More on the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug....

       I just sprayed a group of Brown Marmoraded Stink Bugs with pure ether (starting fluid) at approximately 1601 hrs... All but 1 died or is in stasis. I checked back at 1603 hrs. and the "controller" stink bug was not dead, he was still moving. I went to check again at approximately 1606 hrs. The stink bug is gone. I sprayed him extensively with ether. There are more stink bugs in the garage, so the low number defense mechanism was not the issue. I checked again at approximately 1614 hrs. I can smell the defense mechanism that they excrete through the ether. The "controller" bug is back at 1712 hrs... I noticed he has a very very thin border on his shell, black and white checkers. A little different than the others and the border did not appear until I sprayed him with the ether again. At approximately 1715 hrs, the stink bug vanished again. I should be able to recognize him by the blue paint next time. lol. Just to make sure.

      OK... I see what's going on with this Brown Marmorated Stink bug.... When you spray it, it is drawing in what you're spraying it with and pushing it right back out. I walked out into the garage and I immediately smelled the defense mechanism odor combined with the small amount of paint I sprayed the bug with. There is no way the paint could create the strength of the odor I sprayed the bug with that I smelled when I walked back into the garage. Ether and spray paint have noticeably different odors, this was different than the normal excretion odor. It looks like whatever you spray it with, is pulled in through it's shell and excreted from the exoskeleton underneath. The more I'm thinking about the stink of the bug and paint combined, the more I noticed the odor of the ether I sprayed at first was multiplied by at least x2.

      I don't mean to put a fright in anyone but, I'm living in the country right now, and on the horizon, which is still mostly country in the direction I took this photo, I see hazey brown haze (the only way I can describe it.) I think I'm right about the amplification of the chemicals and elements in the air that this Brown Marmorated Stink Bug juice is emitting into the atmosphere.

UPDATE: At approximately 2053 hrs. I just sprayed the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug with ether again. I saw motor oil on the shelf and poured a little bit on him. I noticed the ether didn't even slow him down, but the motor oil either killed it or put it to sleep. At approximately 2100 hrs I returned to look at the stink bug. It looks like shell is excreting a block ooze. The motor oil was unused and new, so it wasn't dirty oil. By the way, I used GTX Castrol 20 x 50. LMAO. Just in case someone is putting something in the oil. I'm laughing harder at that. At 2114 hrs... I checked again, the oozed subsided but, it looks like the oil suffocated it immediately. How bout a nuclear oil bomb. Let's see what that does?! LOL. Does it kill them? I don't mean to make a joke out of it but.... GOD I HATE THAT SMELL.

UPDATE 2: I Just tried to replicate the same thing to a new stinkbug that I did in the last update. Failure. The same thing did not happen. I've noticed every time I use a chemical on the stink bug, the next one does not die like the previous. That is weird. It seems I've tried to kill them a hundred different ways over the past couple years and each time, I find something good, they either take longer to die or, don't die at all the next time I try it. LOL

(NOTES:) Cigarette smoke seems to provoke an excretion.

If there is a micro-organism within the excretion of this bug... That might explain the disapearence of the honey bee.

Think carbon monoxide on this multiplication of concentration of the odor that I wrote of in the post.

If ether isn't killing them, they're chemical resistant. Like cockroaches.

I doused them pretty good with ether. At least 5 second sprays.

I'm pretty sure they are from Burma even.

A good question about this bug.... Was it genetically modified in any way, to carry a bio-organism or chemical? If so... What?

Another quick note, is that I've noticed in the garage where spiders used roam about from time to time, not really an infestation just normal spider presence. I have not seen one yet. I'll keep an eye out through the season and see if they come back. If they don't does that mean stink bugs are poisoning spiders?

OK... I am looking at stink bug from another country that we don't know a whole lot about. There are benefits but not for us. It reminds me of Biological warfare tactics throughout history. Same as killer bees, same as banana spiders, snake heads etc. Has anyone seen the Ohio River during the summer time when the fish just jump into the boat? That fish is not native to the US. Think about those damn European barn sparrows. They're aggressive as hell and take over all the bird homes. Another good idea on the nuclear oil bomb... Let's not waste the research, How bout putting our most violent offenders from 3 races in restraint chairs located approximately 1 mile from the blast location and see what that does to humans. Might as well throw a dolphin in there too and see what it does to aquatic mammals. One more, lets not forget fish... Large bull shark.