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    Stink Bugs -- Any thoughts on how to get rid of them?

    We are being inundated with these things in NE Ohio. We clean the Florida room and several hours later there's a dozen more. Everyone says they are experiencing the same.

    Any ideas on how to get rid of them? Natural predator?

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    Professionally is the best way, but here are some others;

    http://stinkbugsguide.net/get_rid_of_stink_bugs.htm

    We've had them the last two winters here in WNC.
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    Really not much you can do about them, they're coming in from the outside. Paying an exterminator to get rid of the ones in the house will just leave a vacancy for more tenants.

    Use a shop vac on them, they may or may not be around next year too but after a year or two you'll not see much of them. That's been my experience.
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    They don't do anything btw, no damage or disease. Just a nuisance seeing them around.
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    You would probably like their predators less than the stinkbugs: https://entomology.ces.ncsu.edu/pred...tink-bug-eggs/
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    Funny you say fl room (resister hailing from Sw Fl) They gone get way, inna while. Don worry!

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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    We are being inundated with these things in NE Ohio. We clean the Florida room and several hours later there's a dozen more. Everyone says they are experiencing the same. Any ideas on how to get rid of them? Natural predator? Attachment 18144
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    We have palmetto bugs that you can saddle and ride, they look like giant roaches. We rarely see them inside we have a yearly extermination plan. Thats what I would do DG get an exterminator.

    We also have the pleasure of twice yearly invasion of love bugs
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