my dog likes to play with bugs. if he says a beetle he will pick it up in his mouth, carry it a few feet, spit it out and watch it run away. but these frickers, and the ones that look like them but are a bit bigger, he gets mad at them. he will make a frustrated bark while snapping his jaws a few inches from them and then swipe at them with his paw. must be the smell that pisses him off.
first of all ladybugs aren't from China...
2nd, stinkbugs cause significant economic damage to crops, while ladybugs are beneficial since they eat pest insects (aphids)
I spotted on in budapest in my apartment once and i broke down crying and called my dealer to save me (who was my only friend at that point even tho he took advantage of me once), i got drunk and tossed it out the window. I'm still proud of myself for handling it alone
They were everywhere last summer and fall. I trapped one in a jar and gave it a cherry tomato and a grape but it didn't do anything with them. Ended up gently tossing it outside.
Shield bug/stinkbug
They're all over in my area and I often have to evict them from my apartment.
I only really mind them when they suddenly come flying at my face.
i have no idea. i see them in my apartment building, and in my apartment sometimes. its an invasive species. usually i only see them once. ive seen them on people's doors, and then they crawl or fly into their place. like i said, they disappear. probably food for a wolf spider, or something. as to what the stinkbugs eat, i never saw them eat anything, not even when i see them in nature. maybe they are like aphids and they eat the sap of plants. i never had them infest any part of my home, like Ladybugs sometimes do. Those really can stink, but these "stinkbugs" I don't notice so much.
They eat the tomato pulp same with bell peppers, aubergines, any pulpy fruit or vegetable. They're a fricking pest, the brown ones came from China along shipping routes. They're resistant to most pesticides, you have to use pyrethrum for them (extract of a poisonous flower) but that shit makes the veggies toxic for weeks after you use it. So basically you have to let anything mature rot for a month to be safer
They are true bugs (Hemipterans) with sucking mouthparts. They suck the phloem from plants, generally, so unless you looked under them closely to check the status of their mouthparts, they were probably slurping up the sap of your tomato.
Probably not a huge threat to your plant unless in huge number, or if they are carrying a disease.
TSD
my dog likes to play with bugs. if he says a beetle he will pick it up in his mouth, carry it a few feet, spit it out and watch it run away. but these frickers, and the ones that look like them but are a bit bigger, he gets mad at them. he will make a frustrated bark while snapping his jaws a few inches from them and then swipe at them with his paw. must be the smell that pisses him off.
Stinkbugs > ladybugs as far as invasive chink bugs go. Prove me wrong.
first of all ladybugs aren't from China...
2nd, stinkbugs cause significant economic damage to crops, while ladybugs are beneficial since they eat pest insects (aphids)
There's an invasive "false ladybug" from China which is just as harmful as stinkbugs
I thought false lady's came from Thailand
I spotted on in budapest in my apartment once and i broke down crying and called my dealer to save me (who was my only friend at that point even tho he took advantage of me once), i got drunk and tossed it out the window. I'm still proud of myself for handling it alone
They were everywhere last summer and fall. I trapped one in a jar and gave it a cherry tomato and a grape but it didn't do anything with them. Ended up gently tossing it outside.
>dig a 5cm deep hole in the ground
>throw this fricker in there
>bury it with a small handful of dirt
there, fixed your problem OP
*crawls out*
*crawls inside out*
That is actually pretty clever wordplay
*gets thrown in fireplace*
enjoy the smell I guess
As long as the door is closed nothing comes into the room
I HATE THEM I HATE THEM I HATE THEM
Stink buks
You wouldn't hurt an innocent little nymph tho, right anon? 🙂
>invasive species
>primarily from china
>no natural predators
thanks, i hate it.
>*invades your h-ACK
frick these mfs, how do we fight back?
what is it?
A brown recluse
Shield bug/stinkbug
They're all over in my area and I often have to evict them from my apartment.
I only really mind them when they suddenly come flying at my face.
What do these even eat? I found three sitting on a tomato but they didn't seem to be eating it.
i have no idea. i see them in my apartment building, and in my apartment sometimes. its an invasive species. usually i only see them once. ive seen them on people's doors, and then they crawl or fly into their place. like i said, they disappear. probably food for a wolf spider, or something. as to what the stinkbugs eat, i never saw them eat anything, not even when i see them in nature. maybe they are like aphids and they eat the sap of plants. i never had them infest any part of my home, like Ladybugs sometimes do. Those really can stink, but these "stinkbugs" I don't notice so much.
They eat the tomato pulp same with bell peppers, aubergines, any pulpy fruit or vegetable. They're a fricking pest, the brown ones came from China along shipping routes. They're resistant to most pesticides, you have to use pyrethrum for them (extract of a poisonous flower) but that shit makes the veggies toxic for weeks after you use it. So basically you have to let anything mature rot for a month to be safer
They are true bugs (Hemipterans) with sucking mouthparts. They suck the phloem from plants, generally, so unless you looked under them closely to check the status of their mouthparts, they were probably slurping up the sap of your tomato.
Probably not a huge threat to your plant unless in huge number, or if they are carrying a disease.
These things are quite impressive since they’ve even made it all the way to my island in the middle of nowhere.
Which island is that? NZgay here, so far so good.
The Cayman Islands. Hello fellow brit colony :^)
Kind of surprised with how close you are to Australia. Guess maybe they don’t live there either
>mfw free grub