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Stink bug spread worries growers across nation
Yahoo News ^ | May 20, 2011 | David Dishneau and Genaro C. Armas

Posted on 05/22/2011 3:10:09 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued

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To: Clintonfatigued

No natural predators.

Only Monitor 4 spray, delivered in copious amounts by land, sea, and air, will effect them.

It is a neurotoxin.

It kills EVERYTHING in it’s path.

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war


21 posted on 05/22/2011 3:35:57 PM PDT by bigheadfred (I wish I was an Oscar Meyer wiener but Lindsay Graham beat me to it.)
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To: Red_Devil 232; All
As you know, stink bugs come in a variety of colors, with green being very prominent in the Deep South.

The key for gardeners is to recognize the infants and juveniles of the stink bug, which will cluster together for some time before they mature. They can be black & white or grey, or other colors, and they look nothing like the adults. They are easier to kill when very young.

Gardeners should look them up and recognize all stages, in order to protect the bounty.

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22 posted on 05/22/2011 3:36:12 PM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't wish doom on your enemies. Plan it.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

IMO, they look like panel van next to a Volkswagen alongside the Japanese beetle. Their main talent in a residential as opposed to an agricultural setting is utter lack of evasive skill, they sit there quite docile waiting to be crushed.


23 posted on 05/22/2011 3:36:20 PM PDT by gusopol3
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To: Clintonfatigued

They’re everywhere. arrrggggggggggghhhhhhh


24 posted on 05/22/2011 3:44:08 PM PDT by Carley (OBAMA, DO YOU HEAR ME NOW........... '67 BORDERS, IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN)
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To: gusopol3

I, for one, welcome our new stink bug masters. And if you need to know the names of those trying to exterminate you I can probably help with that. just saying....


25 posted on 05/22/2011 3:44:31 PM PDT by conservaterian (Sarah/DeMint '12)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde

Yep The ones around here are mostly green but have seen the grayish to browns around also.


26 posted on 05/22/2011 3:47:39 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Clintonfatigued

We have HUNDREDS of these guys in our house. I counted more than 70 around the kitchen window one day. That’s 70 at a single counting. What’s up with Japan? Kudzu, Snakehead fish, Chestnut blight, Japanese beetles, and now this?


27 posted on 05/22/2011 3:50:23 PM PDT by Doctor 2Brains (If the government were Paris Hilton, it could not score a free drink in a bar full of lonely sailors)
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To: Red_Devil 232

I have a garden in the south and this is the first I’ve heard of them. I live in Georgia.


28 posted on 05/22/2011 3:59:47 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Clintonfatigued
There is a wasp native to China called Trissolcus halyomorphae.

I am worried about the blowback from importing another exotic.
29 posted on 05/22/2011 4:04:06 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Time to beat the swords of government tyranny into the plowshares of freedom.)
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To: PA Engineer

Thanks, long but good video - I wondered why he did not tape the light to the outside bottom but it seems to work well the way he did it.


30 posted on 05/22/2011 4:05:24 PM PDT by TxDas (This above all, to thine ownself be true.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

They have been around the south for many years. You are very lucky not to have them.


31 posted on 05/22/2011 4:05:39 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: TribalPrincess2U
I wish I could keep walking sticks around here.

Are they natural predators against stink bugs? We get a substantial population of them around mid July.
32 posted on 05/22/2011 4:06:45 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Time to beat the swords of government tyranny into the plowshares of freedom.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

They must taste bad too because the chickens and ducks won’t even eat them.


33 posted on 05/22/2011 4:07:12 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. -- John Steinbeck)
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To: PA Engineer

Why? What could possibly go wrong? </s>


34 posted on 05/22/2011 4:08:44 PM PDT by Gumption
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To: bigheadfred
This is what japanese beetles look like, could tell them apart easily.

But sounds like they're working their way west, just like the jap beetle has.

The traps attract more to your garden. The only way I've seen them effective is where you can encircle your garden area by placing them several yards outside of it. They are yucky to clean, change, and keep up with.

I remember the green stink bug since I was a kid but not this one. Anything that would work in the midwest to eradicate both of these pests would be a good thing. In the east they have introduced a parasitic fly that feeds on the female but not before she's laid some eggs.

The U of MI has been working on a virus that will spread from adult to adult, but that was a few years back, and I haven't heard of anything since.

The only pesticide that really works are those in the neocontinoid class which have residual action, even after a rain, but it kills bees and wasps. I sprayed with Sevin, and it washed right off the next rain, used the max recommended by gardeners, and didn't seem to phase the pests.

Milky spore doesn't work well in the midwest.

One thing my neighbor used that might work on the stink bugs, too, is food grade diatomaceous earth, wet down the plants and sprinkle. It's gritty, and they don't like it. Don't know if it would be cost effective for a large growing operation or not.

35 posted on 05/22/2011 4:10:28 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: Clintonfatigued

I understand that the Democrats are going to offer the stink bug amnesty and instate college tuition.


36 posted on 05/22/2011 4:12:39 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: Clintonfatigued

Besides losing our massive edge in production and manufacturing this is but another stab in the back from China and the free traders and the USA second or third or fourthers that have influence in our government.

These critters represent a plague on us that those who like the Commies more than the USA have foisted upon us. My GOP Congressman that I once supported heavily has never opposed a free trade pact. Should that bother me? But it does.


37 posted on 05/22/2011 4:14:07 PM PDT by apoliticalone (Honest govt. that operates in the interest of US sovereignty and the people, not global $$$)
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To: Clintonfatigued

These bugs are the devil. They get into everything.


38 posted on 05/22/2011 4:16:35 PM PDT by School of Rational Thought (Tough enough to have survived the end of the world)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde

I usually don’t see them in numbers until Sept. or so, then they arrive and do damage to my tomatoes on the vine. Nasty holes in the fruit that at first I thought were caused by birds.


39 posted on 05/22/2011 4:19:17 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Clintonfatigued

we had stink bugs prior to 1998.


40 posted on 05/22/2011 4:22:04 PM PDT by Scotswife
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