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09-27-2021, 01:38 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: Romeoville, IL
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Stink bugs!! Argh!
Enjoying some nice warm fall weather here in Northern Illinois, and my RV is swarmed by stink bugs!! I tried the natural solution (peppermint oil and some dawn) but they are persistent. They are in the doors, on the screens, in the awning arms, and probably in every vent by now.
Just venting. Can't go in or out of the RV without letting some in. Closed up the windows and put the A/C on lol. I know bugs are a part of nature, but these guys are getting to me.
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Todd & Nadeen :: FMCA F484487
2014 Tiffin Allegro RED 38QBA pushed by Tiny (2020 Nissan Versa)
2014 Thor Four Winds
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09-27-2021, 01:55 PM
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Registered User
Newmar Owners Club Ford Super Duty Owner Freightliner Owners Club Retired Fire Service RVer's
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: Rosemary Farm, Northern Ca
Posts: 5,444
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I got into a moth hatch once - not as nasty as stink bugs but we had hundreds of them inside and every day for a week or so more would surface.
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09-27-2021, 02:10 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2018
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I grab them in a half paper towel and toss them out the door as fast as possible. They are tree beetles here, they burrow under the slide rubbers. 3 or 4 a day were getting in for awhile. Seems the days I would have no heat or air on and not home all day they weren't attracted to come in. Noise , vibration, I don't know, but more prevelent when I was around. Down to freezing at night here so bug season is waining fast.
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09-27-2021, 02:18 PM
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Senior Member/RVM #90
Monaco Owners Club
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Columbus, MS
Posts: 54,788
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If you think they're bad there, try Virginia in October! 
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Joe & Annette
Sometimes I sits and thinks, sometimes I just sits.....
2002 Monaco Windsor 40PBT, 2013 Honda CRV AWD
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09-27-2021, 02:19 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: Romeoville, IL
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MSHappyCampers
If you think they're bad there, try Virginia in October! |
Thanks for the warning! Noted. 
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Todd & Nadeen :: FMCA F484487
2014 Tiffin Allegro RED 38QBA pushed by Tiny (2020 Nissan Versa)
2014 Thor Four Winds
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09-27-2021, 03:42 PM
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Location: DeLand, FL
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They were pretty bad in Ohio in October.
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09-27-2021, 05:12 PM
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Newmar Owners Club Retired Fire Service RVer's Spartan Chassis
Join Date: Apr 2018
Posts: 381
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They are a pain is East Tennessee!
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09-27-2021, 05:15 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2016
Posts: 8,604
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And northern South Carolina! We are flushing them down the toilet when we catch them inside.
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2014 40G Fleetwood Discovery
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09-27-2021, 05:18 PM
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"Formerly Diplomat Don"
Newmar Owners Club
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Moorpark, Ca.
Posts: 24,122
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Not only a pain, but a year or so later, they come crawling out of who knows where. We got some in our coach in North Carolina. A year later we would still find one walking around.
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2019 Newmar Dutch Star 4018 (Freightliner)
2019 Ford Raptor
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09-27-2021, 05:20 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 5,996
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They don't do anything for the chili! Numbs the tongue, sort of.
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09-27-2021, 05:35 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2017
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We in Indiana take ours to Illinois and let them loose . 
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09-28-2021, 05:39 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Upstate New York
Posts: 3,722
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Got 'em here in Upstate NY. Flushed two yesterday with probably more just waiting their turn in the next few weeks. I suspect that ours arrived after a mid October RV trip to Virginia a couple years ago since we didn't have them before. Just another gift from a Far East country we all know and ...
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Dave W
2011 Ford F250 6.7 Lariat CCLB, Gone but not forgotten
2014 Montana High Country 343RL (sold it!)
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09-28-2021, 06:58 AM
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Senior Member
Tiffin Owners Club
Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: McHenry, Illinois
Posts: 392
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Yep, they are in full force up here. I'm sure we will be taking some to Florida next month. That's ok, it will give the two cats something to do besides laying around the coach all day. Its time for them to earn their keep. 
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2015 Dodge Ram Laramie 4x4
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