Thursday, October 7, 2010

Stink Bugs Stink


Move over bedbugs, stop hogging all the covers....you have some competition. Stink bugs are in the HOUSE! Yo Yo

Luckily, I am not intimately or olfactory familiar with stink bugs, but I hear wherever they venture...their odor precedes and succeeds them. Pew...please pass a clothes pin.

Stink bugs are plant-eaters and especially like to gorge on a variety of fruit. They are mainly an agricultural pest, but as the temperature drops outdoors...stink bugs are looking to get indoors. They need a place to ride out the winter. May I suggest a nice comfortable condo in sunny Florida.

Stink bugs have settled in the Mid-Atlantic states…so they are not thinking about retiring any time soon. But I do hear they are thinking about “moving on up”...like George Jefferson...with a move into the White House. Their plan is to stink up the place...more than Obama’s plans are stinking. (Sorry, it was just ripe for that comment.)

Anywhoooooooo................

Fortunately, stink bugs are harmless to humans. They don’t bite...although they are highly irritating to the nose.

So what do stink bugs smell like? Stinky feet? Rotten cheese? Burnt rubber?...maybe a combination. If the odor is highly offensive...you can bet the stink bug has moved in with you.

So don’t go blaming that highly offensive smell on your husband’s dirty underwear in the corner. It could very well be the stink bug...going for the Fruit of the Loom variety.

Just so ya know...and even if you don’t want to……..stink bugs originated in China and arrived in the United States in the 1990’s. (Just another stinking product “Made in China.”)

1 comment:

jason said...

for me, I think stink bugs scents are unexplainable. all I can say is that they have a nasty scent.