Stop Stink Bugs from Overwintering in Your Northern New Jersey Home
When you find them in your northern New Jersey home, your first impulse is to squash these ugly-looking bugs. That’s a mistake most people don’t make twice! Looking like some prehistoric creature, stink bugs are gray to brown with long spidery-looking legs and antennae. These insects have a knobby, shield-shaped back that has the appearance of armor plating. When stink bugs are squashed or disturbed, they release a powerful pheromone that has a nauseating sweet odor. It’s an effective defense mechanism that has left this insect with few natural predators.
Stink bugs live, feed and breed outdoors during the summer months, but they spend their winters harboring inside northern New Jersey homes and other heated buildings. These insects, along with other overwintering insects like box elder bugs and Asian lady bird beetles, hide in toasty wall voids until spring arrives. The first cool days of September send these insect pests scurrying indoors in large numbers where they can create a serious problem for northern New Jersey home and business owners.
To prevent stink bugs from invading your home or building, a preventive pesticide barrier must be laid down around building perimeters before stink bugs begin to enter buildings in mid-September. To prevent an invasion of overwintering pests, contact the expert northern New Jersey pest control professionals at Heritage Pest Control today.