![]() I plan to build multiple traps and put them inside my attic, outside the house, and in any room that has a stink bug problem. When the weather cooled last week, I tested the trap outside and caught a few stink bugs next to my house. I researched various types of stink bug traps and I found a simple and inexpensive design based on a two liter soda bottle and a battery powered light. To combat the stink bugs this year, I plan to use battery-powered light traps to the catch the bugs. For most of last winter, the bugs would slowly emerge out of my walls and ceilings and clumsily buzz the lights and then settle upon a nearby wall. ![]() I noticed that hibernating stink bugs in my home were attracted to light. Read below for details about building a stink bug trap. I am hoping to catch as many of the bugs as possible before they enter the living space of my home. This year, I’m trying a different strategy. Both efforts failed to keep the stink bugs out. I hired a contractor to caulk the outside of my house and I sprayed poison on the siding of my house. Last December, I wrote a post about combating stink bugs. As fall approaches, the stink bugs leave the crop fields, orchards, and gardens and seek shelter under rocks, under mulch, and, unfortunately, inside of our houses. I fear the waves of bugs will grow with increasingly scary numbers as our weather cools down this autumn.ĭuring the summer months, the stink bugs target fruit and vegetable crops and threaten to taint the taste of our area wines. Unfortunately, my house and many other houses and businesses in our area have been targeted as hibernation havens by these relentless bugs. The brief, cool weather that we received last week seemed to motivate some of the bugs to seek out their winter home a little early in the season. I thought they were supposed to arrive in late September? It was a small wave, I saw about two dozen stink bugs crawling up the siding of my house to the soffits, no doubt searching for an area to hibernate this winter. The first wave of stink bugs arrived at my house last week. The bugs were trapped on August 10, 2011. Three stink bugs were lured into a homemade trap that was made from a two liter soda bottle, tape, and a battery powered light.
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