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Lucky we live in a damn forest i just woke up to one dive bombing me in bed i get at least 3 a day and have a flying bug paranoia so i wanna die every day
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These bugs are driving me bat shit insane. I have my room literally sealed... and somehow they are getting in. They are like little kamikazes, I hear them crashing into everything.
Me too . I found this online. Take a tube of cheap toothpaste and put it in a spray bottle fill it up with water. Spray outside around windows and doorways Its really helped at my place. They don't like the smell of it. Also peppermint liquid works just as well. They don't like minty smells
My 2 cents: I agree with using a second bottle to separate the light source from the capture chamber to make disposal easier. The other thing I would suggest is to use a fabric tape on the outside rather than a masking tape. Something like a medical tape would make it much easier for them to climb to their doom. I intend to make and test this tonight. Well thought out folks!
I used leftover black grill spray paint to spray the side of the bottle, left a portion of bottom clear for the light to shine through. I used small pieces of poster tape (double sided adhesive tape) to glue the top funnel portion to the bottle base. I also used poster tape pieces on the sides of the bottle for the bugs to crawl up. I got a cheap $1 L.E.D. light from Walmart (in a bin with small flashlights and head lights you put on your head in the camping dept). I placed the L.E.D. light in the base of a dark small plant pot and placed the bug bottle inside the pot over the light (stabilizes the bottle and holds the light). The light can be turned on before placing the bottle over it and the light doesnt get ruined from bug crap, and you dont have to maneuver a pen in the bottle to turn it on. Cheaper alternatives
+The BioDog Studios They're useful for ONE thing, and it's frog food. The damn bugs come back every year during winter, and I catch them and give them to my pet frog.
But they're not going to any time soon. Conversely, their numbers are growing at crazy rates for something that didn't even exist here in the U.S. until 1998.
Because of global warming their mating season which is in the early spring is increasing. So the populations of stinkbugs are increasing. That's when natural selection kicks in. The strongest stink bugs with the most immunities will survive and reproduce. now there's a large population of stink bugs that are difficult to kill even most insecticides won't do the trick. And since they're from Asia there's no natural predator here that can mainly consumer them. That's why they are becoming a problem in the usa.
I made several variations of this before I saw this video. I would quickly recommend that a piece of light cardboard be rolled around the bottom of the bottle instead of black tape and that it be long enough so that the light can be put UNDER it instead of inside it, this way you don't waste a light every time or play with the bugs to get the light back. What also works is get a big pot that you can fill halfway with soapy water and hang a light over it, a blacklight works best. I used an old fish aquarium, wrapped it in aluminum foil, and put a blacklight in the hood. Trapped several hundred a week.
i was watching this and i started to turn up my brightness but then he said they were attracted to light and i was like oh well then and i turned it down
I made this trap to use on my screened in porch where the stink bugs seem to love to gather and tried it for 3 weeks, a few stink bugs went in it but there were still a lot hanging on the walls and screen then I read that stink bugs put off a scent that attracts other stink bugs so I parked my wet dry on the porch and each time I seen one I sucked it into the Vac and sealed the end of the nozzle just to make sure it wouldn't crawl out. (the vac has a bag in it) after 2 weeks I did not see another stink bug and it has been 3 months now. Seems if you can keep them from spraying their scent to attach other stink bugs you can get rid of them
My 3rd grade class just made these for one of their final projects. Super easy! Several teachers will be testing out these traps as will our maintenance crew at our school. Excellent idea!
Thank you so much!!! I just made my first stink bug trap per your instructions!!! Everything I needed I found at the dollar tree- even the round led light!!!💐
To all those who say they don't kill these bugs (especially after people having MAJOR infestation problems, seen stories of houses that they found over 20,000 of these f*ckers in ONE house).....PLEASE send me your address so I can mail you all of them that I find since you like them so much -.-
Heather Atkins I missed Those comments. Some people actually believe that these bugs are reliable? They missed the fact that these bugs or what ever they are, are foreign and may have a greater purpose where they are from.
They do kill a lot of insects on most of our plants, but are not quite friendly on some, this topic is quite unsettling. If this bug benefits you than keep it going, and if it does not than eliminate them. I respect the way that you handle your live stock if you respect mine. Mann collect your stink bugs and sell or give them to whom values them. There.
So I made kind of the same thing today. Except, I powered it with LEDs powered by a solar charger. I also used the bottom of another Pepsi bottle inverted to house the lighting so I didnt have to mix lighting and stink bugs, now they will be easy to dispose of. Wrapped it with tape of course. For the ladder I used mesh tape for drywall, they should easily be able to climb up there. Also lined the inside of the bottle with clear insecticide. Made this all with leftover stuff in my garage.
just a sugestion for your idea use a double bottom on the bottle that slides onto the trap bottle to hold the light so it is removeable for battery replacement and to keep it clean i use a similar stile trap for japanese beetles a pile of them will stink horribly till you empty it
That's a genius idea! 👏🏼 Thank you for that! My biggest issue has been dealing with the light and not wanting to stick my hand or anything down inside to turn it on or off.
You need to make a version with an easy to remove light attatched to the bottom instead of inside the actual trap, that you can plug in, so you won't have to worry about changing batteries and stuff, then you can also add some soapy water to the inside of the trap, so whatever bugs fall into it won't even be able to climb up the walls because it'll be all slippery. Probably would be less stinky too :P
How about a minor improvement to even prevent them from climbing back up: rather than placing the light in the bottom of the Pepsi container, you place it UNDER the container. Then you can put some water in the container, with a few drops of detergent to break the surface tension, then when they fall in, they will drown. Similar to a wasp trap with the fluid on the bottom.
I saw another trap that was supposedly tested by Va Tech. A pan of soapy water and a full spectrum light, eq, I saw was a CF, shining done on the water.
Just ran out to get the light. Found at the Dollar Tree for $1.00 each and they had an eight pack of batteries for $1.00. I will be trying it with these. It may work as well as the 6.00 light you mentioned. I hope so.
It's 11 p.m. at night and a stink bug just started flying under a light in my living room. I didn't know what it was until my little dog found where it landed and I looked it up on Google. Just found your video. Thank you for sharing! Looks like there's some work to do in starting to reinforce seals around the outside my home and making a few traps to lay out at night. Oh, goodness!
This is an excellent trap for these pesty stink bugs!! Here in NY in February, we still see them on a daily basis! The worst is when they get in the bed! 😩😵 They may be harmless but they are scary looking enough that my children and I prefer to remove them. Thanks for sharing this great tip!
I appreciate three things from watching this video: 1. Seriously, how is this not on Shark Tank? 2: Almost PC way of telling people to suffocate them stank bugs to death. 3. "terrorists" is the only word for these bugs.
Disposal tip. After collecting a bunch of bugs, we stick the whole trap in the freezer for about 30 mins. This kills the bugs, or slows them do enough to easily empty into the toilet. This saved us from making new traps after throwing the bug filled traps away and from a melee of not dead bugs flying free in the bathroom when we tried to empty.
You can trap stink bugs outside by hanging a wet towel. Drape it over a chair or clothes line around dusk. In the morning, you should have a big collection. Just dunk the entire towel into a bucket of soapy water. This will not get rid of stink bugs completely but it will help to reduce their population. I have had major success using neem oil. I love it because it is 100% safe and natural. I have kids and dogs so I don't like to use harsh chemicals around my home. I spray it on plants and around my windows and doors. There is a video on my youtube channel about how to use it to eliminate stink bugs if anyone needs more information.
I've heard of folks using neem oil before with success, I'll have to try it. I have had success also with treating my window screen / sills with Denatured Alcohol as well. Trouble is that's a tab pricey and requires re-application for good effect. More frequent applications to start then maintenance as you see the need.
I wonder if this works with the harlequin stinkbug in Australia. I got their numbers down by raking up all the dry leaves under a spruce tree where they were wintering. I did it in the heat of summer so they scattered and died of exposure. Soapy water kills the infant's but I did notice that they love water, I have some plants that must be filled with water for the lilly to come and they segregate here. Thanks for your comment. I'm sharing this on the garden site.
JoJoZen: they say diatomaceous earth works well. Dust it on all your shrubs and the leaf litter--it adds calcium to the soil and dries out their exoskeletons.
Great Idea, but they want more heat than the LED can provide. So I built the trap just like you described only I modified the bottom with a small candle bulb wired into the bottom. Puts off the heat they are looking for and seems to be working better than the LED. Im going to modify it again with a "Roof" of sorts and a mirror to reflect the light back inside to prevent them from going to the ceiling and looking down inside which seems to happen 50% of the time. -Thanks for the Great idea!
I am a (now retired) high school principal and used to have these bugs drop out of my fluorescent overhead light onto my desk. Never had a teenager make me scream like these bugs did.
Spiders are our friends. Except for those damn fiddlebacks (what yankees call a brown recluse). Fiddlebacks must die, the rest of them I leave to their calling.
Trust me, once you see a camelback cricket in your basement climbing on walls and jumping 20ft in the air, you will start having coffee and tea with stinkbugs.
I like these traps -- I have a few of them made. I made some minor changes with mine though -- I put water in the bottom of the bottle, along with dish soap. When they go down the funnel they hit the soapy water and die in about 5 minutes or so. It works very well at killing them, and it's safe. I put the light underneath the bottle and have the bottle rest on top of the light, so it still makes them want to fly inside. You don't have to use the soapy water though -- another good way to kill them is to put the entire trap in the freezer (once it's full...obviously!); they will be frozen & killed or slowed down enough to stop moving entirely in about 1-2 hours or so. Then dump and flush or dump them outside in a compost. Also -- these traps work very well when used "manually" as well, without the light. If you see a bug on the wall / window / ceiling, take the trap in your hands and try to get it around the bug and knock it down into the funnel. Once it's in there, it will not be able to get out. Works better than crushing them, most of the time they won't release the stink smell, but sometimes they will anyway, as just disturbing them can cause them to release it automatically -- they don't have to be crushed / killed instantly for them to release the stink...but most of the time I've found that using the funnel manually on a live one won't cause it to release the stink.
+surgeyX Nice! I had the same idea, I was thinking of somehow putting the light underneath the OUTSIDE of the trap, so that I could turn it on and off easier between night and day. I imagine these traps really work the best at night, but not really during the day, right? I plan to make a bunch and I don't want to have to disassemble each one every morning to shut off the light. With the light on the outside, the soapy water is another good idea. I couldn't find these lights at the local Home Depot (Lowe's had them though), so researched the suggested light on Amazon and it seems that the current version shuts off automatically after 30 minutes. No good! So I found these and will try them: www.amazon.com/Fulcrum-30010-301-Battery-Operated-Stick-On-Silver/dp/B000R7PM36/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top?ie=UTF8 or maybe these: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00K7J06P8/ref=pd_luc_rh_sbs_01_03_t_img_lh?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I'm thinking I can create some kind of base for the trap. Maybe a cardboard strip a little deeper than the light, to tape around the bottom of the bottle so I can tape the light to the outside bottom of the bottle and the trap won't have to balance on the light. In fact, using this method, I wouldn't even have to tape the light to the bottle. Then I can easily set the traps when it gets dark by turning them on and in the morning, I'll just shut the lights off to save batteries. My house is infested with these damned bugs and now I also have an army of ladybugs in here too! They also seem to go for the lights, so I think these will make great dual stink bug/ladybug traps! Any other mods or improvements? Thanks and a big up to you in the 'Burgh. Great idea.
+MojoSpoonful Yeah those are the same kind of lights I use (the first link) -- just make sure to get rechargeable AA batteries for it, as it will eat through standard batteries that can't be recharged in no time. Yeah that's pretty much how I do it, put cardboard or some kind of material to block the light on the side so they want to go to the top of the bottle, and the light only shines through the bottle. I live in Buffalo, kind of close -- they were here all summer, but as it's getting colder now, they seemed to have died down quite a bit...hopefully they're not resting in dim corners of my house / basement / attic and want to come out when it snows and I have the heat turned on, lol.
I just came back from the future to let you know, we still have stink bugs !!! but your invention is keeping them at bay. No Im from the year 2019 and they are invading us still..... LOL by the way I love how you said they get there friends to help them out..... LOL
Great video on how to build a cheap Stink Bug Trap. Those pesky things have been around my property all year. Since winter is coming on, I know they will increasing want to come inside. He states that a good place to locate is in the attic. I'm also experimenting with yellow jacket traps.
What I did is I just turned out the light that they were circling and I heard them hit the floor. So I took my lighter and scorched every one of them. It worked a treat.
I'm sure you've made modifications since this video, but how about seating the light inside a cardboard collar underneath the bottle a) it keeps the light shaded so they don't congregate underneath either the collar or the shaded taped area b) it allows you to turn out the light easily but mainly it allows you to drown the little buggers in the bottle, so ensuring they die quickly rather than slowly suffocating slowly,. Though I don't want to live with bugs I also don't want to torture them.
Yes, also it keeps you from having to touch the bugs to get the light out. Only thing is you have to shield the sides of the light so they just don't hang around outside the bottle.
LOL I need a half dozen of these.... spent last night catching the buggers around a light and flushing them down the drain in the sink. They are relentless.
"Obviously you're watching this video because you have a stinkbug problem" this is youtube i dont have any kind of bug problems i wasnt even searching anything about bugs in the first place i just ended up here.
thanks for the tip. I have been looking all over for something good to work and looks like i found it. I was thinking of something like this myself. I have a stand up light in one bedroom. It has the plastic upside down cone on the top. The stink bugs goes to the light and drop in. They cant crawl out. Plus the light (60-75 watt bulb) cooks them pretty fast. But I dont have two of them lights, so I need something in my bedroom. I've never seen them this bad before. I have no idea how they get in
I talked to an exterminator and he said they get inside your walls. I guess the bugs go outdoors when the weather permits. I don't know, just thinking. ; )
"..but he did it with a friend, he managed to hold on to a friend... friend... followed a friend, why do i call it a friend, call it little.. terrorist.. buddy" BAHAHAHAH a quote that will go down in history.
LMAO!! I never knew stink bugs were a problem in some parts of the country. Have seen a few of the buggers in my time but only a few. Great ingenuity, but you should've used a COKE bottle, LOL.
I'm going to use both homemade insecticidal soap and this bug catcher this year. Last year stink bugs were all over the garden. Thanks for sharing your cool design.
So you are saying that the stink bugs cannot climb the plastic unless there is the masking tape so why did you explain that the stink bugs ( once inside ) will climb the inside of the trap ( without tape )?
Very nice! I'm going to try this and put on in my attic! Only issue I see is light will need to be removed to replace batteries all the time. I'm thinking of using part of LED strip and threading thru hole in the bottle and sealing it with caulk or hot glue. If you use waterproof LED strip, it can even be submerged into soapy water so bugs will drown in it.
I don't have a stinkbug problem, but I came here after being reminded of Pumbaa and Timon. Why do they invade homes and where do they usually come from?
+Tony Vo They migrated from China, brought overseas on boats from cargo that was being shipped. They invade homes during the colder months to ride out the weather and keep from dying off. They don't do well in cold temps, so they seek warmth.
These creepers have destroyed all my green beans in my garden & killing off all my tomato plants too. Even the tomato worms started very early this year! Not a good year for a garden. Thanks for the video.
What most don't realize is that if you have house plants, stink bugs will pierce plant stems, leaves, flower buds and flowers and suck sap from them. This will eventually kill the flower buds causing them to wither and also the plants to die. I have experienced this with orchids, bonsai trees, as well as other house plants..
I just pulled jeans out of my dresser and about 6 fell out on the floor. Shook them, a few more fell out. Put them on, still had some on the inside! Freaked, pulled a fresh pair, more stinkbugs. WTF!!! I just did laundry 2 days ago and they all seem to be getting into my dresser and clothes!!!! Losing my mind, hate these things! If they like light, wth are they all in the top drawer of my dresser?! My place is tiny and I keep it very clean because it's the size of a shoebox and gets cluttered easily. I'm bleaching floors, walls, dresser (inside & out), window sills, they keep leaving their smell everywhere. I wanna puke. One landed in my coffee yesterday and I ended up tasting the smell. PLEASE HELP! WW3 between my place and asian stinkbugs has begun! Im losing the battle, wanna win the war!
Happy Gilmore I tape my windows closed from September until November!! They leave a trail so once one gets in the rest will follow. Have sprayed them with Clorox Bathroom cleaner and they STILL LIVE!!! Just gotta be vigilant and kill every single one you see. Good luck
I never knew anything about stink bugs until we moved into our home going on 4 years ago. They are a pain in the @$$, but as stated kill each one you see. I need some type of preventive measures now though 🤔!
I just started looking up bugs because one stinkbug climbed on me and got to my crotch, once I actually felt it I thought it was my underwear so i just tried to move it a bit but then i felt it and since i put pressure on it I smelled it (smelled like burned plastic) so i got it in my hands somehow then i panicked and threw it somewhere. I found it a few minutes later and just sprayed it with air freshener to kill it and get rid of the stink. It didn't kill it but it did help the stink and "freeze" it in one place. (I didn't know what it was but i knew it was immobilized) So now that it wasn't moving I took my old phone and started beating the thing until i knew it was dead. Then I took a tissue and threw it away. When I looked it up based on appearance (and the guess by the smell) and I figured out it was a stink bug so then I looked up if it was dangerous which thankfully it isn't (unless you're infested) I only had one that I know of but I eventually saw this video and it looked cool so I clicked it. I am not sure why I commented this and sorry if i wasted your time.
I don't know if this thing would work for stinkbugs, the problem would be with the attractant. I made a bunch of these things for yellow jackets, used apples and bacon to attract them, they worked pretty good. I had a nest I couldn't get to to burn them out, put 'em near the nest and they caught most of the bees. We have hundreds of stinkbugs, I put a long PVC pipe on the end of a shop vac and grab them from the side of the house.
+JustSomeGuy yea well not everyone is so bright. Hence the person whining about it costing 25 when you can make it for almost free if you have the stuff at home. ..there is a cost for convenience etc. I think it is a genius idea and nice for him to share the idea for freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. He could have thought it up and marketed it only. So be grateful.
thanks for posting this...i have had the worst infestations for the last 5yrs in eastern p.a.. i've tried that trap at wal-mart with the "pheromone" and i caught one single fly! i was just browsing the Plow and Hearth catalog, and they have that same pheromone trap for sale (useless). it reminded me of the segment of you on the news i saw about a year ago. going to lowe's right now to pick up some lights and then off to the supermarket for a couple of 2 ltr bottles, maybe 3 ltr,LOTS OF BUGS!
Sure they can fly, but they are EXTREMELY clumsy and clunky. Having one nimble enough to maneuver it's way out of that thin bottle opening would be nothing short of spectacular.
Pshhh,MY way is "simple" ALSO,and didn't cost ME a dime! While watching my flat-screen Tv in the evenings (the rest of the room is dark),Stinkbugs fly ONTO the screen as it's the only source of light in the room. Then I take a tiny clear plastic bag that's palm sized,with a ziplock closure at the end of it and I open the bag up with my fingers and carefully place it OVER the stinkbug on the screen,and take a business card to slide underneath the bag (to remove their legs from the flatscreen) and once they fall into the bag,I simply use the ziplock to close it,then stick the bag into the freezer which kills them in less than an hour,then take it out of the freezer,open the bag and throw their corpses onto the lawn where the Birds eat em! :)
Definitely trying this. These bugs are all over here in NC. They’re annoying! I can deal with them but my wife freaks out. I usually spray them with a bottle of water mixed with dawn dish soap
You gotta be sh*ttin' me...(toilet humor) How a handful of bugs will clog a sewer line? No idea on that one. (Been in the 'fixit' biz for over 40 years and never saw such a thing.)
I'm becoming obsessed in exterminating these things. I live rural & I've got them very bad. Can't tolerate them. Where have all the ladybugs gone? We now have these horrible critters in the Fall trying to get inside. Spring too! Yikes! Thanks, for taking the time to do this video. I appreciate you took the time to study these lil terrorists. I took an entomology class a few years ago & these critters were hardly mentioned. Yet, another invasive species on my turf. I'm making these traps tomorrow for these lil stinkers.
For the longest time I was wondering if anyone clever would come up with a good stink bug trap. This looks like the real McCoy. I'll try it. It sure beats going on Stink Bug patrol with my vacuum cleaner...
I have a 7 foot butterfly net, catch them, and feed them to chickens. They LOVE them! But I will try the trap- and the outside deterrents-, as I am weary of getting up every 10 minutes to catch them! And they get "through" a lot smaller than 3 pennies…
After watching this video, I watched Andrew Strube's video, "How to Catch Stink Bugs" and made some suggestions. Stink bugs are attracted to other stink bugs because of their scent, and you are not supposed to crush them. I don't think that we want our water to stink, so I don't think that it is a good idea to flush them in the toilet. I've heard some people say that they vacuum them up, but if they get agitated they spray their scent and it is expelled from the vacuum all over your home and they are attracted all the more. The best bet it to find out where they are coming in, i.e. the fire place, soffits of roof and cover holes with a mesh that they cannot fit into to keep them out. Otherwise, they are going to scent up your house and come back every year.
I agree w/ all of your points!! I've found out that flushing them works and I've yet to smell their disgusting smell yet. But there's always a chance that could change. I watched a video where a guy put a trap full of them in his freezer. I don't know...there was just something disturbing about the thought of putting them in there around my food and then them spraying before dying due to the stress of the cold air makes me sick. LOL.
It is that time of the year again where they fester in the attic and gain access through roof top nooks. crannies and chimneys. I usually capture them into a container...it is a fun game like being zapped in operation, you try not to be stinked by the bugs. I think capturing them and burying them in the yard is good...especially in areas where pests may be entering your property. I wouldn't suggest putting them in the toilet...don't want to be drinking stink water...we have enough problems with our drinking water as it is.
Thanks for the tip- somehow these stink f*+#€* found there way into my bedroom, only.. I've be catching, killing, and flushing about two a night. It makes sense it was always in pairs, I'd "get" one and within a few minutes there's a second. Its winter here, I think I'm allergic and I'm wondering do they go back outside when the weather changes?
Laura Pflug Laura, they aren't like ladybugs where the stink they make is the same as the attracting scent. When stinkbugs are clustered, they give off a 'come over here' scent to draw more to them so as to keep sheltered. It is a different smell than the stink smell they put out.
cover the top of the trap with a baggie, secure it with a rubber band then stick the whole trap full of the stinkers into my stand alone freezer, a few hours later they are done for and now I can flush them.
Neat. Only thing I question are the life of the batteries. How long will they last? Would be nice if the light could be turned off and on without taking the whole contraption apart.
+timwitt94 Yes, they do fly, but even so it's very hard to escape that kind of trap. They don't have the intelligence to fly out the same way they came in, so they pretty much just crawl around the sides and feel of the walls until they die. I've seen these kinds of traps used on bumblebees, and I don't think I've ever seen one escape.
+timwitt94 They can not fly straight up and very controlled like a fly can...they are clumsy and not very fast / reactive. Anyway, what I did with my trap was I put dish soap and water in the bottom of the bottle, so when they fall through the funnel, they get into the dish soapy water and die in about 5 min or so. I put the light underneath the bottle so they still see it and still want to fly into the funnel. You can also put the light in a water proof bag and actually put it inside the bottle if you want. Another tip...if you don't want to use soapy water, you don't have to -- to kill them, put the entire trap in the freezer for a bit -- they will all be frozen in about 1-2 hours, then just open the bottle and flush down the toilet or put them in a compost outside.
Thanks, I will have to make me quite a few. I also thought about how to turn the light out during the day-just poke a stick down to punch the light, then turn it back on at night.
*sees a single stink bug for the first time in my room in years: searches the internet for ways to cause extinction*
Lucky we live in a damn forest i just woke up to one dive bombing me in bed i get at least 3 a day and have a flying bug paranoia so i wanna die every day
Good you don't want those little shits. I'd take a house full of spiders before a house full of them, gladly too.
Raven Lunityc I have a spider that usually catches bugs but it's eating a bee rn there is 3 in my room like why prob because I attacked one
five minutes ago I woke up to 3 of them crawling on em under my shirt so I want you make them extinct
@@ravenlunityc1271 hahaha
The 400 dislikes are from the stink bugs
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Makes sense. They are attracted to light
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10 years later and this is still the best. Best video. Best Narration. Best Educational video. I love it. Thank you so very much.
1500 years later, lessons from the bible are turning out to be true after all
These bugs are driving me bat shit insane. I have my room literally sealed... and somehow they are getting in. They are like little kamikazes, I hear them crashing into everything.
Me too . I found this online. Take a tube of cheap toothpaste and put it in a spray bottle fill it up with water. Spray outside around windows and doorways
Its really helped at my place. They don't like the smell of it. Also peppermint liquid works just as well. They don't like minty smells
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My 2 cents: I agree with using a second bottle to separate the light source from the capture chamber to make disposal easier. The other thing I would suggest is to use a fabric tape on the outside rather than a masking tape. Something like a medical tape would make it much easier for them to climb to their doom. I intend to make and test this tonight. Well thought out folks!
This is straight to the point
Thanks really smart.
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I used leftover black grill spray paint to spray the side of the bottle, left a portion of bottom clear for the light to shine through. I used small pieces of poster tape (double sided adhesive tape) to glue the top funnel portion to the bottle base. I also used poster tape pieces on the sides of the bottle for the bugs to crawl up. I got a cheap $1 L.E.D. light from Walmart (in a bin with small flashlights and head lights you put on your head in the camping dept). I placed the L.E.D. light in the base of a dark small plant pot and placed the bug bottle inside the pot over the light (stabilizes the bottle and holds the light). The light can be turned on before placing the bottle over it and the light doesnt get ruined from bug crap, and you dont have to maneuver a pen in the bottle to turn it on. Cheaper alternatives
As I was watching this a stink bug flew across my room
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Me too. The reason why I'm watching this
Lmao one landed on my phone while I was laying in bed in the dark scared tf out of me
@@annagesaman7429 Can't wait for winter so they'll die
No fucking joke as i was watching this video in the dark on my laptop one of them crawled across my fucking shirt and about made me shit myself
They're Fricking Uselss
+The BioDog Studios They're useful for ONE thing, and it's frog food. The damn bugs come back every year during winter, and I catch them and give them to my pet frog.
Lol 😂
Thomas Yim Reporting you, Sorry
Carl Respuesto you suck
I will be happy when these bugs become extinct. They serve no purpose but to cause issues.
I had the exact same thought today. :)
OPINIONATED_JUNKIE I don't know I would think something would go wrong....
OPINIONATED_JUNKIE And Mosquitoes too
But they're not going to any time soon. Conversely, their numbers are growing at crazy rates for something that didn't even exist here in the U.S. until 1998.
Because of global warming their mating season which is in the early spring is increasing. So the populations of stinkbugs are increasing. That's when natural selection kicks in. The strongest stink bugs with the most immunities will survive and reproduce. now there's a large population of stink bugs that are difficult to kill even most insecticides won't do the trick. And since they're from Asia there's no natural predator here that can mainly consumer them. That's why they are becoming a problem in the usa.
I made several variations of this before I saw this video. I would quickly recommend that a piece of light cardboard be rolled around the bottom of the bottle instead of black tape and that it be long enough so that the light can be put UNDER it instead of inside it, this way you don't waste a light every time or play with the bugs to get the light back.
What also works is get a big pot that you can fill halfway with soapy water and hang a light over it, a blacklight works best. I used an old fish aquarium, wrapped it in aluminum foil, and put a blacklight in the hood. Trapped several hundred a week.
+James Hernandez That's exactly what I was thinking.
Me to. Light outside
good idea!
Light outside also allows you to simply add a bunch of soapy water to drown 'em.
I was thinking the exact thing, thanks for confirming that it works!
this made me laugh so much "friend? Pfft... little terrorist!" hahahahahaha!!! Good trap though, thanks for the video :)
One literally flew into my hair as I was reading comments about them flying around while watching this video.
This video and the comments are great! Stink bug haters unite!
Lynn Merrill you’re cringy
@@liammac0229 no u
@@liammac0229 Found the stink bug
Quick every one get this man a beer
i was watching this and i started to turn up my brightness but then he said they were attracted to light and i was like oh well then and i turned it down
😂😂😂😂
I made this trap to use on my screened in porch where the stink bugs seem to love to gather and tried it for 3 weeks, a few stink bugs went in it but there were still a lot hanging on the walls and screen then I read that stink bugs put off a scent that attracts other stink bugs so I parked my wet dry on the porch and each time I seen one I sucked it into the Vac and sealed the end of the nozzle just to make sure it wouldn't crawl out. (the vac has a bag in it) after 2 weeks I did not see another stink bug and it has been 3 months now. Seems if you can keep them from spraying their scent to attach other stink bugs you can get rid of them
My 3rd grade class just made these for one of their final projects. Super easy! Several teachers will be testing out these traps as will our maintenance crew at our school. Excellent idea!
Thank you so much!!! I just made my first stink bug trap per your instructions!!! Everything I needed I found at the dollar tree- even the round led light!!!💐
To all those who say they don't kill these bugs (especially after people having MAJOR infestation problems, seen stories of houses that they found over 20,000 of these f*ckers in ONE house).....PLEASE send me your address so I can mail you all of them that I find since you like them so much -.-
Heather Atkins I missed Those comments. Some people actually believe that these bugs are reliable? They missed the fact that these bugs or what ever they are, are foreign and may have a greater purpose where they are from.
They do kill a lot of insects on most of our plants, but are not quite friendly on some, this topic is quite unsettling. If this bug benefits you than keep it going, and if it does not than eliminate them. I respect the way that you handle your live stock if you respect mine. Mann collect your stink bugs and sell or give them to whom values them. There.
😂👍
So I made kind of the same thing today. Except, I powered it with LEDs powered by a solar charger. I also used the bottom of another Pepsi bottle inverted to house the lighting so I didnt have to mix lighting and stink bugs, now they will be easy to dispose of. Wrapped it with tape of course. For the ladder I used mesh tape for drywall, they should easily be able to climb up there. Also lined the inside of the bottle with clear insecticide. Made this all with leftover stuff in my garage.
just a sugestion for your idea use a double bottom on the bottle that slides onto the trap bottle to hold the light so it is removeable for battery replacement and to keep it clean i use a similar stile trap for japanese beetles a pile of them will stink horribly till you empty it
MetroplexPrime2009 That's genius!!!
That's a genius idea! 👏🏼 Thank you for that! My biggest issue has been dealing with the light and not wanting to stick my hand or anything down inside to turn it on or off.
You need to make a version with an easy to remove light attatched to the bottom instead of inside the actual trap, that you can plug in, so you won't have to worry about changing batteries and stuff, then you can also add some soapy water to the inside of the trap, so whatever bugs fall into it won't even be able to climb up the walls because it'll be all slippery. Probably would be less stinky too :P
We can't even make stinkbugs in America anymore. We had to import them from China. lol
Luke Borom: I hear they're from Egypt. They look kind of Egyptian, don't they? Like scarabs or dung beetles?
I love it...finally a sollution! Will tell all my friends and ask them to send pics of their traps! This is the best thing since the clapper!
How about a minor improvement to even prevent them from climbing back up: rather than placing the light in the bottom of the Pepsi container, you place it UNDER the container.
Then you can put some water in the container, with a few drops of detergent to break the surface tension, then when they fall in, they will drown.
Similar to a wasp trap with the fluid on the bottom.
I had the same idea! Great minds must think alike!😉
I saw another trap that was supposedly tested by Va Tech. A pan of soapy water and a full spectrum light, eq, I saw was a CF, shining done on the water.
Wonder if this works for garden
In one afternoon I caught enough to make a pie.
William Hunter 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
William No
Stink bug pie , uhmmmm i bet that would stink! lol
recipe plz tia
A cheap Michigan cottage business idea🤔🤣🤣🤣🤣
Just ran out to get the light. Found at the Dollar Tree for $1.00 each and they had an eight pack of batteries for $1.00. I will be trying it with these. It may work as well as the 6.00 light you mentioned. I hope so.
Michael Hall: how did it work? I'm going to dollar Tree for the lights, too. ,
The bugs must have won....😂😂
Holy shit. This video should've taken four minutes....max! Sheeeesh
I skipped through a lot of it. Lots of babbling. It's becoming a serious problem on UA-cam as more and more people make content.
@@Sevalecan this vid is from 2011 bro before all dat monetization
Good grief, yes! Aaaagh!!!
It's a good video and you have the ability to skip through the extra commentary. Don't be a dick
@Doctor Kikestein are you okay.. please see a doctor
It's 11 p.m. at night and a stink bug just started flying under a light in my living room. I didn't know what it was until my little dog found where it landed and I looked it up on Google. Just found your video. Thank you for sharing! Looks like there's some work to do in starting to reinforce seals around the outside my home and making a few traps to lay out at night. Oh, goodness!
This is an excellent trap for these pesty stink bugs!! Here in NY in February, we still see them on a daily basis! The worst is when they get in the bed! 😩😵 They may be harmless but they are scary looking enough that my children and I prefer to remove them. Thanks for sharing this great tip!
Thanks for the idea!!! Had one fly in my face while falling asleep last night & I am DONE!
I appreciate three things from watching this video:
1. Seriously, how is this not on Shark Tank?
2: Almost PC way of telling people to suffocate them stank bugs to death.
3. "terrorists" is the only word for these bugs.
Disposal tip. After collecting a bunch of bugs, we stick the whole trap in the freezer for about 30 mins. This kills the bugs, or slows them do enough to easily empty into the toilet. This saved us from making new traps after throwing the bug filled traps away and from a melee of not dead bugs flying free in the bathroom when we tried to empty.
Should we be flushing them down the toilet?
You can trap stink bugs outside by hanging a wet towel. Drape it over a chair or clothes line around dusk. In the morning, you should have a big collection. Just dunk the entire towel into a bucket of soapy water. This will not get rid of stink bugs completely but it will help to reduce their population. I have had major success using neem oil. I love it because it is 100% safe and natural. I have kids and dogs so I don't like to use harsh chemicals around my home. I spray it on plants and around my windows and doors. There is a video on my youtube channel about how to use it to eliminate stink bugs if anyone needs more information.
Chipp Marshal cool
I've heard of folks using neem oil before with success, I'll have to try it. I have had success also with treating my window screen / sills with Denatured Alcohol as well. Trouble is that's a tab pricey and requires re-application for good effect. More frequent applications to start then maintenance as you see the need.
They aren't outside they are in my room
I wonder if this works with the harlequin stinkbug in Australia. I got their numbers down by raking up all the dry leaves under a spruce tree where they were wintering. I did it in the heat of summer so they scattered and died of exposure. Soapy water kills the infant's but I did notice that they love water, I have some plants that must be filled with water for the lilly to come and they segregate here. Thanks for your comment. I'm sharing this on the garden site.
JoJoZen: they say diatomaceous earth works well. Dust it on all your shrubs and the leaf litter--it adds calcium to the soil and dries out their exoskeletons.
Great Idea, but they want more heat than the LED can provide. So I built the trap just like you described only I modified the bottom with a small candle bulb wired into the bottom. Puts off the heat they are looking for and seems to be working better than the LED. Im going to modify it again with a "Roof" of sorts and a mirror to reflect the light back inside to prevent them from going to the ceiling and looking down inside which seems to happen 50% of the time. -Thanks for the Great idea!
I am a (now retired) high school principal and used to have these bugs drop out of my fluorescent overhead light onto my desk. Never had a teenager make me scream like these bugs did.
Best stink bug trap ever is a cellar spider's web. I've got one living in the corner and that thing drops stink bugs like a boss.
I have thousands of stinkbugs, I would need at least hundreds of cellar spiders...
Spiders are our friends. Except for those damn fiddlebacks (what yankees call a brown recluse). Fiddlebacks must die, the rest of them I leave to their calling.
But that means you have to have spiders in the house😲😬!!! No thank you! I'd rather have a trap🍾 than a spider🕷!👀
10:42 that aged very well. Even 10 years later.
Thank you so much for an affordable trap!
Thank you so much for such a thorough demonstration. I’m looking forward to trying it out. 👍
I hate these stink bugs! I really hate them when they fly!
Trust me, once you see a camelback cricket in your basement climbing on walls and jumping 20ft in the air, you will start having coffee and tea with stinkbugs.
I like these traps -- I have a few of them made. I made some minor changes with mine though -- I put water in the bottom of the bottle, along with dish soap. When they go down the funnel they hit the soapy water and die in about 5 minutes or so. It works very well at killing them, and it's safe. I put the light underneath the bottle and have the bottle rest on top of the light, so it still makes them want to fly inside. You don't have to use the soapy water though -- another good way to kill them is to put the entire trap in the freezer (once it's full...obviously!); they will be frozen & killed or slowed down enough to stop moving entirely in about 1-2 hours or so. Then dump and flush or dump them outside in a compost. Also -- these traps work very well when used "manually" as well, without the light. If you see a bug on the wall / window / ceiling, take the trap in your hands and try to get it around the bug and knock it down into the funnel. Once it's in there, it will not be able to get out. Works better than crushing them, most of the time they won't release the stink smell, but sometimes they will anyway, as just disturbing them can cause them to release it automatically -- they don't have to be crushed / killed instantly for them to release the stink...but most of the time I've found that using the funnel manually on a live one won't cause it to release the stink.
+surgeyX Nice! I had the same idea, I was thinking of somehow putting the light underneath the OUTSIDE of the trap, so that I could turn it on and off easier between night and day. I imagine these traps really work the best at night, but not really during the day, right? I plan to make a bunch and I don't want to have to disassemble each one every morning to shut off the light. With the light on the outside, the soapy water is another good idea. I couldn't find these lights at the local Home Depot (Lowe's had them though), so researched the suggested light on Amazon and it seems that the current version shuts off automatically after 30 minutes. No good! So I found these and will try them:
www.amazon.com/Fulcrum-30010-301-Battery-Operated-Stick-On-Silver/dp/B000R7PM36/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top?ie=UTF8
or maybe these:
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00K7J06P8/ref=pd_luc_rh_sbs_01_03_t_img_lh?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I'm thinking I can create some kind of base for the trap. Maybe a cardboard strip a little deeper than the light, to tape around the bottom of the bottle so I can tape the light to the outside bottom of the bottle and the trap won't have to balance on the light. In fact, using this method, I wouldn't even have to tape the light to the bottle. Then I can easily set the traps when it gets dark by turning them on and in the morning, I'll just shut the lights off to save batteries.
My house is infested with these damned bugs and now I also have an army of ladybugs in here too! They also seem to go for the lights, so I think these will make great dual stink bug/ladybug traps!
Any other mods or improvements?
Thanks and a big up to you in the 'Burgh. Great idea.
+MojoSpoonful
Yeah those are the same kind of lights I use (the first link) -- just make sure to get rechargeable AA batteries for it, as it will eat through standard batteries that can't be recharged in no time. Yeah that's pretty much how I do it, put cardboard or some kind of material to block the light on the side so they want to go to the top of the bottle, and the light only shines through the bottle. I live in Buffalo, kind of close -- they were here all summer, but as it's getting colder now, they seemed to have died down quite a bit...hopefully they're not resting in dim corners of my house / basement / attic and want to come out when it snows and I have the heat turned on, lol.
@@MojoSpoonful you dont want to kill lady bugs...no no...they are great natural remedy for a lot of other bugs incl stink bugs..
The smell comes out the vacuum and it stays there for a long time, learned that the hard way.
I just came back from the future to let you know, we still have stink bugs !!! but your invention is keeping them at bay. No Im from the year 2019 and they are invading us still..... LOL by the way I love how you said they get there friends to help them out..... LOL
Great video on how to build a cheap Stink Bug Trap. Those pesky things have been around my property all year. Since winter is coming on, I know they will increasing want to come inside. He states that a good place to locate is in the attic. I'm also experimenting with yellow jacket traps.
8:00 You gotta wait til he starts calling them "terrorists! 😂
What I did is I just turned out the light that they were circling and I heard them hit the floor. So I took my lighter and scorched every one of them. It worked a treat.
a spray bottle with a 1/4 of it filled with Dawn dish soap, and the rest with water , kills them instantly , same for box alder bugs
Improvement tip: I add powered graphite to the insides( funnel and vertical) now there is no escaping :)
I'm sure you've made modifications since this video, but how about seating the light inside a cardboard collar underneath the bottle a) it keeps the light shaded so they don't congregate underneath either the collar or the shaded taped area b) it allows you to turn out the light easily but mainly it allows you to drown the little buggers in the bottle, so ensuring they die quickly rather than slowly suffocating slowly,. Though I don't want to live with bugs I also don't want to torture them.
Yes, also it keeps you from having to touch the bugs to get the light out. Only thing is you have to shield the sides of the light so they just don't hang around outside the bottle.
You need to get a grant from Pepsi for all the free endorsements!!! Love your ingenuity!!!
You have no idea what I picture every time you say something about stinkbugs watching the show.
i fucking hate these bugs
LOL I need a half dozen of these.... spent last night catching the buggers around a light and flushing them down the drain in the sink. They are relentless.
"Obviously you're watching this video because you have a stinkbug problem"
this is youtube i dont have any kind of bug problems i wasnt even searching anything about bugs in the first place i just ended up here.
This is great, but wow, this didn't need to be 11 minutes long lol.
Agree - coulda told the whole story in 2 mins or less. I just fast forwarded to the end to see the finished product. Got it.
Zoey Stretcher will you be my girlfriend
Yeah omg I was expecting to at least see the trap in action with such lenghty time xDD
I could not watch it. He drones on and on.
I'll wikihow it now.
thanks for the tip. I have been looking all over for something good to work and looks like i found it. I was thinking of something like this myself. I have a stand up light in one bedroom. It has the plastic upside down cone on the top. The stink bugs goes to the light and drop in. They cant crawl out. Plus the light (60-75 watt bulb) cooks them pretty fast. But I dont have two of them lights, so I need something in my bedroom. I've never seen them this bad before. I have no idea how they get in
I talked to an exterminator and he said they get inside your walls. I guess the bugs go outdoors when the weather permits. I don't know, just thinking. ; )
"..but he did it with a friend, he managed to hold on to a friend... friend... followed a friend, why do i call it a friend, call it little.. terrorist.. buddy"
BAHAHAHAH a quote that will go down in history.
instead of flushing them down the toilet, throw them on the dirt or if you have a compost pile, there :)
LMAO!! I never knew stink bugs were a problem in some parts of the country. Have seen a few of the buggers in my time but only a few. Great ingenuity, but you should've used a COKE bottle, LOL.
Thank you thank you!! Question--another guy said you could tape the light to the bottom on the outside..what do you think?
This is the longest 1 minute video I've ever watched.
I'm going to use both homemade insecticidal soap and this bug catcher this year. Last year stink bugs were all over the garden. Thanks for sharing your cool design.
Did it work in the garden?
Thank you... this is a problem we are having. Easy solution with no strong chemicals
So you are saying that the stink bugs cannot climb the plastic unless there is the masking tape so why did you explain that the stink bugs ( once inside ) will climb the inside of the trap ( without tape )?
they can fly
he added the tape down the sides just to make it easier for them to climb up to the top, plus you need a way to secure the funnel part.
Very nice! I'm going to try this and put on in my attic! Only issue I see is light will need to be removed to replace batteries all the time. I'm thinking of using part of LED strip and threading thru hole in the bottle and sealing it with caulk or hot glue. If you use waterproof LED strip, it can even be submerged into soapy water so bugs will drown in it.
these things always end up in my bed when i watch youtube at night.... its just nasty
Why in the hell did you say this? Now I am freaked out.
J Giza me too but it’s true
I don't have a stinkbug problem, but I came here after being reminded of Pumbaa and Timon. Why do they invade homes and where do they usually come from?
+Tony Vo They migrated from China, brought overseas on boats from cargo that was being shipped. They invade homes during the colder months to ride out the weather and keep from dying off. They don't do well in cold temps, so they seek warmth.
+Ashley Eaton i see... thanks!
A very informative 4-minute video that somehow lasted 11.38 minutes.
These creepers have destroyed all my green beans in my garden & killing off all my tomato plants too. Even the tomato worms started very early this year! Not a good year for a garden. Thanks for the video.
not worthless. informative. I learned a lot, because i am a patient person. That's what it takes.
Voice reminds me of Billy Bob Thornton.
What most don't realize is that if you have house plants, stink bugs will pierce plant stems, leaves, flower buds and flowers and suck sap from them. This will eventually kill the flower buds causing them to wither and also the plants to die. I have experienced this with orchids, bonsai trees, as well as other house plants..
I just pulled jeans out of my dresser and about 6 fell out on the floor. Shook them, a few more fell out. Put them on, still had some on the inside! Freaked, pulled a fresh pair, more stinkbugs. WTF!!! I just did laundry 2 days ago and they all seem to be getting into my dresser and clothes!!!! Losing my mind, hate these things! If they like light, wth are they all in the top drawer of my dresser?! My place is tiny and I keep it very clean because it's the size of a shoebox and gets cluttered easily. I'm bleaching floors, walls, dresser (inside & out), window sills, they keep leaving their smell everywhere. I wanna puke. One landed in my coffee yesterday and I ended up tasting the smell. PLEASE HELP! WW3 between my place and asian stinkbugs has begun! Im losing the battle, wanna win the war!
Happy Gilmore I tape my windows closed from September until November!! They leave a trail so once one gets in the rest will follow. Have sprayed them with Clorox Bathroom cleaner and they STILL LIVE!!! Just gotta be vigilant and kill every single one you see. Good luck
I never knew anything about stink bugs until we moved into our home going on 4 years ago. They are a pain in the @$$, but as stated kill each one you see. I need some type of preventive measures now though 🤔!
* throws them in * Look at it, they just fall in... xD
I just started looking up bugs because one stinkbug climbed on me and got to my crotch, once I actually felt it I thought it was my underwear so i just tried to move it a bit but then i felt it and since i put pressure on it I smelled it (smelled like burned plastic) so i got it in my hands somehow then i panicked and threw it somewhere. I found it a few minutes later and just sprayed it with air freshener to kill it and get rid of the stink. It didn't kill it but it did help the stink and "freeze" it in one place. (I didn't know what it was but i knew it was immobilized) So now that it wasn't moving I took my old phone and started beating the thing until i knew it was dead. Then I took a tissue and threw it away.
When I looked it up based on appearance (and the guess by the smell) and I figured out it was a stink bug so then I looked up if it was dangerous which thankfully it isn't (unless you're infested)
I only had one that I know of but I eventually saw this video and it looked cool so I clicked it.
I am not sure why I commented this and sorry if i wasted your time.
Was that the only one? Cause I just found one, screamed and punched it.
I don't know if this thing would work for stinkbugs, the problem would be with the attractant. I made a bunch of these things for yellow jackets, used apples and bacon to attract them, they worked pretty good. I had a nest I couldn't get to to burn them out, put 'em near the nest and they caught most of the bees. We have hundreds of stinkbugs, I put a long PVC pipe on the end of a shop vac and grab them from the side of the house.
There is one crawling on the wall right now
In order to make quick work of stink bugs in my garden, I use a hand-held cordless vacuum cleaner.
For 25 bucks, that Pepsi better be filled and it better come paired with an exterminator lol
Good idea, but this could have been explained in about one minute, rather than 12
+JustSomeGuy yea well not everyone is so bright. Hence the person whining about it costing 25 when you can make it for almost free if you have the stuff at home. ..there is a cost for convenience etc. I think it is a genius idea and nice for him to share the idea for freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. He could have thought it up and marketed it only. So be grateful.
thanks for posting this...i have had the worst infestations for the last 5yrs in eastern p.a.. i've tried that trap at wal-mart with the "pheromone" and i caught one single fly! i was just browsing the Plow and Hearth catalog, and they have that same pheromone trap for sale (useless). it reminded me of the segment of you on the news i saw about a year ago. going to lowe's right now to pick up some lights and then off to the supermarket for a couple of 2 ltr bottles, maybe 3 ltr,LOTS OF BUGS!
I don't have a stink bug investation i just am scared of them and i hate them
me to I get so many
I hate that they eat flowers. They're really pretty but thry stink. Why r u scared
@@angiewilliams9613 they are pretty cool looking. But gross me out in clusters :/
Sure they can fly, but they are EXTREMELY clumsy and clunky. Having one nimble enough to maneuver it's way out of that thin bottle opening would be nothing short of spectacular.
Thanks, man you hit a grand slam, I will never forget, youre a good guy.
Pshhh,MY way is "simple" ALSO,and didn't cost ME a dime! While watching my flat-screen Tv in the evenings (the rest of the room is dark),Stinkbugs fly ONTO the screen as it's the only source of light in the room. Then I take a tiny clear plastic bag that's palm sized,with a ziplock closure at the end of it and I open the bag up with my fingers and carefully place it OVER the stinkbug on the screen,and take a business card to slide underneath the bag (to remove their legs from the flatscreen) and once they fall into the bag,I simply use the ziplock to close it,then stick the bag into the freezer which kills them in less than an hour,then take it out of the freezer,open the bag and throw their corpses onto the lawn where the Birds eat em! :)
menom7 I've seen ants eat them also.
Definitely trying this. These bugs are all over here in NC. They’re annoying! I can deal with them but my wife freaks out. I usually spray them with a bottle of water mixed with dawn dish soap
Excellent. Stink bugs ruin our apples.
I don't think flushing them down the toilet is a very good idea, as an ex sewer inspector I can see how that could cause line plugging.
You gotta be sh*ttin' me...(toilet humor) How a handful of bugs will clog a sewer line? No idea on that one. (Been in the 'fixit' biz for over 40 years and never saw such a thing.)
I'm becoming obsessed in exterminating these things. I live rural & I've got them very bad. Can't tolerate them. Where have all the ladybugs gone? We now have these horrible critters in the Fall trying to get inside. Spring too! Yikes! Thanks, for taking the time to do this video. I appreciate you took the time to study these lil terrorists. I took an entomology class a few years ago & these critters were hardly mentioned. Yet, another invasive species on my turf. I'm making these traps tomorrow for these lil stinkers.
For the longest time I was wondering if anyone clever would come up with a good stink bug trap. This looks like the real McCoy. I'll try it. It sure beats going on Stink Bug patrol with my vacuum cleaner...
I have a 7 foot butterfly net, catch them, and feed them to chickens. They LOVE them! But I will try the trap- and the outside deterrents-, as I am weary of getting up every 10 minutes to catch them! And they get "through" a lot smaller than 3 pennies…
I clicked on this video because I want a pet.
Same
You are hilarious 😂 thank you, found one crawling on my pillow! Time to go to war!
After watching this video, I watched Andrew Strube's video, "How to Catch Stink Bugs" and made some suggestions. Stink bugs are attracted to other stink bugs because of their scent, and you are not supposed to crush them. I don't think that we want our water to stink, so I don't think that it is a good idea to flush them in the toilet. I've heard some people say that they vacuum them up, but if they get agitated they spray their scent and it is expelled from the vacuum all over your home and they are attracted all the more. The best bet it to find out where they are coming in, i.e. the fire place, soffits of roof and cover holes with a mesh that they cannot fit into to keep them out. Otherwise, they are going to scent up your house and come back every year.
I agree w/ all of your points!! I've found out that flushing them works and I've yet to smell their disgusting smell yet. But there's always a chance that could change.
I watched a video where a guy put a trap full of them in his freezer. I don't know...there was just something disturbing about the thought of putting them in there around my food and then them spraying before dying due to the stress of the cold air makes me sick. LOL.
It is that time of the year again where they fester in the attic and gain access through roof top nooks. crannies and chimneys. I usually capture them into a container...it is a fun game like being zapped in operation, you try not to be stinked by the bugs. I think capturing them and burying them in the yard is good...especially in areas where pests may be entering your property. I wouldn't suggest putting them in the toilet...don't want to be drinking stink water...we have enough problems with our drinking water as it is.
Thanks for the tip- somehow these stink f*+#€* found there way into my bedroom, only.. I've be catching, killing, and flushing about two a night. It makes sense it was always in pairs, I'd "get" one and within a few minutes there's a second. Its winter here, I think I'm allergic and I'm wondering do they go back outside when the weather changes?
Talk to someone who works at the water plant in your town. A few stink bugs is the least of the worries about what gets flushed.
Laura Pflug Laura, they aren't like ladybugs where the stink they make is the same as the attracting scent. When stinkbugs are clustered, they give off a 'come over here' scent to draw more to them so as to keep sheltered. It is a different smell than the stink smell they put out.
cover the top of the trap with a baggie, secure it with a rubber band then stick the whole trap full of the stinkers into my stand alone freezer, a few hours later they are done for and now I can flush them.
Neat. Only thing I question are the life of the batteries. How long will they last? Would be nice if the light could be turned off and on without taking the whole contraption apart.
dont stinkbugs fly???
timwitt94 yes
***** so why couldnt they escape such an elaborate device!!!??
timwitt94 idk
+timwitt94 Yes, they do fly, but even so it's very hard to escape that kind of trap. They don't have the intelligence to fly out the same way they came in, so they pretty much just crawl around the sides and feel of the walls until they die. I've seen these kinds of traps used on bumblebees, and I don't think I've ever seen one escape.
+timwitt94
They can not fly straight up and very controlled like a fly can...they are clumsy and not very fast / reactive. Anyway, what I did with my trap was I put dish soap and water in the bottom of the bottle, so when they fall through the funnel, they get into the dish soapy water and die in about 5 min or so. I put the light underneath the bottle so they still see it and still want to fly into the funnel. You can also put the light in a water proof bag and actually put it inside the bottle if you want. Another tip...if you don't want to use soapy water, you don't have to -- to kill them, put the entire trap in the freezer for a bit -- they will all be frozen in about 1-2 hours, then just open the bottle and flush down the toilet or put them in a compost outside.
Thanks, I will have to make me quite a few. I also thought about how to turn the light out during the day-just poke a stick down to punch the light, then turn it back on at night.