| Stink Bugs have arrived! Within the last decade they | | | | Stink bugs will sun-bathe on the south side of your |
| have been imported to Allentown, and now they are in | | | | home if you live in south-east PA, and then press in |
| Lancaster and York, PA--and no signs of them | | | | around areas such as windows, doors, utility service |
| stopping. Named for the terrible odor they give when | | | | lines, dryer vents, outside faucets, etc. Confused by |
| crushed, stink bugs are here to stay. They seem to | | | | the extreme difference in temperature between the |
| find their way into homes with little effort, and have | | | | inside and outside of your wall, stink bugs will press in |
| now become a pest we need to control. | | | | to where they think summer is-the inside of your |
| The easiest way to control stink bugs is to | | | | home! |
| powerspray the perimeter of a home or structure, and | | | | Now we mention Lancaster and York PA here, but |
| focus on areas where they can penetrate into the | | | | there are reports that Stink bugs have moved down |
| interior walls. It is not uncommon for a stink bug to | | | | into Maryland as of 2007. Our prediction is, due the |
| hitch-hike on a body into the house, but if you are | | | | epidemic here in Pennsylvania, it is going to be a |
| seeing them in the winter, that is not when they got in. | | | | long-standing pest for a while, no matter where you |
| Sadly, they are already in your walls, you just don't | | | | live in the northeast. Look for these bugs to become a |
| know it. | | | | pest on the top-ten home invaders in the next decade. |