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What pet will eat the annoying stinkbugs?
10-07-2013, 04:38 PM
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Sad What pet will eat the annoying stinkbugs?
Is anyone else having a problem with these lately? The past two years around here in NE Ohio we've been getting inundated with them.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/307816-s...s/?photo=2

They look like mini cockroaches, fly around and bang into everything, and come into your house non-stop, no matter how much you try and keep your windows and doors closed. Honestly, I don't know how they manage to sneak in, but they do. Some days I will kill about 10-15 of them in our place.

Anyone else having trouble with these? They are definitely not something I would recommend keeping as pets, lol. I would almost like to find a house pet that would eat these and get rid of them for me.
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10-08-2013, 11:38 AM
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RE: What pet will eat the annoying stinkbugs?
Stink bugs are a terrible nuisance, and nothing much smells worse than a stink bug does.
As far as I know, other animals do not eat stink bugs . I have seen dogs playing around with them, but if they once bite into one , or even just get their nose on it, and get a whiff of that obnoxious odor, they pretty much leave them alone.
Fortunately, they seem to be a problem mainly in the fall, and then disappear once the cold weather sets in, and that seems to be arriving early this year.

As awful as it sounds, my husband actually swallowed one of the stink bugs one time ! He had prepared himself a nice tuna fish sandwich, and somehow a stink bug crawled onto it when he wasn't looking, and when he took a bite of his sandwich, he was bent over double hollering and gagging all at the same time.
When he finally was able to speak again, he said he had accidentally eaten a stink bug .
So, apparently, the stink bug does not taste any better than it smells.
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04-03-2014, 03:06 PM
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RE: What pet will eat the annoying stinkbugs?
I would imagine the stinkbug did taste quite horrible. I believe they are mildly toxic, not dangerous to us or house pets, but correct me if I'm wrong, they are suppose to taste foul. At least I think so or maybe I'm thinking of another -true bug-, I'm not a master entomologist but I use to collect and pin them so I'm a little familiar with them.
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