ANNIE KARNI – NY Post
Even Lady Liberty would turn her nose up at these foreign visitors.
Pentatomoidae — insects called stinkbugs because they emit an odor like rotten cheese — have landed in Brooklyn, and they’re spreading.
The fingernail-sized flying beetles are native to China, Korea and Japan, but made landfall in the US in 1998 in Allentown, Pa., according to Rutgers University entomologist George Hamilton.
“They’re good hitchhikers,” said Hamilton of the insects, which can lay up to 30 eggs at a time. “They get into clothes and suitcases and spread.”
And while they don’t pose a health risk, they’ve been turning stomachs in Park Slope this winter.
Residents there are finding that when squashed or even vacuumed, the brown, long-antennaed bugs stink to high heaven.
Deborah Orr, 42, a grant editor, said she first spotted the pests last winter but didn’t know what they were. This year, the pesky problem grew and her kids now keep a tally of how many “stinkies” they catch.
“We’re on stinky number 15,” Orr lamented.
Robert Macri, a pest-control specialist, advises: “If you smash them, the odor comes out. The best is to pick them up and flush them. The problem is they’re hard to catch because they fly.”
yes theyre all over be careful before you eat something u cant eat bugs acc to halacha and they smell awful im clean of them thank gd because i acted quick plesae dont let them infest your house be gezunt
are they in here our Kahn tziva Hash.m es abracho…
can’t believe it???? very very smelly
i could catch anything just nut a cold!
…in Pittsburgh.
Philadelphia has tons of them!!! They are gross. And one time I was packing to go home and when i opened my suitcase at home I found a stink bug inside!! Eww.. but thats how they spread. I immediatly killed it dont worry.
Try Magical Pest Control in Toronto, Canada. They know everything.
we’ve got lots of them here!