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BajaGeoff
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Swarming Stinkbugs
Has anyone in northern Baja seen a sudden increase in stinkbugs in the last few days? I stayed near La Mision on Sunday/Monday and they were swarming
everywhere! They emit a smell that is reminiscent of mothballs. At one point the wind switched direction and thousands of them were blowing towards
the beach...probably trying to return to land after getting blown out to sea by the strong offshore flow. I have never seen anything like it, and
there are no signs of them here in San Diego.
This is what the little stinkers look like:
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Taco de Baja
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I have seen a bunch in the Laguna Beach area the last 2 week ends, all crawling, or mating. I also saw a few flying near the San Diego Natural
History Museum in Balboa Park on Saturday...I never knew the little stinkers could even fly......
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Woooosh
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Flying Stinkbugs
I didn't know they were stinkbugs and thought they were jumping around until I saw one fly. I must have picked a hundred out of my pool. I hope
they're good eating for the larger birds- becuase they are everywhere in Rosarito (The ones that aren't smushed to my winds shield that is). I think
the hot, dry weather fooled a lot of bugs to hatch early the past few days- from Dragonflies to ladybugs.
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BajaGeoff
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If they taste half as bad as they smell, I doubt many birds will be eating them. But then again, I have never seen a seagull with a discriminating
palate. 
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Paulina
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I've been reading about their invasion on the Punta Banda board. I hope the gap under our front door is stink bug proof, or I'll be doing a lot of
clean up this summer.
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ps. I like the smell of mothballs...
\"Well behaved women rarely make history.\" Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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bajamigo
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A few folks around here (Punta Banda) reported sweeping literally hundreds out of their houses. Is this some kind of 17-year plague?
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Hook
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Has anyone noticed the immense hatches of small, very determined and resilient flies that have invaded the coastal areas of south OC ( at least) this
year? They are smaller than house flies but larger than gnats.
Took a cruise in the Jeep from Clemente to Newport on this past warm Sunday. At the first stoplight,we were inundated. Got moving and these buggers
resisted swats, shoo-ing and the effects of wind at 50mph; they could cling to even gelcoat. Eventually THOUGHT we had rid ourselves of them but they
were at every stop. Noticed that ALL the cars around us had them clinging.
Soon after, discovered they BITE, too. Never seen anything like this hatch in all my years down here.
I'm phoning Al Gore to get an answer to their proliferation.............
[Edited on 4-29-2008 by Hook]
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sylens
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stinkbugs and clingy flies
both of 'm here on the beach in ensenada. not so much at our house a couple of blocks back, but then 2 cats help keep the pests down
lili
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Hook
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Come to think of it, they were about the size of "kelp" flies.
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Skipjack Joe
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Maybe it's my nose or something but I just can't smell them. I've gotten down on all fours and tried, but .... nothing.
I like the picture, though. They're definitely part of the baja experience. Morro Santo Domingo just wouldn't be the same without adam trees and sting
bugs.
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Hook
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Are they clown beetles or darkling beetles? I cant tell, but they seem more similar to darklings.
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Skipjack Joe
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Time to get a toupee
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DENNIS
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They're everywhere. They're canibals, eating each other.
We're going to have to get some advice from the Mormons. How did they get rid of the locusts.
Gull....Can you help us here?
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Gypsy Jan
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They Bite, Too
There have been a few in the house. I was mystified as to how they got in, but since they fly, I'll bet the recent winds blew them in when the door
was open.
I picked one up with bare hands and on the way to disposal the bug(ger) unleashed his stink and bit me on the finger.
I guess that's why God invented shoes.
So far as I know, the cats and dogs show no interest in eating them - maybe they tried and got discouraged.
If I catch another, I'll give it to the parrot (all in the interests of scientific investigation, of course  ).
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Gypsy Jan
I guess that's why God invented shoes.
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vandenberg
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
They're canibals, eating each other.
We're going to have to get some advice from the Mormons.
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Didn't know Mormons were cannibals 
Or , maybe, you have them mixed up with our Donner party.
And they didn't eat their young in Texas.
[Edited on 4-29-2008 by vandenberg]
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Lindalou
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
They're everywhere. They're canibals, eating each other.
We're going to have to get some advice from the Mormons. How did they get rid of the locusts.
Gull....Can you help us here? |
We lived in Elko (12 miles outside) when they had the invasion of giant
grasshoppers. They were called Morman Crickets cause they came all the way from SLC Utah. They were horrible! There were so many of them it made the
roads slick from running over them. Thank Gosh they never made it to our house.
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bajabound2005
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The beetles, everyone is callng stinkbugs, but we've yet to smell anything (and we've got thousands of them around us!) I looked them up and they say
that stinkbugs don't fly (they do have wings but don't fly) and these guys FLY. The roads are covered with them, both dead and alive.
Friends don't let friends drink white zinfandel.
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BajaGeoff
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Well, these guys not only fly but also stink when agitated.
Stinkbeetles then?
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Frank
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We had them up to 6 miles offshore of San Diego yesterday while we were fishing. Tiny little wasps and bees were flying around also.
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