How to recognize a stink bug and get rid of the pest?

The stink bug is a fairly large insect (stink bug). Such small pests appear in many regions of Russia. At the same time, berries and people suffer from their specific unpleasant odor.

The stink bug communicates with other insects using various signals, which allow stink bugs to navigate well in unfamiliar terrain, protect themselves, or simply survive. In such a situation, these insects emit the strongest aroma.

How to get rid of such small pests? A detailed answer to this question and other nuances are given below in the article.

Effective means to combat

For chemical treatment of garden plots, insecticides of various types are used to influence insects. There are three groups of drugs:

1. contact (upon contact with a bug, they penetrate through the skin or shell into the pest’s body and destroy it);
2. intestinal (getting into the stomach of the bug along with food, destroying the digestive system and infecting the insect);
3. systemic action (contact-intestinal).

The choice of drug depends on the degree of insect damage to the area and the period of plant protection.

When using pesticides, it is important not to allow the drug to come into contact with mucous membranes, to follow the safety standards specified in the instructions and how to use the solution. Forest bugs always live in conditions that are as comfortable as possible for their existence

If the situation changes, they often find shelter in a person’s home. The stink bug's bite does not pose any danger, especially since it is not capable of biting a person at all. If bedbugs from the street crawl into your house, then don’t panic

Forest bugs always live in conditions that are as comfortable as possible for their existence. If the situation changes, they often find shelter in a person’s home. The stink bug's bite does not pose any danger, especially since it is not capable of biting a person at all. If bedbugs from the street crawl into your house, then don’t panic.

Since they feed on plant foods, once in a home environment, window bugs can settle in indoor plants and gradually destroy them. In this case, it is necessary to clear the apartment of uninvited guests. The easiest way is to throw them out an open window.

There are several methods to combat forest bugs:

• collect manually when the area is slightly contaminated;
• use infusions, which must be made on the basis of mustard and onion peels; they will have to be used to treat the plants several times;
• spray the plantings with karbofos, chlorophos or phosphamide.

Karbofos

Knowing how to get rid of stink bugs, you should choose the safest and most effective methods, and also take into account that there are no highly targeted drugs for their destruction.

The following options are considered the most popular:

1. In a residential building, you can use a folk remedy that contains dishwashing liquid and nicotine. It is necessary to crumble a pack of inexpensive cigarettes, add warm water (2 liters) and leave for several hours. After this, add dishwashing liquid to the resulting solution, mix thoroughly and strain.
2. A drop of hot paraffin from a burning candle will help quickly neutralize the beetle, and simply heated wax has the same effect.
3. In a vegetable garden or orchard, you can use the drug Fufanon Nova, which successfully repels bedbug attacks on cultivated plants and prevents the pest from multiplying. However, such a remedy is not used in an apartment.
4. Women's hairspray perfectly seals all the breathing and smelly holes on the shield bug's body.
5. Since the stink bug breathes through the pores on its body, you can try to neutralize the insect before it has time to release its smelly liquid using ordinary water. To do this, you need to fill the container with water, dissolve soap in it and quickly throw the bug into this solution.

The liquid, which is toxic to the beetle, will not allow it to empty its odorous glands and will save your home from an unpleasant odor. After some time, when the insect dies, the solution can be poured into the toilet.

Since the stink bug is not one of the insects dangerous to humans, there are no chemicals whose action is aimed specifically at its destruction. Therefore, the fight against it should only begin if the number of insects begins to increase sharply, which can lead to serious consequences for your garden plot.

The harm that bedbugs can cause to humans

In fact, these insects do not cause much harm to humans. Yes, their smell is very unpleasant for humans, but that’s where the harm ends. The smell of bedbugs can be different, depending on the species to which a particular insect belongs. Stink bugs generally do not carry disease, do not bite people, and do not spin webs. Since they feed mainly on plant foods. Getting into human homes, they can only damage indoor plants.

If we are talking about gardens and vegetable gardens, bedbugs can also damage plants that people grow, such as apples, peaches, tomatoes, soybeans and nuts. In Central Asia, these insects are often found on cotton. And such a bug as the Asian stink bug, also called the American stink bug, is the most ardent pest of agriculture.

How to detect a bug in an apartment: signs of the insect and its description

Having found out where bedbugs come from in a clean and tidy house, we will figure out how to detect the pest. The human ectoparasite has a flat, spherical body with short legs and a long trunk. It is very difficult to crush a hungry insect due to the shape of the body, but when it drinks blood, you just need to press down lightly

Therefore, having decided what causes bedbugs in the apartment, pay attention to the bloody spots on the bed. This is the main sign of the presence of a parasite in the house.

The insect's body color ranges from transparent white (larvae) to burgundy brown (when saturated with blood). The body can be 3-8 mm in length, but often these are adults up to 5-6 mm. One individual drinks up to 5-7 µl of blood. This is 1.7-2.5 times larger than the pest itself. To accommodate such an amount of food, the insect's belly stretches in height. This type of ectoparasite is clearly distinguishable from other household pests due to the shape of its body.

Bedbugs leave other signs of their presence in the apartment:

• black dots and “poppy seeds” on wallpaper, furniture, bed linen - feces;
• body parts;
• an unpleasant almond odor - an enzyme that is secreted by an insect at the moment of fright;
• a feeling of mustiness and dampness in the room or from the linen.

But the main sign that bedbugs have settled in the house is bites on the human body. They have a pronounced character - the insect bites along a line. The female lays approximately 250-300 eggs in six months, so within a week two adult individuals can flood the room with bloodsuckers. This means that, having discovered signs of a parasite in the house, you should not go into detail about why bedbugs appear in an apartment and clean houses; you need to take immediate action.

How to recognize?

The stink bug, also known as the wood bug, is colored light green. The chitinous cover carefully hides the insect from enemies among the foliage and in summer it is quite difficult to detect it with the naked eye. With the onset of autumn, the leaves change their shade, starting to play with rich warm tones, and the bug does not lag behind - its shell acquires a brown tint and gives the insect the opportunity to continue to camouflage itself.

The wood bug has a round body shape with protrusions on both sides. This structural feature is characteristic of insects of the shield family. The chitinous cover is quite hard, it serves as protection from external influences. At the end of the back, folded wings are visible, which peek out from under the green shell and are brown in color.

Young animals hatched from eggs are practically no different from adults in their color and shape - they have the same light green cover and oval body. The only difference is the absence of wings. They appear only after the young individual reaches puberty. During this period, the larva manages to shed the old shell 5 times, which from time to time becomes too tight, and ultimately the body length can reach 15 mm.

Interesting fact! Not all larvae that are born reach sexual maturity. Most of them die, since some do not have enough strength to get out of their tight shell during the molting period.

What do bedbugs smell like?

What bedbugs smell like has its own associations for different people. Some people claim that bedbugs smell like raspberries/other berries, cognac, almonds, spices, or overripe bananas.

Outdoor insects of this family are endowed with a particularly strong odor. But household pests also have their own specific scents.

Homemade

To protect your home from uninvited guests, you need to know what house bugs smell like. Such insects have their own specific smell. It is actively secreted by mature females with a secretion with which they attach the eggs to various surfaces.

To people, this aroma resembles fermented berries or over-aged cognac. If such a smell in a living space is quite persistent, then this is a clear sign of a strong infestation of parasites.

When trying to understand what bedbugs smell like in an apartment, you should keep in mind that this smell is relative. It is stronger than that of cockroaches or ants, but weaker than that of outdoor species of hemipterans.

Bed sheets

Many vigilant owners, especially those who live in rented housing, know the signs of bedbugs in an apartment. They clearly understand what bed bugs smell like. Many people associate this aroma with over-aged cognac.

With a large population of parasites, the smell will be more concentrated. It is especially pronounced near sleeping places (bed, sofa).

Prevention of insects

To prevent bedbugs from moving into the house (especially for private houses and summer cottages), it is recommended to install mosquito nets on the windows. Plant a plant called black cohosh along the perimeter of the summer cottage and around the house. It actively repels pests with its unpleasant odor and does not allow them to get too close to the house and crops.

Bed bugs tolerate winter quite well. Before the onset of the first frost, it is necessary to remove fallen leaves, weeds and snags, in which parasites can hide from the cold. Carefully check cracks and holes in the fence, hollows.

As a preventive measure, you can use folk remedies, since they do not cause harm to humans and plants. Once a month for 2-3 days, spray mustard solution or onion peel tincture.

Features of existence

The green bug overwinters under a bed of fallen leaves. He buries himself deep under it and becomes numb. Spring for him is a time of awakening. At this time of year, adults begin to mate and breed offspring.

Despite the fact that adults still have wings, they use them extremely rarely. This is explained by the fact that it is very difficult for an insect to rise into the air due to its small span and insignificant lifting force. Therefore, he takes off only when he is sure that a satisfying meal awaits him ahead.

The characteristic smell and damage caused to agricultural land are the main reasons why many people dislike this insect. The bug gradually destroys the plants on which it hides, sucking all the juice from its stem.

The stink bug is not very picky about food. He can feed on the juice of many plants; tree leaves, grass, cereals and berries are suitable for him; he especially loves raspberries. In some cases, this parasite can even feed on the remains of insects that it finds under fallen leaves.

The characteristic smell of a bug

Wood bugs have a very strong sense of smell and distinguish their fellow tribesmen by smell. And it begins to emit a scent when it feels danger is approaching.

On the back of the cephalothorax of the shield bug there are special glands with an odorous liquid, which it uses to scare away potential enemies. For other insects it is poisonous and can paralyze and even kill, but the bug itself cannot be harmed by it.

How dangerous is this insect?

Since the main food of the green bug is plant juices, including cultivated plants, it poses a serious threat to agriculture. Settling on the seedlings, the insect begins to suck the liquid out of them and after some time the plant loses its ability to bear fruit and dies. Bed bugs can destroy entire fields, causing huge losses to their owners.

After saturation, the wood bug injects saliva with a high content of poison into the plant. This is what influences the rapid death of the seedling. They always parasitize the plants on which they lay eggs. The average number of eggs laid reaches 40, but this value may vary depending on the type of insect.

In agriculture, stink bugs are poisoned with various toxic compounds, to which they quickly acquire immunity. Due to this circumstance, insecticide manufacturers are forced to constantly create new chemicals that will protect fields from pests.

Which bedbugs can be really dangerous and which ones are just pests?

There are significantly more bedbugs that feed on blood, but only three species are important to people:

• bed (Cimex lectularius);
• pigeon (Cimex columbarius);
• Triasomes (Triatominae).

The latter are a family of 130 described species.

Bed

Bedbug

The only representative of truly domestic bedbugs. “Domesticated” back when humanity lived in caves. An obligate synanthropic parasite that has coexisted side by side with humanity for many thousands of years. In the process of developing civilization and increasing comfort, I found many new shelters, except for cracks in rocks. As a malicious “recidivist”, he has other nicknames:

• Bed bugs began to plague people at the same time that beds covered with skins appeared. Having moved there from a pile of fallen leaves that previously served as a bed for people. Now it has become much more convenient to approach the victim in order to get enough. Photos of bed bugs at different stages of saturation are just below.
• Believa. As soon as humanity discovered that it is much warmer in the skin of an animal than without it, the domestic bloodsucker had the opportunity to travel long distances and have a dining room just steps away. The parasite was even more happy about the transition of people to thinner tissues. Having appropriated the name linen bug. You can see in the photo bed bugs that have taken a liking to clothes in the closet.
• Furniture bug. People learned to make home furniture and began to furnish their homes with it. “Hurray,” said the synanthropic parasite and made excellent shelters in the joints of the furniture walls. Along the way, he gave himself the nickname “furniture guy.” You can see in the photo what bedbugs look like when they are stuck in the cracks of home furniture.
• Bed. People began to make special beds made of several parts, lay mattresses stuffed with straw on them, and put pillows with bird feathers. The family’s “faithful friend” decided that he had gone to heaven. The size of the bedbugs allowed them, if there was a small hole in the fabric of the mattress, to hide in a place inaccessible to humans. For some time, beds became the main habitat of humanity's home companion. And people began to call the bloodsucker a bedbug. The appearance of upholstered furniture led domestic ectoparasites into ecstasy. Now it is possible to lay eggs directly on the upholstery of a sofa or chair. The photo below shows what bedbug eggs look like when laid on furniture upholstery.
• Clothing. Improving the migration ability of people with the invention of fast-moving transport also turned out to be useful for household bedbugs. Climbing into things packed into a suitcase, they migrated to America. To the North, since South American competitors did not agree to recognize the settler. The Aborigines turned out to be predatory relatives who do not disdain cannibalism. Attempts to hide in home closets did not help European bedbugs. But the domestic ectoparasite acquired a new name. In the photo, domestic bloodsuckers are in a suitcase.

Signs of the presence of a parasite

Pigeon

Not only do people get bedbugs; birds also suffer from them. Pigeon (swallow) ectoparasite attacks chickens, turkeys, and pigeons. This is a very small and difficult to distinguish insect while it is hungry. The bloodsucker in the chicken coop is especially dangerous. You can see what a drunk parasite looks like on a chicken in the photo.

It may appear in an apartment if street pigeons infected with ectoparasites have built a nest on the balcony. While the birds are raising their offspring, the “vampires” prefer to sit in the nest litter, parasitizing the birds.

After raising the offspring, the pigeons leave the nest, and the hungry bloodsucker enters the house, attacking people in search of food.

What do house bugs look like in the photo: bed bugs on the bottom left, pigeon bugs on the right.

Bed bug and pigeon bug

Social structure and reproduction

There is no species competition among representatives of different subfamilies and families. If we consider a group of pests of the same variety, then males often occupy primacy in the social structure.

This occurs due to the need to compete with other candidates for mating with the female. Because of this, the level of aggressiveness of male insects increases.

Mating process of stink bugs

Bedbugs reproduce in the summer. Eggs are laid 1 time or more. To reproduce, bedbugs need a comfortable temperature: +20…+30°C. The female often leaves eggs on plants.

The process of laying eggs by a female green tree stink bug

Population and species status

The stink bug is not an endangered insect. This applies to all varieties of outdoor insects that live on plants and emit an unpleasant odor. Such insects quickly reproduce and develop, which helps maintain the number of their colonies at a high level every year.

Types of stink bugs

To prevent infection of an area, it is recommended to study the characteristics of representatives of various families and subfamilies. This will allow you to take action in time and save the crop and plantings.

Stinky

This is the name given to representatives of different species of pests of the order Hemiptera, which emit an unpleasant odor:

• two-toothed shield;
• black-whiskered shieldweed;
• Italian bug;
• berry pest;

• red-legged shieldweed;
• cruciferous bug;
• harmful turtle;
• American stinkweed, etc.

Green bug

This is a berry pest from the scale insect family. A medium-sized insect (up to 12 mm), green or brown in color. Body color changes depending on the season. So, in spring and summer there is a green bug, in the fall it darkens and turns brown. This is due to the need for camouflage on plants that are left without foliage. Such pests feed on fruits, more often on berries, for example, raspberries and currants.

A representative of stink bugs called the green bug

forest stink

This group includes some species of shield insects (berry, wood). The insects have common external features: green or brown color, body size in the range of 10-13 mm, a hard shell resembling a shield, the upper part is wide with protrusions on the sides, tapering downward. An adult can fly, attacks plants, and feeds on fruits.

Stink bug, popularly called a forest bug

Tree stink bug

This is another type of green bug. Lives in large plantations: found in trees and shrubs. The body size reaches 16 mm, but smaller individuals are also found (from 11 mm). Other features: segmented darker antennae, light green body color, triangular shape. These individuals are distinguished by a long period of hibernation: from November to April/May. They feed on the sap of deciduous trees and shrubs, and also attack other insects.

Tree stink bug.

Garden parasite

Garden insects include the harmful turtle, berry bug, etc. Such insects destroy vegetation: vegetable gardens, grain crops. The body size is average - varies from 8 to 15 mm. Insects fly well, but spend most of their lives on plants and crawling. The color depends on the type of pest. For example, a harmful turtle has a convex shell and a brown color.

Stink bugs are constantly found in the garden.

Cucumber stink

This is the name of the insect that lives on cucumber plants. It is distinguished by a small body (3 mm), which makes it difficult to notice the pest. After the attack, the leaves of the plantings curl and die. By this sign, you can determine that the cucumbers have been attacked by such a pest.

Garden pest cucumber stinkhorn

What to do: measures to combat bed bugs

How to get rid of bed bugs? The remedies listed above are good, but the best measure is prevention.

Favorable sanitary conditions in the house, timely repairs - elimination of possible cracks, holes as a potential haven for malware; Careful use of furniture and used items; Considering that the bug can temporarily parasitize all warm-blooded animals, avoid contact with stray animals and isolate pets. How to remove bed bugs? Preparations and means for the destruction of ectoparasites - broad-spectrum insecticides, acaricides. How to remove bed bugs? Preparations and means for the destruction of ectoparasites - broad-spectrum insecticides, acaricides

How to remove bed bugs? Preparations and means for the destruction of ectoparasites - broad-spectrum insecticides, acaricides.

There are also transovarial anti-bedbug remedies that reduce the fertility of females in new generations.

How to choose a bed bug treatment? Drug groups

The parasite has a high degree of adaptation to toxic drugs (sprays, powders, liquids). For greater efficiency, several directions of influence are used:

• Larvicidal - the action is aimed at destroying larvae;
• Ovicidal – for egg laying;
• Imagocidal – effect on adults, preventing the hatching of larvae from eggs.

Based on the degree of impact, anti-bed bug remedies are classified into:

• contact action - the drug gets directly onto the body of the pest, breaks the chitinous layer, the outer integument, thereby leading to the death of the insect.
• intestinal exposure – enters the intestinal tract of the malignant, which subsequently leads to death;
• systemic impact - combines all methods of destruction.

How to get rid of bed bugs: proven remedies

How to choose the most effective bed bug treatment? Among the permitted insecticides and acaricides, there are groups of drugs and agents against bedbugs:

Peretroids (Pralletrin, Cypertetrin, Cyganotrin, etc.): have an instant paralytic effect by blocking the active substance. transmission of nerve impulses to the pest’s central nervous system, which provokes its death.

Among the drugs: Cypermethrin EC, Tetracin, as well as those containing FS drugs - Absolut-dust, etc.

Neonicotinoids: relatively new drugs, belong to nitromethyl heterocyclic compounds, previously used in agriculture. By blocking nicotinic receptors, the central nervous system causes the death of the insect.

Among the drugs: Thiamethoxicam (Aktara), Imidacloprid, Confidant.

Organophosphorus compounds (OP) are a long-known group of effective insecticides based on pentavalent phosphorus. It has an ovicidal effect, some nerve paralytic, and has the properties of a contact and intestinal pesticide.

Among the well-known drugs of the group are Karbofos, Fenthion, Chlorpyrifos, Chlorophos, Averfos, etc.

Carbomates (carbamic acid derivatives): affect the central nervous system of the insect, the effect is comparable to FOS.

Among the means – Effective Ultra, etc.

Chitin inhibitors: destroy the chitinous membrane of the imago.

And many others (by the way, less effective).

• Class I - the most toxic drugs, used by sanitary specialists in cases of high parasitic infestation;
• Class II – drugs with a relatively high degree of toxicity, also more often used by sanitary and epidemiological workers;
• Class III - pose less danger to humans due to lower toxicity; it is possible to use products at home to get rid of bedbugs yourself;
• Class IV - the least toxic agents.

Is it necessary to fight tree stink bug?

You should not fight tree stink bugs if there is no need. If these insects find themselves in your apartment, do not panic and poison them with chemical insecticides, as this can harm your health. It's better to just let the bedbugs outside.

It is worth fighting bedbugs only if they have abundantly populated your garden or vegetable plot. In this case, several treatments with a special insecticide will be sufficient. To combat bedbugs, contact pesticides are suitable.

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Stink bug feeding

The forest shield beetle is one of the garden pests, since in addition to deciduous trees it also likes to feast on garden plants. It is often seen on berry bushes and trees. This stink bug is especially fond of raspberries. It is harmful because when picking berries you often come across it, and its stench spreads not only in the air, but remains on the berries. The stink bug cannot bite a person. But feeding on plant sap, stink bugs can even kill the plant-breadwinner.

The birch stink bug prefers deciduous trees:

• beech;
• oak;
• birch;
• willow;
• poplar;
• alder;
• holly;
• juniper.

Another bug similar to the “main” stink bug is the black-whiskered stink bug. It is easy for a non-entomologist to confuse the green and black-whiskered shield bugs. They have similar colors, depending on the season, and the same food supply. At the beginning of summer, the black mustache prefers legumes, cruciferous and aster plants, and in the second half of summer it competes with its fellow. Both of these species are found on berry bushes. They both stink, but the smell may vary. Although in neither case can this smell be called pleasant. Photos of all three types of “stinkers” are below.

Green wood bug, birch bug and black-whiskered bug

The easiest way to combat forest bugs of all types is with the help of insecticides. If there are few stink bugs, they can be collected by hand. But not everyone will dare to crush them, since the bug stinks when you crush it. The stink bugs released alive will return to the garden. But you can collect them in a container with water and, after cleaning the garden from stink bugs, seal the container. Stink bugs are afraid of decoctions of aromatic herbs: wormwood, chamomile, black cohosh. It’s worse if stink bugs appear in the apartment.

Review of the types of most odorous bedbugs

There are several representatives that are characterized by an intense stench:

• Palomena green
• Red-legged stink bug
• Two-toothed shieldweed
• Shield berry
• Northern cruciferous bug.

In order to get rid of an insect if such a situation arises, you need to pay attention to a number of external signs. In this case, it will be possible to avoid contact with the bug before it begins to spread the smell. Green Palomena This is a bug with a characteristic color, as the name suggests

But this is only in warm weather; closer to cold weather, the insect changes color to red-brown. The green pest is a representative of the Shield family. It is also known by another name – grass bug.

In the place of the plant where the bug feeds on it, yellowish-whitish spots appear

Red-legged stink bug

An insect of this species also emits a smell. The pest can be identified by its interesting color - the color of old bronze. This species of stink bug feeds on plant foods (shrubs, fruit trees) and insects. This is one of the most common insects that emit an odor.

Identified by the bronze color of the body, the largest representative is up to (15 mm)

Two-toothed shieldweed

Refers to carnivorous insects. The basis of its diet is caterpillars. Even if such a bug emits an unpleasant odor, it should not be destroyed, since it implements a protective function - it saves fruits and plants from caterpillars. Such an insect can hardly be called a pest.

Eats caterpillars and is therefore a beneficial insect

Shield berry

This is a bug with an amazing ability to absorb poisonous fruits: henbane, wolfberry. However, you can also notice the insect eating currants and raspberries. The main disadvantage is that an unpleasant odor may remain on the berries.

Mainly found on berry bushes, which are poisonous to humans.

Northern cruciferous bug

Outwardly a very attractive insect. However, they are not at all harmless, since cultivated plants serve as their food source. This causes significant damage to the crop. This means that it is better to get rid of this pest as soon as possible.

There is a very beautiful pattern on the back, reminiscent of a frightening African mask.

What bugs emit a strong odor?

In addition to those discussed above: berry bug, serrated bug, biped bug, green bug and northern cruciferous bug, there are others that are characterized by intense secretion of secretory fluid.

These include:

• Harmful turtle;
• Belostoma (water insect);
• Striped shieldweed;
• Water strider;
• American stink bug or Asian stink bug.

Tips on how to get rid of stink bugs in your home

If a stink bug appears in your home, you should arm yourself with proven methods of fighting it.

Stinky bug in the apartment - what to do?

In Russia, the stink bug insect is quite widespread. These insects love moisture, so most often they can be found near bodies of water. During the breeding season, insects move to drier habitats and often end up in a house or apartment. If you find bedbugs in a living room, it will be enough to throw the insects out the window, since they do not pose any threat to health.

Where does the stink bug come from and does it bite?

The scientific name of the stink bug is wood stink bug. It is known as an insect that feeds on the sap of garden and wild plants, which ultimately leads to their death. The beetle has a special specific smell, by which a person can determine that it is a stink bug, even without seeing it. Insects have different colors, they change with the season and weather conditions. If in summer the shield bug is green, then closer to autumn it turns brown, as if adapting to the surrounding environment. The different colors of the stink bug are shown in the photo:

I get stink bugs into my house most often by accident, flying through a window or vent. In the apartment they become disoriented and attempt to fly. They can get into the living space intuitively, feeling the warmth and finding themselves in the apartment during a sharp deterioration in weather conditions. Natural disasters and fires can also be the cause. The insect instinctively seeks better living conditions, but does not pose any danger to human health.

How long does a beetle live and who eats them?

The stink bug can live longer in an apartment than in the wild. Low temperatures do not kill the beetle, but shorten its lifespan from 1.5 years to 1 year or less. The female stink bug lays eggs daily, about 1-12 eggs. Thanks to the secretion produced, it attaches them to the surface of walls, furniture, ceilings, etc.

The places where bedbugs are located can be determined by the smell of this secretion. Depending on the ambient temperature and humidity in the room, the duration of egg development depends. Favorable conditions contribute to rapid development, about 30-40 days; under worse conditions, the indicator doubles: 80-100 days. The stink bug is food for larger insects (spiders, red ants), as well as for rodents.

What do stink bugs eat and how do they reproduce?

The stink bug has a special sucking apparatus with spines, which is designed to extract juice from plants by piercing their surface for food. In winter, the beetle falls into suspended animation, and with the onset of spring and the appearance of the first plants, it awakens and goes in search of food. Most often, the stink bug is found on gooseberry and raspberry bushes; among the trees it is alder and larch.

After settling on any plant where there are enough reserves for living, the stink bug lays eggs on the leaves of a bush or tree. After two weeks, the eggs turn into larvae, which also feed on plants. The larvae are bright green in color, they can be seen in the photo:

How to get rid of stink bug

The question of getting rid of beetles most often becomes relevant when the stink bug harms the plants being grown. The bite of such an insect does not threaten a person, and the stink bug itself is not dangerous in anything except an unpleasant odor. If your plants are in danger, it is worth taking measures to combat beetles.

Simple methods to combat stink bugs

To destroy parasites, it is necessary to use products from an American manufacturer consisting of contact-intestinal or simply contact insecticides (shown in the photo below). It is possible to get rid of the stink bug in this way, since the solution enters the stink bug through the integument or through the plant it eats, killing it.

How to get rid of stink bugs quickly

A person can get rid of bedbugs quite simply using home remedies. If your home smells unpleasant, then it is worth fighting the bugs using a chemical-free method. Pests can be destroyed by an analogue of chemicals - pyrethrins. This substance is found in flowers of the aster genus, especially in the form of pyrethrum. Pests also cannot tolerate bitter herbs such as wormwood, so you can get rid of them using an infusion of these components. One of the reasons why these products are more relevant than chemical ones is their harmlessness and the ability to use even in the house to remove wood bugs.

Description of the forest bug

The bug that lives in the forest has a rather frightening appearance, which allows it to scare away other insects and birds.

Photo of a forest bug

Adult

An adult bedbug can reach up to 1.6 cm in size. It has a flattened body resembling an irregular pentagon. The color of the bug may change depending on the time of year. In spring and summer it has a dirty greenish tint, and in autumn it turns brown.

Green and brown colors are another way the insect camouflages itself and protects itself from other forest inhabitants.

Adult forest bug

The bug has a developed wing system, but flies quite rarely. For this process he will need to spend too much energy. Therefore, he uses flight only in case of danger, in order to quickly leave the territory.

The insect feeds using a special sharp proboscis, which can be used to pierce the bark of a young tree or herbaceous plant. In this way, the bug absorbs juice, which is its main food.

Life cycle of forest bug reproduction

The female forest green bug lays eggs right at her feeding site - the back side of the leaf is used for this. The rough structure allows the eggs to be firmly held on the leaf even in windy weather conditions. Another place where the female can lay her eggs is the bark of trees.

Life cycle of forest bug reproduction

The incubation period during which the eggs must hatch into larvae is 10 days. The hatched larva resembles the adult in shape and appearance, but has a slightly different color. It takes one month after hatching for the larva to form an adult bedbug. During this period, several molts will occur and the insect will look like an adult forest bug.

Are forest bug bites dangerous?

Since forest bugs feed only on plant sap, there is simply no need for them to bite people - this is typical only for blood-sucking insects.

The main harm that these insects cause to humans is that they can damage garden or vegetable plants. But their bite does not pose any danger to humans.

Appearance and features

Considering that different insects (representatives of completely different families) are called stinking, it is not possible to provide their description. You should study the signs of several pests, which will allow you to navigate and understand which parasites have settled in the area. The main feature of all individuals is that the smell (secret, volatile substances released as a result of the work of the pests’ glands) is used not only as a measure of attracting insects of the opposite sex.

Let's recognize the enemy by sight

Despite the fact that stinkers are called representatives of completely different species, which often have many differences, they also have some similarities:

• 6 legs, and they are multi-segmented (there are from 3 to 5 elements);
• 1 pair of antennae (also multi-segmented) - used as a sense organ, providing the ability to move in space in search of food and insects of the opposite sex;
• leathery, hard shell (chitinous covers) – protects from mechanical damage, chemicals, prevents dehydration;

• Most garden bugs have wings, but not all of them; as a rule, they are paired: the front ones are protected by a cover, when folded they resemble a shell (chitinous shell), the rear ones are transparent, larger;
• the oral apparatus is of the piercing-sucking type, upon closer examination only the proboscis is visible, the jaws are not large enough, they can be seen under a microscope.

The stink bug has a piercing-sucking mouthparts

The most obvious differences are the size and shape of the body, as well as color.

They look different, because the chitinous shell is still being formed, so the color can be much lighter or, conversely, darker.

Stink bugs reproduce very quickly

Harm of the stink bug

Insects with this characteristic eat plant foods. At the same time, they insert the oral apparatus (its long thin part - the proboscis) into the tissue. At the same time, saliva containing special components enters the damaged area. These substances contribute to the disruption of tissue structure. As a result, where the puncture was made, a compaction remains and the leaf/fruit is deformed. The processes can be different: plant tissues dry out, change color, and berries and fruits, as well as vegetables, deteriorate, rot, lose liquid, and wrinkle (signs differ depending on which parasite attacked).

Reproduction

In winter, shield bugs hide in forests under fallen leaves and are in a state of suspended animation. With the arrival of spring, they leave their wintering grounds and fly to gardens, fields, and bushes to gain strength after winter and nourish themselves with plant sap.

The egg looks like a barrel or a jug, it depends on the type of bug. On the empty egg you can see small teeth that held the lid until the larva hatched. The duration of the egg development stage depends on temperature conditions; usually the egg develops from a week to a month.

The larva hatched from the egg differs from the mature bedbug only in the absence of wings, and the color and shape of the larva and the adult bedbug are similar. A strong chitin shield prevents the larva from growing, so during the development process it sheds it five times. This is the most difficult stage of development for an insect. During this period, a large number of larvae fail to shed the shell that restricts their growth, and they die.

During the season, stink bugs lay eggs twice. They choose the inner side of the sheets to place their offspring. After just two weeks, the larvae emerge from the eggs and immediately begin to feed. The food for young individuals is the juice of the leaves. To get it, the larva pierces a leaf with a sharp proboscis, sucks out its juice, instead of which it injects poison.

Once inside the leaf, the poison causes it to wither. After this, the affected parts of the leaves dry out, break off and fall off. If there are a lot of such leaves on a plant, it will dry out - this is what can happen if a green bug settles on the site. The photo above perfectly demonstrates the consequences of his activities.

The larvae of each generation stage (there are 5 in total) are covered with a hard shell. To move to the next stage, you need to get out of the shell, and this is quite difficult. Therefore, not all larvae manage to survive to adulthood. Even more larvae are killed by birds and predatory insects, which also significantly reduces their population. Thus, their numbers are rarely so large that they can cause the death of bushes and trees.

The situation is completely different in the fields where cereal crops grow: the green bug causes the cereals to stop bearing fruit and then may die.

Chemicals for repelling and exterminating bedbugs

Household insecticides are used to create unsuitable conditions and also use them to destroy parasites. Effective drugs:

• Dichlorvos is known to many, but the modern version of the product contains a combination of several pyrethroids, this doubles or even triples the effect of negative effects on the nervous system;
• Executioner - available in the form of a solution, contains fenthion (an antipsychotic), the result of the treatment occurs quickly - the bedbugs die in a matter of hours (if they are in direct contact with the product);
• Hector is a powder that is safe for humans, but aggressive for bedbugs, does not contain insecticides, and the principle of operation of this drug is based on damage to the outer integument of pests;

• Delta Zone is a contact action agent that completely destroys bedbugs in 2-3 weeks (including the new generation), the mechanism of operation is based on damage to the nervous system;
• Fufanon is a universal remedy, the result of treatment is the same as in the previously discussed cases (the parasites die from paralysis), but the required effect is achieved earlier, since it is an aggressive drug.

Remedies for bedbugs

Traditional methods of killing bedbugs

Traditional methods of pest control are inferior in effectiveness to chemicals, so it is advisable to use them in the early stages of damage to a garden plot and as a preventative measure.

Bedbugs are sensitive to odors and this property of insects underlies most homemade solutions. The following compositions are used to treat plants:

• water infusion of onion peels (200 g of onion peels per 10 liters of water);
• mustard powder solution (100 g of dry mustard per 10 liters of water);
• soap solution (300 ml of concentrated soap per 10 liters of water);
• infusions from a mixture of plants of the aster family (chamomile, pyrethrum).

Such solutions and infusions are environmentally friendly. They do not contain substances harmful to humans and do not pose a threat to beneficial insects. In addition, such drugs have a low cost and can be easily prepared at home with minimal time.

Characteristics and description of the insect

The tree shield has a flat, oval body resembling an irregular pentagon with characteristic protrusions on the sides. It reaches 10-12 mm in length. Under the hard shell there is a pair of wings, which stand out on the surface of the body as a brown spot. Scent glands can be located both on the cephalothorax and on the posterior end of the abdomen, depending on the specific subspecies of the insect.

The color of the stink bug varies from bright green to brown. The change in the shade of the chitinous cover is determined by the time of year and the habitat of the pest. In the photo you can see that representatives of this species are distinguished by a very noticeable bright color, a stocky body covered with a dense shell.

stink bug

The stink bug has a piercing-sucking mouthpart. With its sharp proboscis it pierces the outer covers of leaves and plants and feeds on their juices. With the onset of cold weather, the insect falls into a state of suspended animation, in which it remains until the onset of spring. When the first tender greenery appears, the stink bug goes in search of a comfortable habitat, where it begins the active mating process.

The beetle or stink bug in the scientific world is called the black-whiskered stink bug, which belongs to the order Hemiptera. This species is characterized by the presence of glands that secrete a smelly liquid, which are located on the back of the cephalothorax.

The substance secreted by the bug poses a danger to other insects: it can cause temporary paralysis, and in some cases even lead to death. This liquid does not pose any danger to the beetle itself. Or rather, quite the opposite: the odorous secret, in addition to attracting a partner, is actively used to scare away enemies.

During the cold season, the stink bug hibernates and spends the winter buried in fallen leaves. The specific structure of the beetle's mouthparts allows it to pierce leaves and stems and suck out the juice from them. The wings of the tree shield have a small span, so it uses them quite rarely.

Wood bugs are small, flat, green or brown insects. Thanks to their color, the beetles blend in with the leaves of fruit trees and shrubs, so they are not easy to spot in the garden.

Stink bugs are harmless to humans. They feed on the juices of fruits and plants, often found on raspberries, gooseberries, apple trees or cherries. Sometimes they penetrate houses and apartments, where they can use indoor flowers as food.

A pungent, repulsive odor comes from the secretory fluid, which is secreted from the glands located on the abdomen of the bug. The intensity of the “aroma” depends on the reason that provoked the release of the secretion. Using the smell of bedbugs:

1. protect themselves from attacks by other insects, using the secretion as a weapon;
2. scare away larger predators;
3. attract a female for mating;
4. get rid of competitors;
5. identify other bedbugs.

Biological agents are progressive drugs, the popularity of which among gardeners is steadily growing.

The principle of action of biological products is based on the destruction of harmful insects using bacteria, parasitic fungi and viruses. They are non-toxic and are used even before harvesting without affecting the quality of the fruit.

The effect of using biological products is not immediately noticeable. The death of insects occurs no earlier than 3–4 days after spraying.

When using biological agents, it is important to remember that high humidity and low air temperature slow down the effect of the drugs and negatively affect the results of treatment. Cleaning and destroying fallen leaves, digging up the soil in autumn and spring, and regularly weeding reduce the risk of stink bugs appearing on the site and help protect garden plants from insect damage.

Cleaning and destroying fallen leaves, digging up the soil in autumn and spring, and regularly weeding reduce the risk of stink bugs appearing on the site and help protect garden plants from insect damage.

Why the smell?

The fact is that bedbugs have an extremely developed sense of smell. They subtly perceive and identify odors emitted by other members of the population. All bedbugs, even aquatic ones, have glands that produce smelly secretions. They are located on the cephalothorax. The secretion is poisonous, causes paralysis and death in other types of insects, bedbugs protect themselves with it.

A secret can frighten an opponent in the fight for a female. They can also attract a marriage partner or use smell to find one. Approaching danger can also cause the smell to spread.

Bed bugs in their mass smell like rotten cognac. A bedbug finds a person by the smell of blood.

In the USA, dogs are specially trained to search for nests of domestic bugs, teaching them to find parasites by a specific smell. With such a friend, exterminators can easily do their job. True, the assistant costs about 10,000 US dollars.

What kind of stink bug is he?

The photo of the stink bug shows that it has a flat, oval-shaped body with protrusions on the sides and a length of 10-12 mm. Its color can be different: bright green, yellowish or brown. Being light green, the bug blends in with the surrounding foliage and becomes invisible to birds. In the fall, when the leaves change their colors, the bug also changes; more warm shades appear in its color, which over time turn into brown, helping to camouflage itself with the background of dried foliage.

It feeds, like all its relatives, using its proboscis as part of its piercing-sucking mouthparts. Having punctured the integumentary tissues of plants, the pest absorbs their juices.

In winter, the insect goes into suspended animation to wait out the period of lack of food and warmth. To do this, he chooses leaf litter. With the onset of spring, insects flock to fresh greens. They especially like gooseberries and raspberries, but they can also annoy alder and larch. In the absence of their favorite objects, they can get enough of the juice of any plant and even a dead insect.

On green plants they waste no time and start mating. After fertilization, females lay eggs. Egg development takes about two weeks. The emerging larvae actively feed, suppressing the plants. Larvae are the same as adults, only smaller in size. Until adulthood, they undergo repeated molting (5 times) and a change in the chitinous shell. The young have no wings. They will appear only during puberty.

Adults rarely use their wings. Their low lifting force and insignificant range do not allow them to enjoy flying. They use their wings for a high purpose, such as a hearty meal.

Those individuals that did not have the strength to escape from the hard chitinous shell during molting die without ever reaching sexual maturity.

There are many species of shield insects; they form a whole family. They are characterized by a stocky figure and bright colors. Rectangular protrusions on the cephalothorax give stink bugs a massive, aggressive appearance, and distinguish them from other hemipterans. Brown folded wings are visible on the back.

Danger of the stink bug

When multiplying en masse, stink bugs can cause enormous damage by sucking juices from cultivated plants. Young seedlings die not so much from the fact that they lose a lot of nutrients along with the juice, but more from the poison injected by the bug, which leads to the death of the seedling. And they usually parasitize on those bushes on which they laid eggs. On average, the number of eggs laid reaches 40.

Do bed bugs smell?

Apartment parasites, like street parasites, secrete a special secret. If you are wondering whether house bugs smell, the answer is yes, but the intensity of the odor is much lower. This is due to the fact that there are fewer natural enemies of such insects in the apartment. There is no need to release pheromones in large quantities.

When danger arises (during bullying), a moderate odor is sufficient, since it will still reach the target. This is due to the fact that the conditions in the room and in nature are different. In the second case, the distribution of aromas is influenced by the wind. The smell can also be interrupted by plants, other animals, and insects.

It is important to understand why the bug stinks not only on the street, but also at home

Home bugs stink less than street bugs

Where does the bad smell come from?

Stink bugs have special glands that produce a special substance with an unpleasant, repulsive aroma. As a rule, the basis of such substances in forest bugs is cymic acid. Plus, these glands are multifunctional, secreting a substance of varying concentrations that can serve:

• As a weapon to repel natural enemies.
• As a substance to attract a sexual partner.
• To scare off their competitors (males).
• As a substance that helps to navigate in space.
• To find food for yourself.

It is important to know! The insects themselves do not experience discomfort from this aroma, but for other insects this substance poses a certain danger. A substance with an unpleasant aroma can cause paralysis, spasms or even death in an insect. In this way, the insect obtains food for itself.

If you take a bug and crush it, a strong disgusting odor will appear that can linger in the air for a long time. For forest bugs, such secretions are an effective weapon for self-defense. When a bug senses an approaching threat, its glands begin to actively secrete a stench. If an insect is crushed, the stench will intensify many times over. The natural enemies of stink bugs understand this very well, so they avoid them. As for humans, such aromatic substances do not pose any danger to them.

Almost all representatives of this insect species are capable of producing various aromas, the intensity of which depends on the specific subspecies of the insect. The following insects can demonstrate the ability to reproduce aromatic substances:

• Shieldweed (two-toothed, berry, red-legged, green and striped).
• Northern cruciferous bugs.
• The turtle is harmful.
• Water striders.
• Belostoma.
• American stink.

The well-known soldier bug, as well as the birch bug, are capable of secreting a special liquid that has a certain aroma. It should also be noted that many insects that managed to get into a person’s home can emit various aromas, although their intensity is not as high as that of stink bugs.

Is the stink of bedbugs dangerous?

If even a neighbor with a chronic runny nose can smell the aroma of parasites, this is a serious cause for alarm. There are several reasons for this:

1. At the beginning of infection, a person does not feel the stench of insects because there are too few of them. If you smell it, it means your house is filled to capacity with bedbugs. Severe infection is fraught with a large number of bites, and therefore more acute allergic reactions, which occur in 80% of people. Allergies are especially dangerous for young children, who are most sensitive to the accumulation of allergens.

Even harmless symptoms of allergies such as scabies and red spots can cause extreme stress and deprive you of sleep. In some cases, bedbug bites cause a more severe reaction that can result in anaphylactic shock.

1. As mentioned above, bedbug secretion is a toxin designed to repel the enemy. Of course, it cannot cause serious harm to a person, but regular and prolonged inhalation of any toxin is fraught with the same allergy and will definitely not benefit health.
2. Having discovered bed bugs in an apartment, people first try to find out whether any diseases are transmitted through their bites. We hasten to reassure you - the infectious danger lies not in bedbug bites, but in their excrement. Of course, the likelihood of contracting tuberculosis from inhaling bedbug excrement is extremely low, but as long as it exists, you cannot be safe.
3. Discomfort from the stench is likely to affect your health and quality of life. Many people are so annoyed by the unpleasant odor that they cannot sleep or do household chores normally.

Getting rid of odor

It is quite difficult to remove the smell from a home infested with bedbugs. First of all, you need to completely get rid of insects. This process is slow and in advanced cases can take a whole month. To quickly get rid of pests, they use the most effective poisons, without worrying about their toxicity and the stench they emit. As a result, the parasites are defeated, and the apartment smells unbearably of a mixture of the smells of bedbugs and their poisons.

It is wiser to choose drugs that last longer but wear off easily. Destruction of bedbugs without the smell of chemicals is quite possible; you can use the following means:

After getting rid of bedbugs, you will need a general cleaning, during which you will have to scrape and wash all corners of the apartment with disinfectants. You can try using the services of professionals - organizations involved in disinfection and professional cleaning promise to remove unpleasant odors.

In most cases, to get rid of the stench it is impossible to do without cosmetic repairs, since traces of the vital activity of parasites are eaten into the wallpaper, wood and whitewash.

Thus, the smell of bedbugs is absolutely useless for detecting these insects, because it becomes noticeable only when there is a large number of pests. But getting rid of ingrained aromas is associated with significant difficulties and material costs.

How to find bedbugs if you smell them

If you smell the smell of bedbugs in your apartment, the first thing you need to do is carefully inspect the entire room where the odor is present. You need to search:

• Whitish, translucent insect eggs, the size of a grain of rice.
• Brown empty skins.
• The parasites themselves.
• Pest larvae that look the same as adult bedbugs, but are smaller in size and lighter in color.
• Stubborn brown dirt on objects and surfaces.

Places that need to be visited first are:

• Mattresses or sofa cushions on all sides.
• Seams of bed linen, “insides” of pillowcases and duvet covers.
• Storage drawers in the bed.
• The side of upholstered furniture facing the wall, its bottom.
• Bedside tables.
• The space around baseboards, door frames, and window frames.
• Cabinets and closets where clothes that you have already worn at least once after washing lie and hang.
• The space under carpets, behind picture frames and photographs.

It is advisable to look for bedbugs during the day in natural light. If it is not enough or you need to look around some secluded place, use the flashlight on your phone.

Why do bedbugs stink?

Pests make themselves known through scent in a number of cases:

• when they are in danger;
• with the aim of scaring away fellows from the food source, which resembles an attempt to divide the territory;
• during the mating period.

This means that the larvae can emit an odor when they sense danger. Until they reach sexual maturity (several weeks after hatching from the eggs), they are not able to mate. This means that the larvae have no other reason to stink, except to provide themselves with protection from danger. In addition, the appearance of scent is the only way such insects communicate.

Bedbugs stink a lot. At the same time, the smell is specific, but recognizable, because it is quite often found in houses or on the street. It resembles the aroma of raspberries, spoiled jam, old cognac, fermented fruit.

Proverb

The bug is small and stinky!