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Stink bugs have been trying to invade my tropical hibiscus that I have outside. I'm spraying them with soapy water 3 times a day now. Can't find anything that will repel/deter them from arriving. They're icky little buggers & they're in the new growth on the hibiscus. Now & then there's a bigger one, too. EWWWWWW

The only one I have seen this summer was de ad in a spiderweb.

oh my, bless your heart.........they smell so bad, guess that's why they're called stink bugs

I was picking tomatoes and squished one that was on the tomato.....euuuuuuuuuu.

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mgt, from what I've read/heard...nothing works on them & they have no natural enemies. Don't blame any other critters for not wanting to eat them.

Get you some rubber/latex gloves & start hand picking...put in a zip bag & stomp on it.
Be sure you don't bring any in on your plant this fall...they will over-winter inside your house.

Oh no!

Just looked up info on them. Hope they leave your plants soon.

There are numerous Stink Bugs around, most all of which do have natural predators that we often kill off by spraying with broad sprectrum poisons to kil the Stink Bugs.
If your garden has them you can knock them off plants into a bucket of soapy water early in the day, spray them with an Insecticidal Soap, or spray them with Neem Oil products, keeping in mind that both of those are broad spectrum poisons that can harm beneficials and predators as well.
Spraying plants these wee buggers are harrassing with a kaolin clay product also seems to help since that disguises the plants leaves and they do not seem able to find them.
Companion planting may be of some help also.
https://attra.ncat.org/attra-p...s/summary.php?pub=72

I'll never forget when one of my puppies was curious and tasted a small green stinkbug, and then trying to shake it off....what a sight it was!
Needless to say he's never done it again.

I stand corrected Kimm! Evidently, some of the materials I have read weren't up-to-date. Here is this...

http://southeastfarmpress.com/...ed-stink-bug-control

And this....

http://www.bugspray.com/article/stinkbug.html

Or maybe you can find a plan of action on one of these sites....

http://www.northeastipm.org/wo...up/bmsb-information/

They're just bothering the one plant...I'm out there 3 times a day now spraying them with the soapy water. Only a couple this morning. Had I known the hibiscus was going to attract the stink bugs, I would've sprayed with Neem earlier in the year & planted marigolds in the same pot.

Yeah, I don't know if I want to bring that plant in for the winter. I sure don't want those danged things in the house. My brother never had this problem. He's had this hibiscus in & out of his house for years. I may just have to let winter kill it. Very sad.