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hammermachine

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HELP! Just over a month ago I bought a Ram 1550 in Maryland. Since then I have captured 24 Stinkbugs inside the cab. I have no real dealing with them locally, (they are slowly invading Northern NJ). I have found dead ones, and captured live ones. I believe they are coming from the doors, I've caught the most in the window sills. I've noticed whenever my truck has been sitting the the sun for a long time I will find some "cooked" on the window sill. I sprayed a pesticide down the front doors yesterday morning, but later found one in the crew cab seat. Anybody have any experience with this pest?

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Have you tried rolling up the windows and setting off a bug bomb? It should do the job in a few hours and then you just have to let it air out for a day or so. I had to do this once when i had my dog in the car and found a flea in it after. I figured where there was one, there should be more.
 
I had an ant problem in my Blazer from it sitting while I was deployed. I completely stripped the interior and set off about 5 bug bombs inside. Left it for about a week, then let it air out for a couple days, after it aired out I reinstalled the interior and was ant free.
 
Those damn bugs are a complete pain in the a** !!!!! They just showed up here in MD about 3 years ago and have spread like a plague :eek1: Sadly I really don't have any good advice for you other then try to keep capturing and killing the live ones and don't squish any ,even dead ones, as they do truly stink !!
 
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Welcome to the board, Kira. Try using pyrethrin or eugenol oil Pyrethrin is the natural oil that comes from crushed chrysanthemum flowers. Eugenol oil comes from trees and is the trees' natural defense against insects. Both of these products are safe around people and pets, and won't hurt the environment. You can buy them at ecosmart.com Hope that helps.
 
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That's GREAT! Thanks for the info guys, this seems like this is going to be a long term problem for me and everyone on the east coast.
 
We have had them bad for at least 3 years, I bought every spray, every trap I saw in the box stores. Not one of them worked. I bought TALSTAR PRO off of Amazon. This stuff will kill them and keep killing them. I sprayed it about a month ago went upstairs in my barn yesterday and not kidding swept of at least 2000 carcasses, should of taken a picture. It isn't cheap around $90 I believe but its a concentrate makes like a 100 gallons.
 
Update

I have found one thing that absolutely kills these critters.... HEAT! Today was probably the hottest day locally since I got the Ram. I left her while I went to work sitting in a completely cover-less parking lot. I came back late in the day to find SIX dead crispy vermin laying inside the window gutters. They probably got hot and crawled up into the cab and died from heat stroke. Mind you I sprayed the inside of the same gutter, and it probably had no effect. I don't know if this info will help any home owner with a bug problem, but I think I might be bug free by summer.
 
Heat works on wasps and bees too..be thankful you dont have those in your truck instead of stink bugs,at least they wont sting you while your going 65 down the highway!...

I had a lot of wasps in my van thats not on the road the past few years,they built nests in the door jambs and under it,in the engine bay,etc...one day I got stung multiple times when I took the air cleaner lid off so I could spray some starting fluid in the carb,the dam wasps had the whole thing clogged with paper and there was probably 200 of them lying in wait to get me...I used the ether to douse most of them,then took out my bic lighter and napalmed them,but several got away fast enough to sting the crap out of my arm....I sprayed all the nests I found with wasp killer,but the dam things return and built next to the other nest the following year...

I found by spraying the nests,any that escaped go into the van and try escaping by buzzing against the windows...and once the sun beats on the van long enough and it gets up to 120 degrees in there,they dry up and get crispy and die--I found about 100 lying on the dash one hot day...

Worst things to eradicate are those bugs that like flour,some kind of black beetles...as a joke a guy I know dumped some flour in a co-workers defroster vents,hoping it'd blow all over him when he turned the blower on...it did,but some of the flour stayed trapped in the ducts or heater box,now the truck is infested with a million of those beetles,and you cant even sit in it when spring comes!...he's tried "boming" it several times,but those things just seem immune to insecticide...
 
I vaguely remember something about bug spray on a cotton ball.
Just drop it in the door, or something.

Those stupid bugs are everywhere, around here...
 
Wow

I am so waiting for a string of 80+ sunny days. Today I caught #31 walking across my dash. I AM SO TIRED OF THESE BUGS. But its been rainy, cool and overcast. I really don't want to use chemicals inside my truck, so the sun is my last hope. Come on sun and heat.
 
They've invaded my house (Sussex County) the past 4 years or so. We use brake cleaner in a gatorade bottle. Kills them instantly. I wouldn't spray that in your truck though.
 
I'd swing by a pest control place. My friend does pest control and he has some different mixes of stuff he sprays inside from time to time with a little pressure pot. I bet you could pay them a one time fee and have them spray your truck.
 
Why not use natural enemies of the bugs instead of poisonous chemicals?....maybe a bunch of spiders,a few lizards, or frogs might eat them all!..a exterminator might be able to hook you up with that non poisonous tree extract stuff..
 
Stink bugs have no natural predators here in the U.S. Your cat may kill a few until it decides the smell isn't worth the fun. I just bug bombed my 'burban and the 'shed' it's in yesterday but not for stink bugs...I crawled underneath to put my trans back together and got the bum rush by bees and about a million spiders ...too bad...they couldn't just coexist
 
Supposedly when you smash the stink bug, the smell is a warning to other stink bugs to stay away. Therefore, you may try catching a few, and then smash them on a plate or tupperware dish, and leave that in your truck for a few days and see what happens.
 
Hey, I just had a great idea - run a hose from your exhaust pipe into the cab and run your engine for an hour. Carbon monoxide will kill everything, and the fact that it is being pumped in means it will get everywhere.

Problem solved I bet! :D
 
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