Stick bugs???How to kill em?

Any ideas on what to use for these nasty creatures?
I seem to be running a stink bug hotel! UGH!
How can I kill them ?

Thanks MsCritterkeeper

If they are anything like the black ones we have here, it takes a sledge hammer to crack their hides. Good luck.

Safer's Soap, mixed strong, and add a bit of rubbing alcohol. That'll get em!

Thanks frogsrus & Horseshoe.
Yep, they are the black ones and nope I don't think I want to smack em...too many of them for that tatic and the smell might choke me.LOL

frogsrus - What's safer soap & where do I get it ? Is it "safe" for all my plants? What about my fish in my pond, do I need to move all the plants out side to spray em?
I see a screened in porch in my future..lol
Thanks,
Lottie

Maybe Shoe will return. I have never used safer's soap. I use another insecticidal soap. Most are available at home Depot or other nurseries. I wouldn't spray in the house but I have a husband with asthma.

Safer's Soap can be picked up at nearly any garden center or, as frogs said, Hope Depot/Lowes type stores.

It kills by smothering some insects and also by dissolving the membrances/tissues of other bugs/insects. It is safe to use for most plants but if in doubt spray one leaf and see if there is a negative reaction.

By mixing in alcohol it will more easily affect the hard-body critters, like stink bugs. You could even try using alocohol and water and some dish wash soap...you'll mainly be having to contact the bugs more so that the plants themselves.

In my garden, I use a water hose and spray my plants real good with just water. This makes the stink bugs crawl out of hiding and go to the tops of the plants to bask in the sun to dry out. While they are there that is when you want to hit them with your soap/alcolhol solution. SURPRISE!!! ;>)

I like the dissolving membrane thing. (My sympathy for things eating my plants is low. They have a creek to go live by just down the bank.) Does it work on grasshoppers? I was invaded by the nasty brown ones last year and they about took out my lavatera.

It would be hard to be able to hit a grasshopper with the stuff. I used to really be plagued by them critters but now have guineas that have done a number on them! Wish you could get some of those!

There is a grasshopper pathogen you can buy, called "somethingsomething locustaie" or sumpin like that. Would have to look it back up again. Mayby I saw it in Gardens Alive catalog years back. If so, I'm sure it is still available.

I wish I could have chickens too, Shoe. I think if you grow up "pickin" eggs every morning, you never quite get it out of your system. :-)

True! And them eggs are so delish! However, ya'll got stink bug probs and right now I have mice/rat probs! I've been trying to pick em off w/a .22 at various hrs of the nite but they breed like rabbits!

Wish I could zap em with some soap/alcohol spray!

I currently have aphids and their ilk moving in on me. I was going to plant this weekend but I think I will give everything a good spray and wait a week. Lol Shoe. Here we have squirrels in the ground and rats in the trees! Happy hunting.

Thanks for the info on how to get em!
I'll try it. I can't stand them flying at me from outta no where!Yuck. I love to garden but I still can't get used to these nasty creatures.

Hey Horseshoes, I have a few problems with large rats too because of all the birds I keep...our cat takes care of most of the mice but some of the rats are huge! We stick poison under the aviary where the other animals can't get to it.
It helps to keep them in check..you'd think with all the advanced technology someone would at least invent birth control for rats! LOL

Thank again to both I 'll give it a try.

Lottie

Horse are you crazy-shooting things in the middle of the night.
What in the heck do your neighbors think?

Hehehe...Honibee, my neighbors are not really nearby. (I imagine they are trained tho...when they hear a shot they duck.) (Great fun to watch their silhouettes bobbing up and down as they walk past their windows!) ;>)

You are sooo bad shoe... ;)

Lilypon, I've actually tamed down quite abit. I no longer beat 55 gal barrels to bring in the rain (I's blamed on bringin on the great flood of '87), I no longer howl at the moon (unless it's in a month that has an A, an E, or a U in its name), and I quit sending my neighbors cows home with peacock feathers protruding out their uhh...well, never mind that part.

Anyway....I'm docile. And well-behaved. :>)

Somewhat...the pictures you put in my mind...shakes head and has to chuckle! :D