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couple years ago we got invaded with stink bugs inside the house during the fall/winter dispatched 20-30 everyday.
last winter 2013/14 with the "polar vortex" it decimated the population the smart ones got in inside.
the rest froze to death boo woo . this winter we have had only a handful, hows everyone elses population doing?
 
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Never had any inside the house. Some in the garden back in 2011, but that was it. Haven't seen many since.
 
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On one of those days that we had a record high ..

. (there have been 4 such record high February afternoons) ..

. a fly or something was at the backdoor. I didn't let it come in.

Steve
 
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We have had a lot of those fake ladybugs that taste awful (ask me how I know) Is that what you mean? They are reddish brown instead of red. But not as many this year as in some past years.
 
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I had two show up in a recent warm spell, but the numbers overall have been way lower than about 5 years ago. I am hoping some pathogen caught up with them, because at that time they were awful!
 
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My BFF up the road has more than her share of Asian lady bird beetles and boxelder bugs walking the ceiling and walls this winter. Comes from having a 150 year old stone house, I suppose. My newer house hasn't had a single visitor from either family of arthropods.
 
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