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Old April 10, 2019   #25
Ironwood
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Location: Upstate Ny Zone 5b
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We have many many stink bugs here. In the house, on the house, the jerks.

I do love to get them with the shop vac, but a solution I found that works pretty well is i collect them and put them in a mason jar. I keep the mason jar in the freezer. I take a handful to the bird feeder pretty often. Some birds, Wrens in particular, love them. I make sure to offer stink bugs year round to the birds.

I have not had any problems with stink bugs in the garden. The birds take care of them. They even clean the smelly little buggers off my siding. I just had to make it known to the birds the stink buffet was open and attract the right birds.

We have several house and Carolina Wrens nesting on the property now. Also have seen other birds that did not normally frequent before started offering stink bugs about 15 years ago. We even freeze them into suet.

It is also fun to have guests lose bets and have to sniff the jar!
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