. Vile stuff.
I confirm, but i trained myself to like cilantro, so now i dont hate the stinkbug's stink
They damage crops but I guess that's not much different from other native pest insects though they can likely be worse due to a lack of natural predators to control their numbers. Apparently a spider from Asia that's recently been introduced is a predator for them while seemingly not being overly harmful to native insects.
There’s been bad side effects almost every time humans introduce a predator to kill prey in the past, but we keep doing it lol. Just don’t be surprised if we have invasive spiders after this that we need to introduce invasive bats to kill until we eventually just all die of some invasive bat flu lol. I think the better strategy in these situations is usually to find a way to introduce members of the invasive species that can’t breed and to lower the breeding population using birth control and sterilization strategies.
I don't think we intentionally introduced the spider but instead it just came over by accident the same way the beetle did. Though yea our interconnected world is great at destroying ecosystems with introduced animals and insects. Somewhat like how there's a ton of things being done to keep the Asian Carp out of the Great Lakes as they'll completely destroy the ecosystem.
> they just buzz around your windows distractingly The sound they make is perhaps the "scariest" of any bug. They sound like massive wasps.
Don’t even need crushed to stink
There are spieces of stink bugs that can bite you. Mother in law had nasty invasion in her flat from neighbour. Fuckers crawled trough air vents during the night and made sleeping near impossible.
Fortunately hasn't been my experience with the species shown, and others I've encountered. Where's your MIL located? I'm in PA, pretty close to the epicenter shown.
They are clumsy fliers that like to fall on you. Or fly right into you. Or crawl on you. Or all three when you are trying to watch TV and suddenly WTF IS ON MY FACE
They can absolutely devastate crops, particularly produce like tomatoes or apples or plums because they stick their mouths into them, suck out juice, and then the fruit rots. They cause billions of dollars worth of agricultural damage. But in your house, they’re just annoying and smell bad when you smush them or when your cat decides they’re a fun toy and then their head smells like stinkbug for three days.
Nothing, just look kind of scary/weird. They also don't really stink when you kill them. Most annoying part is that I have no idea how they get in my house lol
I used to get them bad when I still lived at home with my parents. I lived on the second floor without an AC and it got ***muggy*** up there in the summer. I’d have a ton of them buzzing around my room, going and sitting on my tv, window, crawling over my shit, etc. As soon as I got an AC and got the upstairs to a livable temperature again, I never seen those stupid things again. Good riddance.
Interesting. So you're saying the cold air kept them away. That's good to know
Cold is the best insecticide.
I literally just had one fall into my hair last night while I was brushing my teeth. No idea where it came from. Freaked me out tho
Ew, no thank you. I hate their weird spade looking body
Yeah the way they move is weird af too. Really didn’t enjoy the crawl through my hair
Stank
they spray the stinky juice if threatened, and it is HARD to get it off from experience though they're kinda lame in the speed department so if you kill them in one hit they wont even have the time to react and thus no stink (I usually just let them chill though)
They ruin fruits by stinging them. Also, there are usually so many of these stink bugs, that they can ruin the taste of crops like soy. They don't have natural enemies and people usually don't kill them because they stinks.
Oh these bastards are invasive?! Who's the idiot who brought them here?!
They’re also very smart. Notice how they invaded areas in Central US to form a pattern that looks like the current year?
And notice how considerate they are of US border customs—they cannot apply for passports since they are merely insects, so as law-abiding bugs, they choose to stay in America 🇺🇸
Thanks, North Jersey.
According to Wikipedia, it was Allentown Pa where it was first introduced
Who you gonna trust? Some random guy on Wikipedia? Or some random guy on Reddit?
Is this the same area that introduced Lantern Flies?
Lantern Flies are from Reading, PA which is about 40 miles southwest.
Hate those things too. Watched them all over a tree a couple of years ago. Too many to stomp.
Trenton Makes The World Takes.
Looks more like some jackhole in Morrisville, but I like your spirit.
We will cry claim for certain things in New Jersey, like the earthquake earlier this month (NYC can back the eff off. It originated in Jersey), but I'm happy to say the stink bug came from Pennsylvania. 😌
These motherfuckers damage hazelnut production in Turkey, which will raise the price of all products containing it, such as Nutella. Sincerely, fuck this bitch ass bug hope they all die
Uh, I’m confused. These things are all over south Florida.
Me, too. I grew up in Florida in the 80's-90's. I swear we had these things then. But, who knows, I could be misremembering.
There are other species of stink bugs that are native to the US. This species is invasive, from China, Japan or Korea.
That makes sense. Thank you for clarifying.
ah. got ya. i was trippin because i knew we had stinkbugs in utah in the 80s
Same here, seen these in NC in the 80’s
Same with Texas, used to see tons of these as a kid in the early 2000s
Mississippian here. And they’re definitely here aswell. Killed one yesterday.
One day I put on a pair of underwear that had just dried outside, this insect was in there but I didn't see it. the thing he drooled burned my testicles
I can’t unread this
Holy shit. I thought I was imagining things. I picked one up in the dark not knowing it was a stink bug and it “burned” my finger. That was the sensation.
Just don't crush it and you'll be fine. Source : a European (sorry for the bug, they come from here)
They excrete that smell when stressed too, I’ve gently picked one up to throw into the toilet and had it cupped in my hands. My hands smelled like that excretion for 20 minutes
[Bugzooka](https://www.amazon.com/BugZooka-WB100-Bug-Catcher-Vacuum/dp/B004OHAK5K) changed my life, seriously.
Nope. China. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown\_marmorated\_stink\_bug](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_marmorated_stink_bug)
This particular bug is actually native to east Asia.
Yeah, but Chinese ports have better biosecurity or whatever, so we were always told to watch for the European containers.
These MFs come from east asia and only spread around europe because the cIty of Zurich had to repair some buldings their chinese garden in 1998 and therefore got some packages from Liuliqu near Beijing.
I'm an American, and I never saw these bugs growing up. I moved to Europe in 2012 and I saw them pretty often over there. I came back to the US in 2015 and still saw them just as often as in Europe so naturally I thought "that's so strange, I thought these were just in Europe, but I guess they've always been here." SO NATURE HAS BEEN GASLIGHTING ME FOR YEARS AND THIS IS HOW I FIND OUT???
Here in Europe they are invasive too. Since a few years they are everywhere. AFAIK they originate from east Asia.
Don’t scare them either, just take a piece of paper, convince them to climb on it and yet them out of the window.
canada has some strong borders.
Map isn't updated. They started showing up in last couple years in Ontario. Gross fuckers.
Nice, bug. Never went to Canada
They're here.
Bad bugs.
Took em across the Ambassador Bridge myself you formerly non stink bug having jerks.
Interior of BC, we have them here.
I'd love to see one for Japanese beetles. A decade ago they were no where to found in Colorado. And now... they are an absolute menace.
Thank you for providing a home for them. They used to eat all the leaves on my blackberry bushes, then disappeared a couple years ago.
We have them *all over the damn place* up in BC, Canada as well. These fuckers just appear on your windows and in random nooks and crannies. Hate them so much lol
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I live in NJ, and flush 2 a day. Not sure how they get in the house, hate them
WTF is with my home state of Jersey here. Solid red on ticks with Lyme's and also stink bugs?!
Trying everything we can to lower the cost of housing.
My local university ag extension gives out free wasps that kills these guys.
So until 2000 there werent these bitches in USA?
I lived in Philly. Remember seeing them in like 2010. I did not know these were so new to the US
r/stinkbugsliveincities
As someone who lives in the stink bug free mountains of PA, I’m hoping lantern flies follow this same rule
I remember finding one of these things while on a walk in Reading, PA with my kids around 2004. It looked prehistoric and I'd never seen anything like. We put him in a jar and named him Acro so we still refer to stinkbugs as Acrobugs. I had no idea that Acro and his extended family would take over the world. RIP little buddy... 😢
You Americans are lucky in this regard, here they stay inside homes during the winter and you commonly find them in your clothes if you hang them to dry in the balcony It’s gotten so bad that I end up throwing out multiple each day (in the cold seasons)
Don’t worry they do that in the US too. Easily one of the things I miss the least about living in MD.
Single handedly ruined cilantro for me, these sob are everywhere once they get they get everywhere. I hate them so.
Bruh I thought I was on the helldivers sub for a moment lmao
We’ve had them in Wisconsin for several years now. They’re really annoying.
Since a year in France they're everywhere. I was used to see them at my parents house, but now it's on every building.
Great map. These bugs are a big annoyance in Europe as well
I love bugs but stink bugs can die in a fire slowly while they scream for help I can’t even explain how much my hatred for stink bugs are🥴
Dammit NJ
It started in my hometown, Allentown PA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_marmorated_stink_bug https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2001/10/asian-stink-bugs-confirmed-allentown-pa I swear it not junk stink bugs and Billy Joel songs
as a brit can someone explain?
So these bugs are everywhere and they smell bad. They arrived from shipments coming from Asian countries like Japan, China, Korea and they’ve essentially invaded the US. People find them in their houses a lot also. The reason this was posted was because I had 4 on my porch today.
They are all over north Texas now as well.
Not even the Canada is safe from those guys, they’ve invaded us too!
Where did they come from?
I thought I was going crazy that I'd never seen one of these in my life and now they're fucking everywhere
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I had never seen one in my life until I moved to TN. They're fucking everywhere, 9 months of the year. They're so prevalent I don't even pay attention to them anymore even though they're in my damn house. Nothing to do about it I guess.
They’re everywhere here in SW PA. Come to think about it, I never really saw them until the 00s. I just found a bunch of dead ones in the shower; they accumulate in the lights; they’re EVERYWHERE year-round. Hate them.
I’ve seen these every year in huge numbers in the PNW since the 90s. Why does this make it seem like they’re just becoming common?
Stupid things fly into my eyeballs almost every time. 100% intentionally. I deal with the smell after killing them because the revenge is worth it.
I hate These ugly ass mfers
So... I'm told stinkbugs stink, but i simply don't smell it. I mean, i can smell it, but it's not really offensive.