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Hello and welcome to another edition of the pesky pest control podcast right here in Montgomery, Alabama with your host, Travis and Michael, we do this podcast as a community service for the River region. This includes Montgomery, Prattville, Millbrook, Wetumpka pike road, and any other surrounding areas for people just like you. Hey, so today we’re going to talk about another very aggravating and somewhat invasive pest for your house. And that is the brown marmorated stink bug. So these little creatures, or accidentally introduced from Asia, into the US, as you know, most pests are that we, you know, didn’t have up until a couple of years ago, or several years back, you know, and due to shipping and due to things like that, these pests tend to find a way, you know, even across oceans and across continents, to places that, you know, they weren’t normally indigenous to. So these little, these little aggravating bugs tend to show up right here at the end of summer and into fall, and then going on into winter. And they’re, you know, most of the time, they’re actually attracted to your house because of the heat from the sunlight. They look at it as a place to just bask and to warm up. And then lo and behold, of course, they find these cracks, crevices around your doors or in your windows, around your at eaves up into your attic, anywhere that they can go. And they start to look for a place to Oh, to do what we call over wintering, which is to find a place to basically hang out that’s warmer out of the weather up until the point where they can reemerge, you know in the spring when it warms up. So, but what’s the significance of this brown marmorated stink bug, one of the main significance is of it is it’s damage to actual crops, it’s agricultural damage, you know, they, they can damage anything from fruits, apples and things like that to other vegetable crops like corn and tomatoes, soy beans, and then other ornamental plants and things like that. So they can cause significant damage in large enough numbers to agricultural products. But you as a homeowner, that’s probably not what you’re worried about, you’re probably worried about their significance in your house and then to your health or your family’s health. And they can cause some allergic reactions for you and your family. They can cause you to have runny noses, and conjunctivitis, they can also flare up anybody who is sensitive to bad odors, which are living up to its name, the stink bug, it can actually have, you know, an influence on someone who is very sensitive to odors. Um, they typically don’t cause a lot of damage to your home. You know, maybe if they’re crushed or sucked up into a vacuum or something like that, they can really kind of have an odor that you would really notice. But more more often than not, they’re actually just a nuisance. I had one customer at one point, who swapped to us from a different company just because the other company could not figure out a way to get rid of these pests. And we ended up determining that they were coming in to the house from the outside through the attic, and then of course getting into the living space of the house. So we were able to treat the attic of the house and much to the customer’s happiness, they were gone. They didn’t have any more issues with those stinkbugs getting into the house, and basically crawling all over everything, and flying and getting into their face and landing on their food and things like that. Like I said it was just more of a nuisance and it was an allergy or something like that. So of course what do we do the best method, seal them out before they come in. Knowing that this time of the year they become more prominent, they start to look for a place to hide for the wintertime that’s warmer or something like that. You really want to make sure that you’re vigilant or that your pest control provider is vigilant and making sure that they’re stopped, whether mechanically by sealing them out or you know by the usage of some sort of product that’s labeled for them. You want to make sure that they stay on top of that before it becomes a problem. Hey, and thanks for listening to the pesky us pest control podcast here in Montgomery, Alabama with your host Travis and Michael. If you have any questions in reference to what we discussed today, please Give us a call at 334-595-9055 and you can ask for me Travis McGowan. I’ll be more than happy to speak with you. And don’t forget to share this podcast with your friends and family. And subscribe to us on Apple, Amazon, Google and Spotify. Thanks for listening and we’ll see you next time.
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