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  • @littleshante
    @littleshante Před 5 lety +202

    *sees a single stink bug for the first time in my room in years: searches the internet for ways to cause extinction*

    • @ravenlunityc1271
      @ravenlunityc1271 Před 4 lety +10

      Lucky we live in a damn forest i just woke up to one dive bombing me in bed i get at least 3 a day and have a flying bug paranoia so i wanna die every day

    • @fixthat3269
      @fixthat3269 Před 3 lety +1

      Good you don't want those little shits. I'd take a house full of spiders before a house full of them, gladly too.

    • @hika4397
      @hika4397 Před 3 lety +2

      Raven Lunityc I have a spider that usually catches bugs but it's eating a bee rn there is 3 in my room like why prob because I attacked one

    • @rynotheplant7821
      @rynotheplant7821 Před 2 lety

      five minutes ago I woke up to 3 of them crawling on em under my shirt so I want you make them extinct

    • @ranbymonkeys2384
      @ranbymonkeys2384 Před 2 lety

      @@ravenlunityc1271 hahaha

  • @jamesrutherford3139
    @jamesrutherford3139 Před 2 lety +24

    10 years later and this is still the best. Best video. Best Narration. Best Educational video. I love it. Thank you so very much.

    • @InappropriateShorts
      @InappropriateShorts Před 11 měsíci +1

      1500 years later, lessons from the bible are turning out to be true after all

  • @Matti_Leigh
    @Matti_Leigh Před 4 lety +90

    The 400 dislikes are from the stink bugs

    • @margl6635
      @margl6635 Před rokem +1

      Hahahahahahhahahhaha

    • @TWILAlovesJESUS
      @TWILAlovesJESUS Před rokem +1

      😂

    • @darthbane5357
      @darthbane5357 Před 4 měsíci

      Makes sense. They are attracted to light

    • @knockitofff
      @knockitofff Před 4 měsíci

      After Biden was installed (by massive cheating) CZcams (another scumbag arm of the left) had to take down the likes counter because it was proving how unpopular the new fake pResident is. So we can't see dislikes anymore.......Let's Go Brandon!

  • @captainobvious9233
    @captainobvious9233 Před 7 lety +145

    These bugs are driving me bat shit insane. I have my room literally sealed... and somehow they are getting in. They are like little kamikazes, I hear them crashing into everything.

    • @CherrysLife35020
      @CherrysLife35020 Před 3 lety +13

      Me too . I found this online. Take a tube of cheap toothpaste and put it in a spray bottle fill it up with water. Spray outside around windows and doorways
      Its really helped at my place. They don't like the smell of it. Also peppermint liquid works just as well. They don't like minty smells

    • @sherryfranks9934
      @sherryfranks9934 Před 2 lety +1

      I'm 11
      L

  • @odzmye
    @odzmye Před 13 lety +38

    My 2 cents: I agree with using a second bottle to separate the light source from the capture chamber to make disposal easier. The other thing I would suggest is to use a fabric tape on the outside rather than a masking tape. Something like a medical tape would make it much easier for them to climb to their doom. I intend to make and test this tonight. Well thought out folks!

  • @bloatedpotato
    @bloatedpotato Před 8 lety +270

    172 stink bugs watched this video

  • @kmarks66
    @kmarks66 Před 9 lety +67

    I built the trap exactly as described. It worked perfectly. Upon its first use, I watched three stink bugs approach the trap and climb right up and in. The only thing I don't understand is also what you had mentioned. They crawl down into the bottle through the spout and navigate around to the inside. Yet for some unknown, they can't reverse their way back around to the inside of the opening and back out. I must have watched this one stink bug walk around the opening from inside the trap a dozen times without just going through the opening and back ouside the same way he came in. After about twenty minutes, I went to bed figuring he woul be gone the next morning. But he never got out. Totally bizarre.
    Oh, as far as how to dispose of them... I just undo the tape from the top, take out the light, and dump them into the toilet. Then, hasta la vista stinkos - FLUSH!!!

    • @tazaxx21
      @tazaxx21 Před 9 lety +18

      Ken Marks They can't get out because they are dumb bugs.

    • @ZeeJBC
      @ZeeJBC Před 6 lety

      Ken Marks they’re like fish

    • @ObscureStuff420
      @ObscureStuff420 Před 3 lety +4

      They are the D students of the insect world.

    • @cherylebbing199
      @cherylebbing199 Před 2 lety +3

      Can you imagine all the stink bugs that go through to the sewage treatment plant by way of the toilet?

    • @tobeamiss1
      @tobeamiss1 Před 2 lety +1

      The toilet is the way to go!!!

  • @Deoxribonucleic
    @Deoxribonucleic Před 9 lety +12

    "SITTIN AROUND TO WATCH THE SHOW, WHATEVER MAY BE GOIN AHN IN THEIR LITTLE MINDS" - A TRUE MAN FROM PITTSBURGH

  • @wll1500
    @wll1500 Před 8 lety +44

    No fucking joke as i was watching this video in the dark on my laptop one of them crawled across my fucking shirt and about made me shit myself

    • @YuanMarcusMNunag
      @YuanMarcusMNunag Před 8 lety +7

      They're Fricking Uselss

    • @chalco6015
      @chalco6015 Před 8 lety +3

      +The BioDog Studios They're useful for ONE thing, and it's frog food. The damn bugs come back every year during winter, and I catch them and give them to my pet frog.

    • @AquaPJ
      @AquaPJ Před 7 lety +2

      Lol 😂

    • @AquaPJ
      @AquaPJ Před 7 lety

      Thomas Yim Reporting you, Sorry

    • @loveit8284
      @loveit8284 Před 7 lety

      Carl Respuesto you suck

  • @lynnmerrill1850
    @lynnmerrill1850 Před 8 lety +151

    This video and the comments are great! Stink bug haters unite!

  • @fairfield73cs
    @fairfield73cs Před 10 lety +110

    As I was watching this a stink bug flew across my room

  • @user-lu2tb9nc3x
    @user-lu2tb9nc3x Před 4 lety +12

    I used leftover black grill spray paint to spray the side of the bottle, left a portion of bottom clear for the light to shine through. I used small pieces of poster tape (double sided adhesive tape) to glue the top funnel portion to the bottle base. I also used poster tape pieces on the sides of the bottle for the bugs to crawl up. I got a cheap $1 L.E.D. light from Walmart (in a bin with small flashlights and head lights you put on your head in the camping dept). I placed the L.E.D. light in the base of a dark small plant pot and placed the bug bottle inside the pot over the light (stabilizes the bottle and holds the light). The light can be turned on before placing the bottle over it and the light doesnt get ruined from bug crap, and you dont have to maneuver a pen in the bottle to turn it on. Cheaper alternatives

  • @mercurydi
    @mercurydi Před 8 lety +89

    this made me laugh so much "friend? Pfft... little terrorist!" hahahahahaha!!! Good trap though, thanks for the video :)

  • @MrAbell12
    @MrAbell12 Před 4 lety +12

    One literally flew into my hair as I was reading comments about them flying around while watching this video.

  • @Connect200
    @Connect200 Před 10 lety +488

    I will be happy when these bugs become extinct. They serve no purpose but to cause issues.

    • @toekevin
      @toekevin Před 8 lety +19

      I had the exact same thought today. :)

    • @Krabby7Playz
      @Krabby7Playz Před 7 lety +12

      OPINIONATED_JUNKIE I don't know I would think something would go wrong....

    • @aokay9167
      @aokay9167 Před 6 lety +19

      OPINIONATED_JUNKIE And Mosquitoes too

    • @jonas3333
      @jonas3333 Před 6 lety +22

      But they're not going to any time soon. Conversely, their numbers are growing at crazy rates for something that didn't even exist here in the U.S. until 1998.

    • @lefthanded5473
      @lefthanded5473 Před 6 lety +27

      Because of global warming their mating season which is in the early spring is increasing. So the populations of stinkbugs are increasing. That's when natural selection kicks in. The strongest stink bugs with the most immunities will survive and reproduce. now there's a large population of stink bugs that are difficult to kill even most insecticides won't do the trick. And since they're from Asia there's no natural predator here that can mainly consumer them. That's why they are becoming a problem in the usa.

  • @jonasbrosrock11997
    @jonasbrosrock11997 Před 9 lety +190

    I can not believe you had them in your hand. I get the creeps just seeing one.

    • @parisourworld3754
      @parisourworld3754 Před 9 lety +6

      Jo kidding I have one in my room right now and I'm scared o_o

    • @parisourworld3754
      @parisourworld3754 Před 9 lety

      No*

    • @Ripcity636
      @Ripcity636 Před 9 lety +14

      stink bugs are the only bug im scared of lol nasty fuckers

    • @ErmWhatTheSpruce
      @ErmWhatTheSpruce Před 5 lety +10

      Their all over my window some even manage to come in and I evacuate my room they scare the living fuck out of me

    • @brianstevenson4432
      @brianstevenson4432 Před 5 lety +2

      Carley Gibson will you be my girlfriend

  • @georgescott3435
    @georgescott3435 Před 5 lety +38

    Your presentation was great to watch. The stink bugs in my house are sure theyown it.telling them that I pay the mortgage has fallen on deaf ears.Being a Army Vet, I have decided to out flank them.Your advise is as close as I can get to using Bouncing Betties.Thanks

  • @robinhenderson5202
    @robinhenderson5202 Před 4 lety +9

    Thank you so much!!! I just made my first stink bug trap per your instructions!!! Everything I needed I found at the dollar tree- even the round led light!!!💐

  • @Profane621
    @Profane621 Před 10 lety +69

    To all those who say they don't kill these bugs (especially after people having MAJOR infestation problems, seen stories of houses that they found over 20,000 of these f*ckers in ONE house).....PLEASE send me your address so I can mail you all of them that I find since you like them so much -.-

    • @goofballjohny
      @goofballjohny Před 4 lety +4

      Heather Atkins I missed Those comments. Some people actually believe that these bugs are reliable? They missed the fact that these bugs or what ever they are, are foreign and may have a greater purpose where they are from.

    • @goofballjohny
      @goofballjohny Před 4 lety +2

      They do kill a lot of insects on most of our plants, but are not quite friendly on some, this topic is quite unsettling. If this bug benefits you than keep it going, and if it does not than eliminate them. I respect the way that you handle your live stock if you respect mine. Mann collect your stink bugs and sell or give them to whom values them. There.

    • @juliecarlee5154
      @juliecarlee5154 Před 4 lety

      😂👍

  • @jameshernandez307
    @jameshernandez307 Před 8 lety +127

    I made several variations of this before I saw this video. I would quickly recommend that a piece of light cardboard be rolled around the bottom of the bottle instead of black tape and that it be long enough so that the light can be put UNDER it instead of inside it, this way you don't waste a light every time or play with the bugs to get the light back.
    What also works is get a big pot that you can fill halfway with soapy water and hang a light over it, a blacklight works best. I used an old fish aquarium, wrapped it in aluminum foil, and put a blacklight in the hood. Trapped several hundred a week.

    • @tweakfreak87
      @tweakfreak87 Před 8 lety +2

      +James Hernandez That's exactly what I was thinking.

    • @stevemichigan541
      @stevemichigan541 Před 6 lety +4

      Me to. Light outside

    • @dosduce
      @dosduce Před 5 lety +1

      good idea!

    • @johninmilford7719
      @johninmilford7719 Před 5 lety +12

      Light outside also allows you to simply add a bunch of soapy water to drown 'em.

    • @lindasoohoo8672
      @lindasoohoo8672 Před 4 lety +2

      I was thinking the exact thing, thanks for confirming that it works!

  • @RobinLL
    @RobinLL Před 13 lety +3

    I made one yesterday. Plugged it in about 4PM and checked this morning and there are about 8 bugs in there! IT WORKS!!! Less than 24 hrs and I'm catching alot of bugs. Let me add that we only saw about 1 bug a day on our wall so there are more in your house than you realize! They are good hiders!! I did buy a plug-in light though so I won't go thru alot of batteries. I just cut a "doggie door" type hole in the bottom to put the plug thru and taped it up really good. Thanks so much for this idea!

  • @WilliamHunterII
    @WilliamHunterII Před 4 lety +44

    In one afternoon I caught enough to make a pie.

  • @garychandler5274
    @garychandler5274 Před 10 lety +53

    I made this trap to use on my screened in porch where the stink bugs seem to love to gather and tried it for 3 weeks, a few stink bugs went in it but there were still a lot hanging on the walls and screen then I read that stink bugs put off a scent that attracts other stink bugs so I parked my wet dry on the porch and each time I seen one I sucked it into the Vac and sealed the end of the nozzle just to make sure it wouldn't crawl out. (the vac has a bag in it) after 2 weeks I did not see another stink bug and it has been 3 months now. Seems if you can keep them from spraying their scent to attach other stink bugs you can get rid of them

  • @ChippTips
    @ChippTips Před 9 lety +73

    You can trap stink bugs outside by hanging a wet towel. Drape it over a chair or clothes line around dusk. In the morning, you should have a big collection. Just dunk the entire towel into a bucket of soapy water. This will not get rid of stink bugs completely but it will help to reduce their population. I have had major success using neem oil. I love it because it is 100% safe and natural. I have kids and dogs so I don't like to use harsh chemicals around my home. I spray it on plants and around my windows and doors. There is a video on my youtube channel about how to use it to eliminate stink bugs if anyone needs more information.

    • @ZeeJBC
      @ZeeJBC Před 6 lety +1

      Chipp Marshal cool

    • @Emacspirate
      @Emacspirate Před 5 lety +2

      I've heard of folks using neem oil before with success, I'll have to try it. I have had success also with treating my window screen / sills with Denatured Alcohol as well. Trouble is that's a tab pricey and requires re-application for good effect. More frequent applications to start then maintenance as you see the need.

    • @Biggchad
      @Biggchad Před 5 lety

      They aren't outside they are in my room

    • @jojozepofthejungle2655
      @jojozepofthejungle2655 Před 5 lety

      I wonder if this works with the harlequin stinkbug in Australia. I got their numbers down by raking up all the dry leaves under a spruce tree where they were wintering. I did it in the heat of summer so they scattered and died of exposure. Soapy water kills the infant's but I did notice that they love water, I have some plants that must be filled with water for the lilly to come and they segregate here. Thanks for your comment. I'm sharing this on the garden site.

    • @jilliansmith7123
      @jilliansmith7123 Před 5 lety

      JoJoZen: they say diatomaceous earth works well. Dust it on all your shrubs and the leaf litter--it adds calcium to the soil and dries out their exoskeletons.

  • @dillonstadt7638
    @dillonstadt7638 Před 4 lety +5

    February 16th. The day I declared war on stink bugs

  • @RedDragonX32
    @RedDragonX32 Před 10 lety +15

    omg i was freaking out when he had them all in his hand.. like its raisins!! x.x~

  • @LB-jw3ly
    @LB-jw3ly Před 8 lety +57

    We can't even make stinkbugs in America anymore. We had to import them from China. lol

    • @jilliansmith7123
      @jilliansmith7123 Před 5 lety +3

      Luke Borom: I hear they're from Egypt. They look kind of Egyptian, don't they? Like scarabs or dung beetles?

  • @sabrina21clark
    @sabrina21clark Před 13 lety +5

    I love it...finally a sollution! Will tell all my friends and ask them to send pics of their traps! This is the best thing since the clapper!

  • @bizjenn1
    @bizjenn1 Před 12 lety +14

    My 3rd grade class just made these for one of their final projects. Super easy! Several teachers will be testing out these traps as will our maintenance crew at our school. Excellent idea!

  • @johnw5584
    @johnw5584 Před 3 lety +35

    How about a minor improvement to even prevent them from climbing back up: rather than placing the light in the bottom of the Pepsi container, you place it UNDER the container.
    Then you can put some water in the container, with a few drops of detergent to break the surface tension, then when they fall in, they will drown.
    Similar to a wasp trap with the fluid on the bottom.

    • @teribuvala7669
      @teribuvala7669 Před 2 lety +5

      I had the same idea! Great minds must think alike!😉

    • @mickjager5974
      @mickjager5974 Před 2 lety

      I saw another trap that was supposedly tested by Va Tech. A pan of soapy water and a full spectrum light, eq, I saw was a CF, shining done on the water.

    • @charlenequinilty7252
      @charlenequinilty7252 Před rokem +2

      Wonder if this works for garden

  • @bioinformatics73
    @bioinformatics73 Před 10 lety +2

    It's 11 p.m. at night and a stink bug just started flying under a light in my living room. I didn't know what it was until my little dog found where it landed and I looked it up on Google. Just found your video. Thank you for sharing! Looks like there's some work to do in starting to reinforce seals around the outside my home and making a few traps to lay out at night. Oh, goodness!

  • @garyr.4193
    @garyr.4193 Před 8 lety +39

    i was watching this and i started to turn up my brightness but then he said they were attracted to light and i was like oh well then and i turned it down

  • @nambinhvu
    @nambinhvu Před 12 lety +6

    You need to make a version with an easy to remove light attatched to the bottom instead of inside the actual trap, that you can plug in, so you won't have to worry about changing batteries and stuff, then you can also add some soapy water to the inside of the trap, so whatever bugs fall into it won't even be able to climb up the walls because it'll be all slippery. Probably would be less stinky too :P

  • @patriciaquinn7591
    @patriciaquinn7591 Před 11 lety +8

    Thank you so much for an affordable trap!

  • @maryinthemaking7211
    @maryinthemaking7211 Před rokem +2

    Thank you so much for such a thorough demonstration. I’m looking forward to trying it out. 👍

  • @charlenelaguer7072
    @charlenelaguer7072 Před 2 lety

    What an amazing contraption!!! Thanks so much! These stink bugs are everywhere! LOL

  • @SimonSozzi7258
    @SimonSozzi7258 Před 5 lety +4

    8:00 You gotta wait til he starts calling them "terrorists! 😂

  • @shaynak745
    @shaynak745 Před 6 lety +5

    This is an excellent trap for these pesty stink bugs!! Here in NY in February, we still see them on a daily basis! The worst is when they get in the bed! 😩😵 They may be harmless but they are scary looking enough that my children and I prefer to remove them. Thanks for sharing this great tip!

  • @BlondShellShock
    @BlondShellShock Před 2 lety +2

    I appreciate three things from watching this video:
    1. Seriously, how is this not on Shark Tank?
    2: Almost PC way of telling people to suffocate them stank bugs to death.
    3. "terrorists" is the only word for these bugs.

  • @ashleybencook
    @ashleybencook Před 2 lety +1

    Thanks for the idea!!! Had one fly in my face while falling asleep last night & I am DONE!

  • @cassie5800
    @cassie5800 Před 10 lety +45

    Just ran out to get the light. Found at the Dollar Tree for $1.00 each and they had an eight pack of batteries for $1.00. I will be trying it with these. It may work as well as the 6.00 light you mentioned. I hope so.

    • @jilliansmith7123
      @jilliansmith7123 Před 5 lety +4

      Michael Hall: how did it work? I'm going to dollar Tree for the lights, too. ,

    • @MKD-dd6ng
      @MKD-dd6ng Před 4 lety +9

      The bugs must have won....😂😂

  • @quiksillvr2
    @quiksillvr2 Před 13 lety +6

    So I made kind of the same thing today. Except, I powered it with LEDs powered by a solar charger. I also used the bottom of another Pepsi bottle inverted to house the lighting so I didnt have to mix lighting and stink bugs, now they will be easy to dispose of. Wrapped it with tape of course. For the ladder I used mesh tape for drywall, they should easily be able to climb up there. Also lined the inside of the bottle with clear insecticide. Made this all with leftover stuff in my garage.

  • @arkhamasylum8972
    @arkhamasylum8972 Před 2 lety +2

    10:42 that aged very well. Even 10 years later.

  • @Barney83
    @Barney83 Před 13 lety

    I'm watching your segment on NBC News 4 right now - good job!

  • @veronicasellars19
    @veronicasellars19 Před 7 lety +27

    I hate these stink bugs! I really hate them when they fly!

  • @cuvarsnova
    @cuvarsnova Před 5 lety +3

    First thank you. I was thinking about the upgrade. If you take another bottle and cut it in two places to be just a roller. You add this roller from the bottom and you pierce for cord and wrap with the tape you can use the charger power in to put a pair of LEDs and an LED diode resistor. Then water can be placed in the bottom of the upper bottle. I wish you a nice day :)~

  • @janajayj1965
    @janajayj1965 Před 6 lety

    Thank you SO MUCH!! Making my lil trap right now....cant wait to see it in motion. Cool!

  • @11antoniacourt
    @11antoniacourt Před 8 lety

    Thank you for this. It is mid-march and they're coming again!

  • @cicci565
    @cicci565 Před 11 lety +4

    Thanks. We have a serious problem, and this has worked as advertised. Excellent trap.

  • @MetroplexPrime2009
    @MetroplexPrime2009 Před 10 lety +23

    just a sugestion for your idea use a double bottom on the bottle that slides onto the trap bottle to hold the light so it is removeable for battery replacement and to keep it clean i use a similar stile trap for japanese beetles a pile of them will stink horribly till you empty it

    • @bratan007
      @bratan007 Před 9 lety

      MetroplexPrime2009 That's genius!!!

    • @HollyLuYa94
      @HollyLuYa94 Před 2 měsíci

      That's a genius idea! 👏🏼 Thank you for that! My biggest issue has been dealing with the light and not wanting to stick my hand or anything down inside to turn it on or off.

  • @rdudleston
    @rdudleston Před 10 lety

    I admire your business man. You're an awesome dad I bet!

  • @TheSawmillGuy
    @TheSawmillGuy Před 9 lety +1

    Great video on how to build a cheap Stink Bug Trap. Those pesky things have been around my property all year. Since winter is coming on, I know they will increasing want to come inside. He states that a good place to locate is in the attic. I'm also experimenting with yellow jacket traps.

  • @jeffhenderson1735
    @jeffhenderson1735 Před 8 lety +112

    Holy shit. This video should've taken four minutes....max! Sheeeesh

    • @Sevalecan
      @Sevalecan Před 5 lety +9

      I skipped through a lot of it. Lots of babbling. It's becoming a serious problem on CZcams as more and more people make content.

    • @lilnic804
      @lilnic804 Před 5 lety +1

      @@Sevalecan this vid is from 2011 bro before all dat monetization

    • @jasonrowe3847
      @jasonrowe3847 Před 5 lety

      Good grief, yes! Aaaagh!!!

    • @kashyyyk7331
      @kashyyyk7331 Před 5 lety +2

      It's a good video and you have the ability to skip through the extra commentary. Don't be a dick

    • @Chaimelo
      @Chaimelo Před 4 lety

      @Doctor Kikestein are you okay.. please see a doctor

  • @mackramer1
    @mackramer1 Před 10 lety +3

    Disposal tip. After collecting a bunch of bugs, we stick the whole trap in the freezer for about 30 mins. This kills the bugs, or slows them do enough to easily empty into the toilet. This saved us from making new traps after throwing the bug filled traps away and from a melee of not dead bugs flying free in the bathroom when we tried to empty.

  • @roadster45
    @roadster45 Před 13 lety +1

    GREAT idea, and thank you for sharing it, I'm from Pittsburgh also, and these bugs are out of control !

  • @lc586
    @lc586 Před 10 lety +1

    You need to get a grant from Pepsi for all the free endorsements!!! Love your ingenuity!!!

  • @susanwedell7627
    @susanwedell7627 Před 4 lety +10

    I just came back from the future to let you know, we still have stink bugs !!! but your invention is keeping them at bay. No Im from the year 2019 and they are invading us still..... LOL by the way I love how you said they get there friends to help them out..... LOL

  • @carlosmatos9848
    @carlosmatos9848 Před 6 lety +58

    Best stink bug trap ever is a cellar spider's web. I've got one living in the corner and that thing drops stink bugs like a boss.

    • @jamiehart6318
      @jamiehart6318 Před 6 lety +2

      I have thousands of stinkbugs, I would need at least hundreds of cellar spiders...

    • @titanuranus
      @titanuranus Před 6 lety +9

      Spiders are our friends. Except for those damn fiddlebacks (what yankees call a brown recluse). Fiddlebacks must die, the rest of them I leave to their calling.

    • @teribuvala7669
      @teribuvala7669 Před 2 lety

      But that means you have to have spiders in the house😲😬!!! No thank you! I'd rather have a trap🍾 than a spider🕷!👀

  • @bobbauldock3846
    @bobbauldock3846 Před 2 lety

    Thanks, man you hit a grand slam, I will never forget, youre a good guy.

  • @michaeladwyer705
    @michaeladwyer705 Před 10 lety +2

    Great video! Thanks for sharing this with us!

  • @5urg3x
    @5urg3x Před 8 lety +18

    I like these traps -- I have a few of them made. I made some minor changes with mine though -- I put water in the bottom of the bottle, along with dish soap. When they go down the funnel they hit the soapy water and die in about 5 minutes or so. It works very well at killing them, and it's safe. I put the light underneath the bottle and have the bottle rest on top of the light, so it still makes them want to fly inside. You don't have to use the soapy water though -- another good way to kill them is to put the entire trap in the freezer (once it's full...obviously!); they will be frozen & killed or slowed down enough to stop moving entirely in about 1-2 hours or so. Then dump and flush or dump them outside in a compost. Also -- these traps work very well when used "manually" as well, without the light. If you see a bug on the wall / window / ceiling, take the trap in your hands and try to get it around the bug and knock it down into the funnel. Once it's in there, it will not be able to get out. Works better than crushing them, most of the time they won't release the stink smell, but sometimes they will anyway, as just disturbing them can cause them to release it automatically -- they don't have to be crushed / killed instantly for them to release the stink...but most of the time I've found that using the funnel manually on a live one won't cause it to release the stink.

    • @MojoSpoonful
      @MojoSpoonful Před 8 lety +2

      +surgeyX Nice! I had the same idea, I was thinking of somehow putting the light underneath the OUTSIDE of the trap, so that I could turn it on and off easier between night and day. I imagine these traps really work the best at night, but not really during the day, right? I plan to make a bunch and I don't want to have to disassemble each one every morning to shut off the light. With the light on the outside, the soapy water is another good idea. I couldn't find these lights at the local Home Depot (Lowe's had them though), so researched the suggested light on Amazon and it seems that the current version shuts off automatically after 30 minutes. No good! So I found these and will try them:
      www.amazon.com/Fulcrum-30010-301-Battery-Operated-Stick-On-Silver/dp/B000R7PM36/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top?ie=UTF8
      or maybe these:
      www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00K7J06P8/ref=pd_luc_rh_sbs_01_03_t_img_lh?ie=UTF8&psc=1
      I'm thinking I can create some kind of base for the trap. Maybe a cardboard strip a little deeper than the light, to tape around the bottom of the bottle so I can tape the light to the outside bottom of the bottle and the trap won't have to balance on the light. In fact, using this method, I wouldn't even have to tape the light to the bottle. Then I can easily set the traps when it gets dark by turning them on and in the morning, I'll just shut the lights off to save batteries.
      My house is infested with these damned bugs and now I also have an army of ladybugs in here too! They also seem to go for the lights, so I think these will make great dual stink bug/ladybug traps!
      Any other mods or improvements?
      Thanks and a big up to you in the 'Burgh. Great idea.

    • @5urg3x
      @5urg3x Před 8 lety +2

      +MojoSpoonful
      Yeah those are the same kind of lights I use (the first link) -- just make sure to get rechargeable AA batteries for it, as it will eat through standard batteries that can't be recharged in no time. Yeah that's pretty much how I do it, put cardboard or some kind of material to block the light on the side so they want to go to the top of the bottle, and the light only shines through the bottle. I live in Buffalo, kind of close -- they were here all summer, but as it's getting colder now, they seemed to have died down quite a bit...hopefully they're not resting in dim corners of my house / basement / attic and want to come out when it snows and I have the heat turned on, lol.

    • @quinkath6064
      @quinkath6064 Před 3 lety +2

      @@MojoSpoonful you dont want to kill lady bugs...no no...they are great natural remedy for a lot of other bugs incl stink bugs..

  • @Ebolter1
    @Ebolter1 Před 4 lety +14

    a spray bottle with a 1/4 of it filled with Dawn dish soap, and the rest with water , kills them instantly , same for box alder bugs

  • @MoJingly
    @MoJingly Před 10 lety

    You have a good sense of humor :)

  • @nktwrk73
    @nktwrk73 Před 4 lety

    Trust me, once you see a camelback cricket in your basement climbing on walls and jumping 20ft in the air, you will start having coffee and tea with stinkbugs.

  • @lucyfoster4082
    @lucyfoster4082 Před 10 lety +3

    Thank you thank you!! Question--another guy said you could tape the light to the bottom on the outside..what do you think?

  • @dbsheetz
    @dbsheetz Před 13 lety +3

    Great Idea, but they want more heat than the LED can provide. So I built the trap just like you described only I modified the bottom with a small candle bulb wired into the bottom. Puts off the heat they are looking for and seems to be working better than the LED. Im going to modify it again with a "Roof" of sorts and a mirror to reflect the light back inside to prevent them from going to the ceiling and looking down inside which seems to happen 50% of the time. -Thanks for the Great idea!

  • @kathleenpecora4619
    @kathleenpecora4619 Před 2 lety +1

    I am a (now retired) high school principal and used to have these bugs drop out of my fluorescent overhead light onto my desk. Never had a teenager make me scream like these bugs did.

  • @LisaB_12204
    @LisaB_12204 Před 5 lety

    Will make this today after my morning class...thank you!

  • @lewishosier2677
    @lewishosier2677 Před 6 lety +11

    Get the cheap Hydrogen Peroxide sprayers at Walmart. Dump the H2O2 and refill with 90% Isopropyl Alcohol. A squirt or two does them in in about 2 minutes. Instantly blinds them so they don't fly. I doesn't stain anything and evaporates quickly. They either don't squirt or the stuff neutralizes the smell. much better than squashing. It's actually fun, got a sprayer in almost every room.

    • @VivIloVeith
      @VivIloVeith Před 4 lety

      Nugget The Beagle He said he dumped out the hydrogen peroxide and was just using the alcohol. However, be careful about how much isopropyl alcohol you breath in! The fumes are not good for you.

    • @quinkath6064
      @quinkath6064 Před 3 lety

      Why would you dump perfectly good Hydrogen Peroxide? Why not just buy a spray bottle!!!

  • @ThePodpie
    @ThePodpie Před 8 lety +16

    i fucking hate these bugs

  • @nitewind103
    @nitewind103 Před 9 lety

    Brilliant idea, My area is polluted with stink bugs, yuk!! Gonna try this for sure. Thanks so much!

  • @jtarr340
    @jtarr340 Před 11 lety +1

    Thank you for sharing. You're a gentleman and a scholar.

  • @Barfchode
    @Barfchode Před 8 lety +33

    The dislikers are stink-bugs

    • @FrankZen
      @FrankZen Před 8 lety

      +They're All Trolls They're all trolls!

  • @essemsween818
    @essemsween818 Před 5 lety +4

    I'm sure you've made modifications since this video, but how about seating the light inside a cardboard collar underneath the bottle a) it keeps the light shaded so they don't congregate underneath either the collar or the shaded taped area b) it allows you to turn out the light easily but mainly it allows you to drown the little buggers in the bottle, so ensuring they die quickly rather than slowly suffocating slowly,. Though I don't want to live with bugs I also don't want to torture them.

    • @lancomedic
      @lancomedic Před 2 lety +1

      Yes, also it keeps you from having to touch the bugs to get the light out. Only thing is you have to shield the sides of the light so they just don't hang around outside the bottle.

  • @ShyMplsMale
    @ShyMplsMale Před rokem

    I can just imagine if he received like a 1,000 orders for this trap...
    "Honey! We need to drink a ton of Pepsi!"

  • @CinSigns
    @CinSigns Před 13 lety +1

    Awesome! I can't wait to try it. It's a great idea and we are recycling too.

  • @anonforuz
    @anonforuz Před 10 lety +8

    nice trap, easy to take apart, throw the bugs outside.
    i do like the cute little bug ladders.

  • @DirkRJ
    @DirkRJ Před 7 lety +8

    So you are saying that the stink bugs cannot climb the plastic unless there is the masking tape so why did you explain that the stink bugs ( once inside ) will climb the inside of the trap ( without tape )?

    • @camdowell9406
      @camdowell9406 Před 7 lety +1

      they can fly

    • @bootnreboot7456
      @bootnreboot7456 Před 7 lety +6

      he added the tape down the sides just to make it easier for them to climb up to the top, plus you need a way to secure the funnel part.

  • @rimshot2952
    @rimshot2952 Před 2 lety

    Up to our knees in stink buy in Tennessee. Thanks for posting

  • @AyakoAki
    @AyakoAki Před 13 lety

    AT LAST!! A stink bug catcher within my budget!

  • @no-cm3ji
    @no-cm3ji Před 8 lety +99

    This is great, but wow, this didn't need to be 11 minutes long lol.

    • @jungojerry1658
      @jungojerry1658 Před 6 lety

      Agree - coulda told the whole story in 2 mins or less. I just fast forwarded to the end to see the finished product. Got it.

    • @brianstevenson4432
      @brianstevenson4432 Před 5 lety

      Zoey Stretcher will you be my girlfriend

    • @GalopaWXY
      @GalopaWXY Před 4 lety

      Yeah omg I was expecting to at least see the trap in action with such lenghty time xDD

    • @Julzsavedandsetapart
      @Julzsavedandsetapart Před 4 lety +2

      I could not watch it. He drones on and on.
      I'll wikihow it now.

  • @amandasolimar
    @amandasolimar Před 10 lety +3

    Voice reminds me of Billy Bob Thornton.

  • @gracie2375
    @gracie2375 Před rokem

    That’s great, very ingenious- thank you 🙏

  • @chrishynes6091
    @chrishynes6091 Před 2 lety

    Going to try this. Also I checked out your business ( I'm south of Pittsburgh ). If I run into some photos that need restoration I'll remember to look you guys up!

  • @JefferyHallett
    @JefferyHallett Před 6 lety +4

    A very informative 4-minute video that somehow lasted 11.38 minutes.

  • @kitsurubami
    @kitsurubami Před 9 lety +5

    instead of flushing them down the toilet, throw them on the dirt or if you have a compost pile, there :)

  • @kfrr
    @kfrr Před 11 lety

    You have no idea what I picture every time you say something about stinkbugs watching the show.

  • @brendahodgins
    @brendahodgins Před 11 lety

    Nice video. You certainly have done your research and I hope I remember that if the darn things are ever a problem - again!

  • @cynicalcindy1434
    @cynicalcindy1434 Před 5 lety +13

    I just pulled jeans out of my dresser and about 6 fell out on the floor. Shook them, a few more fell out. Put them on, still had some on the inside! Freaked, pulled a fresh pair, more stinkbugs. WTF!!! I just did laundry 2 days ago and they all seem to be getting into my dresser and clothes!!!! Losing my mind, hate these things! If they like light, wth are they all in the top drawer of my dresser?! My place is tiny and I keep it very clean because it's the size of a shoebox and gets cluttered easily. I'm bleaching floors, walls, dresser (inside & out), window sills, they keep leaving their smell everywhere. I wanna puke. One landed in my coffee yesterday and I ended up tasting the smell. PLEASE HELP! WW3 between my place and asian stinkbugs has begun! Im losing the battle, wanna win the war!

    • @lacebird76
      @lacebird76 Před 5 lety +1

      Happy Gilmore I tape my windows closed from September until November!! They leave a trail so once one gets in the rest will follow. Have sprayed them with Clorox Bathroom cleaner and they STILL LIVE!!! Just gotta be vigilant and kill every single one you see. Good luck

    • @R8TD-M
      @R8TD-M Před 4 lety

      I never knew anything about stink bugs until we moved into our home going on 4 years ago. They are a pain in the @$$, but as stated kill each one you see. I need some type of preventive measures now though 🤔!

  • @luigi16852
    @luigi16852 Před 7 lety +19

    You guys are talking about finding 7, there are over 200 in my room

    • @Pekodes
      @Pekodes Před 7 lety +7

      How are you not hospitalized right now

    • @luigi16852
      @luigi16852 Před 7 lety +3

      didn't sleep in there for several days

    • @roburz62
      @roburz62 Před 7 lety +2

      We have thousands of them covering the ceiling of our house. Ick

    • @1738gabe
      @1738gabe Před 6 lety

      Me and my mom vacuumed up 147 of them in 2 hours they are back... They nest in dark crowded places say storage rooms.

    • @loridennis2989
      @loridennis2989 Před 5 lety +1

      @@1738gabe Did you actually count them? 🤣

  • @JustinAbraham412
    @JustinAbraham412 Před 13 lety

    Thanks, this is very helpful. I saw you in the new paper.

  • @RichardWertzIsGreat
    @RichardWertzIsGreat Před 13 lety

    You, sir, are a genius!!

  • @chapzer6686
    @chapzer6686 Před 7 lety +6

    these things always end up in my bed when i watch youtube at night.... its just nasty

  • @amayamize2324
    @amayamize2324 Před 7 lety +3

    There is one crawling on the wall right now

  • @tammyisenblatter9138
    @tammyisenblatter9138 Před 2 lety

    Thank you SO MUCH for this informative video! I can't wait to try it! God bless!

  • @mkmkmo
    @mkmkmo Před 13 lety

    Wonderful idea! Brilliant minds and great athletes come from Pittsburgh!!!

  • @bobbybassbanger
    @bobbybassbanger Před 8 lety +10

    I don't think flushing them down the toilet is a very good idea, as an ex sewer inspector I can see how that could cause line plugging.

    • @johninmilford7719
      @johninmilford7719 Před 5 lety +6

      You gotta be sh*ttin' me...(toilet humor) How a handful of bugs will clog a sewer line? No idea on that one. (Been in the 'fixit' biz for over 40 years and never saw such a thing.)

  • @jacobn8912
    @jacobn8912 Před 5 lety +3

    The vacuum is the best stink bug trap. Change my mind

    • @teribuvala7669
      @teribuvala7669 Před 2 lety

      Oh no! I've accidentally sucked up stink bugs, and when they get agitated in the collection bin, they send their stink out through the exhaust vent! Stinks up the whole room!

  • @never1942works
    @never1942works Před 10 lety

    Thank you so much for this !

  • @BBQDad463
    @BBQDad463 Před rokem

    Thank you for this video. Looks like a great idea!