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Welcome to another episode of Peskies Pest Control podcast here in Birmingham Alabama with Michael and Travis. We do this podcast as a community service for Birmingham, Hoover, Vestavia Hills, Mountain Brook, Helena, Alabaster, Pelham and all other surrounding areas!
Travis McGowin
So today we want to talk to you about a pest that’s going to start showing up at your house. Right here as we in Alabama hopefully, and I say a very big hopefully, transition from summer into fall. Fingers crossed because Alabama’s weather is insane at best most of the time. But over the last couple of nights, it’s felt really nice outside and in the mornings been nice and low humidity. So I’m praying that that’s a sign but anyway,
Michael Wienecke
it was 50 degrees this morning.
Travis McGowin
Exactly. It was nice. It felt like fall was coming. It may be just playing a trick on us, but hopefully not. But let’s talk about the brown marmorated stink bug. Like I said, inevitably, this time of the year, it’s gonna happen Michael, tell the listeners why the stink bugs start showing up. What it is they’re doing what it is they’re looking for, due to this time of the year.
Michael Wienecke
So the stink bug, and the Wasp prior to main calls for we got coming into winter, going into summer, that’s any flying loss, Yellow Jacket be whatever it may be. That’s our summertime, you know, getting everywhere. This stinkbug is right here around the wintertime. And they come into the attic, they come in through older Windows, they love to just hang out on your house, I was actually sitting in my office the other day and one just crawled right up the window and they just look like little aliens. Not to mention when you squish them or you know, hurt them, they let out quite a nasty little other.
Travis McGowin
Yeah, and the other aggravating thing about it is to is I have noticed when in my attempts to swat an individual one is usually if you smack them away and you don’t kill them or squish them, then they’re going to fly full circle and end up smacking you right in the face. It happens every time. I don’t know how they’re that precise. But they are but you hit the nail on the head. They are looking for a place to what we call overwinter. They’re looking for somewhere to ride out the hopefully coming Fuller, cooler weather that we should be having. So yeah, doors that have gaps old windows that have gaps, cracks, crevices around the houses, eaves and attic areas. Yeah, those are definitely some prime candidates for entry for for the stinkbugs. And I mean, they don’t really cause a lot of damage per se other than the fact I mean, if you smashed one into like a really nice carpet or rug, you might have a stain or something like that, or they’re, you know, I suppose someone could be allergic to them. But they’re more of just a nuisance.
Michael Wienecke
Well, they get in your house and they die on the floor and you’ve got you know, 1520 dead behind your windowsill that you never, you never saw until you know, you just see the shell and no legs. There’s no legs left of the stinkbug. And I’m speaking from experience because I used to have older Windows. Thankfully, we got new windows a couple of years ago. And they were getting in through the cracks. I mean, the windows were not sealed. You could you could kind of feel a breeze coming through and No, no windows truly sealed. No house is truly sealed. We see him a lot of times getting through the attic vent the gable vent. So sealing sealing up the house as best you can is going to help over the winter.
Travis McGowin
Yeah, and an early jump on prevention, not just stealing. If you have a pest control provider that you that you use, you know whether that be us or someone else is some pre emptive work before they show up is always better, you know cracking crevice treatments in some likely places where they would make entry and that sort of thing. An ounce of prevention goes a really really long way into ensuring that this problem doesn’t balloon into something that becomes an you know an extreme nuisance to you and your family.
Michael Wienecke
That’s correct because once we get the call of 1000 Stink bugs in your house. It can take a little bit of time to get rid of it
