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- Turns out stink bugs and cilantro have some things in common.
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• Stink Bug on Pecan
They invaded our home a couple years ago, and our family waged war on them. At first the battles were easy. Paper towels were our primary source of attack. Primitive, yet effective. But then the bugs multiplied. They were smart. Hiding in our vents, underneath our beds, deep in the trench-like curtains, we soon became overwhelmed. One soldier reported that the bugs began to 'dig into his skin', and spec ops are reporting signs of sentience. We thought of calling in an ordinance for chemical warfare, but General Pooch denied our request. The war goes on. Any assistance to beat this horrid monstrosity will lead us one step closer to saving the olfactories. Time is running out. Send hel
ShatDad R.I.P
By god
Same 😡😡
We lost ‘im.
Well get em next time
my cat was playing with one of these bugs once, it sniffed the bug and started gagging immediately.
Lol.. happened to my cat the other day, she gagged and sneezed! Then she sent it flying across the hardwood floor, and I took care of it after that. Lol..
In Sewden they're called bärfis which literally translates to berry-fart
Amanda Nilsson no joke? That is funny
I thought it was barf-bug
My pet stink bug is named Stink Bug Berry!
At least berries smell good
Cilantro Skunk sounds like a cannabis strain.
I can't be the only one who finds squishing anything larger than an ant intolerably disgusting... Except mosquitoes perhaps
Chameleon Scheimong I agree not just these but these are by far the worst
Same. I have no idea how people squish cockroaches. Ugh.
yea
cruunch!!
have you ever squished a tick?
Why do my college work when I could be learning more important things like this
Anna Elise u got that right
You know, this explains why stinkbugs are so ridiculously chill all the time. At least it makes them simple to catch.
Explain with science why I turn the knob in my near freezing cold shower 1 Planck length to the left, and it becomes 211°F.
Brandon Cummings bad plumbing
That would explain it.
My "landlord" seems to take a liking to doing his own repairs... as evidenced by the fact that the cold and hot water are switched.
I have had experience with the “Eigen-shower”. No intermediate positions, just discrete jumps from one state to the next.
They already made a video about it.
An amazing thing about the stink bug is that its chemical stench permeates plastic immediately . I caught one using a small plastic bag as a glove and my hand stank . I tried 3 times at different times each time using a plastic bag and each time it permeated right through. Amazingly potent stuff .
A few years ago, I was staying in Knoxville, TN for the summer/fall. We had a HUGE stink bug infestation in our house, and literally they would be covering the walls and be in the beds. Not very fun having to sleep in a bed that might have bugs in them. I also can't smell them for some reason, but everyone else could.
One time I turned on a window fan and heard a bunch of really sickening crunches. I didn't know the whole thing was crawling with dozens of stink bugs. The smell was so bad, the room was basically uninhabitable for a month
lol yeah they took up house in my window AC too, a similar thing happened when I turned it on but not to that extent :P
I hate these bugs! No matter if doors or windows are closed, they come inside. Luckily I keep a bottle and scoop them in when I see them and then shake it violently. Luckily no smell. Then the next one comes by and it meets its family in the bottle.
I hate these things too. They all decided MY bedroom is the place to hide out as well. I've killed more than 20 this winter. Beetles (and any chitinous insect for that matter) are one of my "irrational" fears too, so it's even worse for me than it is for the rest of the household. Oddly enough I don't actually smell them so idk what up with that.
Haha, I too have a water bottle that's now little over half full of them after few years now... It's filled with gasoline and a 5/8 nut to rattle them around like a spray paint can as I shake the piss out of them! I hunt those fuckers off my land. Not so many this year.
@@alexlawson4173I hope they get on your face it night
Yep they can find every open crevice in your house
This past season I've found a few of them that got inside. My preferred method of killing them is a can of compressed air. Flip the can upside down and gently pull the trigger to give the bug a light mist of freezing liquid. Within seconds, the bug is frozen solid and there is no stink. Then I just pick it up with a napkin and flush it down the toilet.
Joshua how about a glass and putting
it outside - respect nature my cruel ignorant friend
shut up if you throw it out it will just come back
Toni Mahoni they are invasive and do serious damage. We're not talking about a bird that gets in your house here. Also canned air works great
Toni Mahoni they’re pests you moron
Starving kids in America could have ate that bug
whenever i see these bugs in my house, I scoop them up in a wad of tissue and flush them down the toilet. I never knew they were stink bugs.
I just scream till my mom comes and takes it outside with a broom
soapy water in a spray bottle kills them; it dehydrates their exoskeleton. Mint is also a decent repellant.
WD-40 and a lighter is better
@@ssub8492 I just killed one not knowing until they put out that smell, I caked the area in lynx
Why do stink bugs stink?
This question doesn't make any scents.
Master Therion how
Dad joke of the year
Justin
"Left Guard" deodorant? Is this a football reference? If Right Guard Deodorant is named for a football position, they should have named it "Offensive Guard" deodorant.
Master Therion boooooo
Master Therion 😂 Good one! 🤣
Whenever they stared invading my home, I kept a water bottle on my desk. Every time I saw one, I would scoop it into the bottle. I did this to about 20 or 30 bugs until there weren't anymore there. I hate these things.
Koshunae I did the exactly same thing but it was a Dr.pepper bottle.
and then toss it in the recycling to leave it as a surprise
Cilantro and a skunk. I think you honestly described the smell perfectly. We have them all over my house. They seem to just love my room.
Yesss they smell like cilantro
I've killed so many of them, and I never smelled anything.
Same
I never felt their smell either.
Exactly it’s a faint smell if you smell your fingers after squashing them with a tissue
They actually smell like plant leaves
Nooo I’m in my bed rn!!! Why’d you have to freak me out with that little animation of the bugs going in the bed!!?
My house has been invaded by these tiny turds, i keep having to catch and release these guys. My porch is becoming a graveyard full of little frozen stink bugs.
The place a lived at last winter got invaded by this a-holes. It got the point where I'd burn them to death with a candle lighter - to avoid crushing them. They drove me insane.
Like most bugs they are easily trapped with a bright light source too. I had to clean like 1-5 out of my lamp every freaking day. ugh....
pick em in an empty jar
Those are stink bugs? o.O
I've seen several green ones of those before, they would come into my home during summer. Didn't smell anything, but now I know why my cat wouldn't touch them! He sniffed them a couple of times, then made a face of repulsion and then just left them alone xD
Mini Manta yeah i live in ohio and they invade like crazy we call them June bugs
We call'em blueberry farts in some of the northern parts of Sweden because they always seem to tag along on the blueberries when you pick them😂😂
Yeah ive never felt a scent from stink bugs either.
Me too, never felt that scent.
Yeah until u touch em.. its a defense mechanism, u have to attack first
There's a green stink bug, common here in Brasil, that has two pointy horns in its back. The pesky thing sometimes sucks on our blood at night. I woke up feeling a sudden stingy pain in my forehead, and instinctively slapped it. My hand was perforated by the f***er's horns, My forehead was getting swollen, and the smell... Worst night ever.
I'm running away
Because if they didn't stink they'd just be called... bugs.
I use a vacuum cleaner on any bug I find in my house. Not even the flying ones can escape it.
Same! Altho.. sometimes its a long game of cat and mouse... They are really good at escaping (most flying bugs)
But what if they stay alive inside the vacuum cleaner? I have never done that because I'm afraid they might lay eggs...
If you bring in wood for the stove, you know these little bastards. I don't mind the smell (nor that of skunk or sewers. high tolorance I guess) but they are loud when they fly around. Loud as hornets. They didn't mention that they fly, or even show pictures of female stinkbugs. This video could have developed a bit more about them then the smell.
Denis Eaton wood for the stove? Sorry I'm probably too young to understand what you're talking about.
They like hiding under bark. I heat with a wood stove which requires bringing chopped wood into the house.
Lol duh
A few years ago, those bugs covered the front of the house. For a few weeks, I would spray them with soapy water right after I got home from school. My cat took care of any that got inside. Man, I hate those pests.
They just smell like cucumbers. We get so many here in NC.
Some people are scared of spiders and snakes but I've been scared of stink bugs my whole life. 🤮😱
I can't not squash them.. When I see one I immediately go terminator until the little hellspawn is dead, by pretty much any means necessary.
rinus454 im that way with house centipedes.
I love these little cuties, got a ton of them in MA. Totally harmless and they walk real goofy. Not fun when they fly right into your face though.
What I do to get rid of them out my house is use wax remover which is a type freeze spray. This spray works really well because it's cheap and easy to use and not to toxic. It just flash freezes the big before it can make stench.
I usually gently grab it with a tissue, ball it up in said tissue without crushing it, then douse the tissue is water and throw it away.
Am I the only person who doesn’t smell anything when a stink bug gets squished?
I don’t smell anything either
Idk how lol it's very potent and identifiable. The ones are in my state anyways lol
Whe your mom said ‘got your nose’ guess she wasn’t lieing cause how can you not smell that
Same here, I don't smell anything at all
Cause you're lord Voldemort
These bugs taste far worse than they smell.
Um...how do you know that?
Alyssa Grasso It was hiding on my apple.
Alpha Wolf I'll have to compare one day but I doubt worms are pungent.
🤢🤮
I've encountered dozens of these things in the last few years if not hundreds, and honestly they seem like the dumbest animals alive. They have no noticeable survival instinct. If my cats bat one around, bite at it and abuse it for half an hour it makes no effort to escape or defend itself. When I pick one up with my bare hands and throw it outside it makes no effort to escape my grasp. The few times I've seen them fly they either flip onto their backs or fly straight into a wall, then land on their backs. When I found nearly 30 of them hiding in the coats hanging by my front door I took each one and flicked it off of the jacket, one by one, outside. Not a single one made a stink about it.
To this day I cannot describe the smell of a stink bug, as I have never encountered it.
Does anyone else get it where you cant read the rest of the comment? I'm at "When I". Or is it a trend that I haven't caught on to make a long comment then cut it off mid sentence? Either way I agree.
I just wanted to say - they’re the moon moon of bugs
I highly doubt they didn't make a stink, it just that you probably can't smell aldehydes at all.
I literally cannot conceive that you could have carried a stink bug around in your hand or had your cat harass one without it ever making a stink. The ones around here seem convinced they're about to die the moment I walk into the same room as them. I don't even have to interact with them; sometimes they just make my stuff stink for no reason at all. I've had the little devils fly around refusing to watch where they're going, smack into me while I'm just minding my own business, and start stinking because *_they_* touched *_me._*
My cats have learned not to bother them, either, even my boy who goes nuts over pretty much anything that moves, lol.
I wouldn't describe the smell as anywhere near skunk-level bad, though, or really skunkish at all. Skunk stink makes me physically nauseous, while stink bug stink is pungent but not intolerable. I just grumble and wait for it to fade away. Maybe you're lucky and literally can't smell it or you're expecting it to be much worse than it actually is. My mom carries ladybugs outside in her bare hands and to this day doesn't believe me that they also release a (much milder) stink. Even though I've smelled her hand afterwards trying to prove my point and sure enough, it reeked. I really can't tell if she genuinely can't smell it or she's just messing with me. 😂
recently i watched as one of them proceeded to fly into my room, ram repeatedly into the wall, making it lose it's ability to fly, then just climb up my desk at a 90 degree angle, fall, then i watched it try to climb onto something that was on the floor for 15 MINUTES STRAIGHT, falling down every time, but continuously trying. eventually it stopped trying, and i put it in a glass and threw it out onto the dirt, saw it move around, and left it on its journey to try and climb something else before hopefully dying to the conditions outdoors. it wasn't that i was scared to pick it up, i was just curious how long it would take for it to kill itself, but it just wasn't dying. to be honest, i was rooting for the poor bastard to climb up the notebook that was on the ground, but he never could.
Thank you this was helpful because my cat just got sprayed by one and he got a cilantro smell and webs on his face and he started gagging and I had no idea what it was
How do stink bugs get in my room? Is there really a hole THAT big to allow them to come in or can they somehow squeeze through small holes?
omg same likw tf
U it parliament
Vacuuming seems to work too
SLS i use bleach
In Mexico there's a species of stinkbugs one eats by the named Atizies taxcoensis. (Jumiles)
I live in Michigan and my friend once killed about 15 stink bugs in his up stairs bedroom. And they didn't stink. He since then in Nov has been killing off most of those pest. And it's clear their stink bugs. But why aren't they stinking??
Not everyone can smell it. I can’t. But my girlfriend can. So every time I squash one in the house she’ll know even if she didn’t see me do it.
THIRE stinks is mostly dictated by diet so ya? There's a thought?!
Did he crush them? They don't stink if they're not crushed.
I live in Michigan and they are aggravating.com during fall. Spring time you start finding them dead or chilling by the windows.
Dude when i was in 9th grade we had these fuckers coming in to the classroom all the time and one time someone made the mistake of killing it... Let's just say we couldn't really go on with the lesson after that
Best way to get rid of them is to grab it and bundle into toilet paper then flush them down the toilet. No fuss, no smell.
I ate one with a blackberry once. Well, I did not really eat it I just bit into it and that ruined my day picking blackberries.
Galloe Of the sea and this is why I have a utter distaste for watermelons to this day!
Uaaaagh just thinking about it.....
Same here, happened to me as a child. 20 years later, I got in contact with Cilantro and hated that. Now, I learned that it all makes sense.
🤢🤢🤢🤢
@@levelintent Yeah, the stink bug never had a chance... And we didn't even have beef. I just ate his home without so much as a care and killed him in the process.
His revenge was an unpleasant taste that haunted me long after the flavor had run its course. He will be missed.
Never forget.
I honestly can't even smell them.
Same, didnt know those were stink bugs too :T
yknow they typically only release the smell when you crush them or like move them around or something
I've done both. Nothing registers to my olfactory sensors. At this point I see them and I'm like "Hey buddy. C'mere. You can crawl on me. Lemme take you outside."
are stink bugs like asparagus pee and some of us are just lucky and can't smell them? i've squished plenty of these things and never smelled anything...
I think you’re right. If my cats play with one, ugh, I nearly toss cookies. It’s an unforgettable smell if you do smell it.
My cat refuses to even touch it. I cant stand touching them so I called my cat over to eat it and she just sniffed it then ran away.
Same over here, I can smell it but it isn't even bad. It's like a fruity tang or something.
Yeah, I squished a lot of them in my house, I never smellt anything. And I hate cilantro!
Maybe I should ask some guests over for their opinion...
Strange, I've seen people smash a ton of them and they've never made a bad odor. I've also been told that shield bugs aren't actually stink bugs before.
I've never smashed one. They get in the house pretty often in warmer weather. I just relocate them to backyard.
Every year a few fly in the window, usually easy to remove and usually no big deal... unless you want to take a sip from your glass and find one drowned in it >.>
I used to have a bug that looked like this in my home but i remember squishing them but no smell. Does anyone know what they could have been?
The stink isn't super strong but it's distinctive.
Several years ago, I tried to start a shield bug habitat in a cardboard box. Let's just say I shouldn't have.
I fell like this was long overdue.
Spray them with soap water. No joke. The suds from the soap coat them and they suffocate without releasing their stink.
I've squished many but i have never smelled anything coming from the bugs. Strange...
Volcanic Dragon not so strange, never smell anything when i killed them also
I once told my mom to not squish stinkbugs bc they would attract other ones. She didn't believe me and squished at least a dozen of them outside our house. They covered our front door and wall for weeks. She never squished them after that.
The green ones smell like apples, every time I see one I give it a big snifffff😂
😐
I hate these bugs, they're all over my front yard and they reproduce like crazy
nature... take the smell in... be one with the stink bug
They are harmless, does the smell kill you?
Lime Lives Matter Not me, they kill my little grapevines :
Oh....I'm sorry for your loss
I actually have never smelled the stench that they are supposed to give
OH THEY'RE CALLED STINK BUGS??? THOSE THINGS KEEP FLYING AND WACK INTO MY WINDOW. THOSE SHIELD WACKING THE WINDOW IS SCARY. SOUNDS LIKE A DAMN ROCK HITTING MY WINDOW.
It's worse when they whack into your face while you're trying to watch a YT video about them.
I don't know why but I was expecting to smell the bug from this video
Stink bugs were kind of bad this past year in south Chicago suburbs at least in my opinion they were in the house all the time but, they moved slowly and would find a spot and die like on the ceiling or something, weird.
Night Shade luckily they not over here on the west side of Chicago lol
These little critters are all over my house. They dont bother me, I dont bother them.
Brendan Smith I killed all of mine, I like lighting them on fire. My house stank for a few hours, but i'm glad the fuckers are gone.
I am still waiting for the video when they answer questions like “why do stink bugs smell” by saying “because they are stink bugs” and drop a mic.
Intresting fact about Stink bug:
Stink bug are usually multiply in winter season. They are usually found inside the stone in river bank in most part of Arunachal Pradesh, India. There are 2 varity. One found in jungle, mostly green colour and those found in river bed is brown, just like in the video. The river stink bug is usually consumed and very addictive. It leave tingling sensation in the mouth. But one in thousands or million, these bug carry poison or sort of, which when poisoned a person, it make the person to hallucinate and behave like stink bug. The infection may last anywhere between 7 days to 180 days. The intresting things is the infected person exhibit the bugs chracter. I happen to witness a person doing all sort bug things in front of my eyes. the rate of infection is very low, say about 1 or 2 person in a town of 10-20 tari (stink bug) consumer. The tari(stink bug) season starts from November to March.These bugs are popularly know as Tari(indigenous) and are sold in open market.
I have a cat, and she never lets insects have a free pass. I even saw her eat a moth and a fly before. So... if I ever do have a stink bug, at the very least, she'll probably scare it pretty badly.
no wonder I don't think they smell so bad, just musky. Cilantro is delicious!
JustPeople agree to disagree
Cilantro can and will ruin any meal it is put into for me, so bad..
Around my house they are called cat toys.
stink bugs are all over the place here in Pa.
i catch them in my bare hands ALL the time and throw them outside.
in more than 20 years i have yet to ever smell anything from them. not once...ever.
I've squished many a stinkbug that made its way into my house, but I've never smelled their stink... Is my nose broken or are they imposter stinkbugs?
Andrew Taylor-Bloch I can't smell them either.
"Imposter stinkbugs" haha
I was born without a scent of smell. As consequence, these bugs have set up in my room during the quarantine. At least now I have someone to hang out with while stuck in my home.
Am I the only one who has killed dozens of them and never smelled anything?
I live in harmony with my shield bugs!
These things don't smell at all to unless I crush one and put it directly in front of my face
Exactly it smells like plant leaves up close.
When I was a kid I went blackberry picking and I ate a few. I didn't see there was a stink bug when I popped it into my mouth. It burned my mouth and I thought it bit me. I showed it to my mom because I had never seen a stink bug before. Check your berries people.
They should be called blocky head shovel back
I ABSOLUTELY DETEST THOSE BUGS.... In the summer they fly in through the tiniest crack in the flynet and make a think buzz like a large bee, and slam themselves into the lightbulb. I spray them with deodorant ( funny but true ) and once they faint, I grab a bunch tissues and grab it , and throw them out the window.
My mother thinks I'm an absolute freak for not being able to smell stink bugs at all.
Deku Kitty I can’t smell them either.
They get in my house. I see a couple a day. I just gently pick them up and toss them outside. They are completely harmless and I've even let it crawl around on my hand while my son looked at it.
Do the stanky leg.
🤣🤣🤣
One time I ate a handful of cheese its out of a box that a stinkbug had crawled in. It took me a few seconds to figure it out, but it was one of the worst tastes I have ever experienced.
my dog tried to eat one, he didn't get very far in that endeavor
Oh. That's what they were.
I had one in my hotel room in Milan -- it was on my bed. Being winter, that explains why it was indoors.
I was lucky -- I flicked it off and it seemed to kill it (as I found it the next morning) but it didn't release any odor.
I pick up those bugs all the time and I've never smelled anything before? I never squash them though.. Is it only when they are squashed?
“Attacked or squashed”
apparently
They have always stunk if i just touched them.
There have been countless times that I've squashed stink bugs and gotten no smell. Am I just really lucky or can I not smell those chemicals?
Brenden Carr I can't smell it either as well.
Ditto, and I approach the world nose-first. Plus I think cilantro is one of the most vile things on the planet. I squash these things every week or two during the winter, just had to extract one from a succulent the other day, and I've never had an issue with the smell. Squash, flush, done.
These things are everywhere and I've always called them stinkbugs even though I was convinced they weren't.
In swedishspeaking Finland we call them "berry farts"
1:43 okay I don’t feel so bad for flushing them anymore.
Cuz they don’t shower obviously
I've never thought they smell bad... they smell nice and fresh when you squish them.
Poor stink bugs 😢
Kelly yummy
I have squished many stink bugs but I have never smelled any bad smell...
They aren't the right ones, I've killed some that look alike and thry don't sting
Problxms 問題 oh, ok then, good to know they were framed
Here in Montana in late fall, they are everywhere and in large numbers
I once found one tangled in my hair 😑
i would have gotten a heart attack
the horror!
I have stink bugs and lady bugs in my room every winter... all winter.
Why do stuff smell in the first place? they release smell? spread with the wind? all the above? why?
And thanks for the nice video.
The smell is even worse when you accidently squish it😂
We call them in serbian "Smrdibuba" the smellybug, and hell yes I know how they stink, they literally besiege my room, I must tell that I live near a forest so it is quite logical, but there are so many...
He is on my shoulder honestly a vibe 🦋✨
It's fun to impale them on needles, Vlad style. Make a collection on your window sill.