Stink Bug
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Stink bugs ruining tomatoes!?!?!
Hey everyone, I have had a lot of frustration with my tomatoes this year, and now the stink bugs have found them. I am not quite sure how to deal with this. Is there some insecticide or natural repellent that would be safe to spray directly on the plants and tomatoes or something? I picked off...
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Adult stink bugs are very difficult to even kill much less control. Pyrethrins work well as a contact spray and so does spinosad but kill is not immediate. The secret to controlling adults is to kill the babies or even better kill the eggs. If you grow cucurbits look on the underside of the leaves for the eggs. If the eggs have hatched there will be dozens of orange and gray looking insects that resemble aphids. These are easy to kill with spinosad. If they haven't hatched they are a brownish egg usually deposited in a geometric pattern. There can be as many as 100 eggs. I kill the eggs with the old tried and true thumb and forefinger method but Neem works great on the eggs as well. It doesn't work to spray the fruit with anything that I have found. The only method I have found that really works is to just walk around in the garden spraying them individually.