I don’t think I’ve ever smelled ones. I just pick them up in my hand and throw them outside. Are there some regional versions that don’t stink?
Shot in the dark but try vacuuming up bi carb soda.
Do it a couple of times.
See if you can vacuum up an odor neutralizing bug. It should work.
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Vacuum a bit of surströmming juice up and you won’t smell that bug anymore.
Username fuckin checks out
When I was a kid, my best friend and his siblings took in a “stray” cat and gave it some milk (because cats love milk in cartoons, right?). The cat proceeded to spray shit all over the house including on carpet. To clean it up before their parents got home and found out, they decided to use the vacuum cleaner.
The next time their mom went to use the vacuum it created an unholy stench that basically made the house unlivable for several days. 100 percent do not recommend.
Have you cleaned the filter and replaced the bag?
May help.
I read bag as bug and was like “where am I gonna find a replacement stink bug?”
Mine lived in the half bath upstairs.
I’ve had some stink bugs too, and it seems like most of the means the internet recommends for dealing with them suck in some way (only some of them literally like what you resorted to).
- Squashing is universally contraindicated.
- Sucking them up with a vacuum can make your vacuum stink.
- Putting a light on a bowl of soapy and/or vinegary water would work, but is kindof a messy pain to deal with.
- Pesticides are generally dangerous to humans.
- My preferred option – catch them gently and take them outside alive – runs the risk that they’ll just find their way inside again
But I guess I find that last option the least offensive.
There was one I dealt with differently, though. I dropped him into a spider web a spider had built over my kitchen sink. I like to think the spider was very appreciative.
I just wrap ‘em in a shit ticket and flush them.
My preferred option – catch them gently and take them outside alive – runs the risk that they’ll just find their way inside again
Just make sure they’re not the invasive ones. I keep my old pill bottles, so the invasive stink bugs get sealed in a bottle and go in the freezer to kill them quickly without stinking the place up. Native bugs get released tho.
Well damn. You’re right. The ones I’ve been releasing were all invasive ones. I didn’t think to check, but now I’ll have to revise my approach. Probably the freezer thing.
No worries, tons of people don’t know there’s invasive ones!
I considered setting my house afire after I found several within moments of each other. Alas, I yielded & still have a home. It was a nuclear option that fortunately, was narrowly avoided.
Extension cord. Sunny day. Let that shit run outside for 5 hours and see if you can blow it out?
5 h * 1 kW * 0.08 €/kWh = 0.40 €
Sounded like a terrible idea at first, but it’s not that expensive really.I did the same calculation trying to remove cockroach musk from a vacuum cleaner! (It didn’t work.)
isn’t cockroach smell one of those things that only some people can detect, or am i completely misremembering?
No surprise. Smells can stick around for a while. You could just replace the bag and then spray the inside of the vacuum with one of those odour removing sprays.
We had a bagless Dyson. We were cursed until we (moved out of the apartment complex infested with cockroaches and) upgraded to a Miele C1.
0.08€/kWh only on a really sunny day, otherwise more like 0.3€.
In that case it’s going to be about 1.5 € which still isn’t too expensive if it actually solves a problem. Anyway, leaving a vacuum running for hours is bad idea for different reasons.
Yes, I am marvelling at the 0.08€ and I’m wondering in what kind of electrical price paradise you’re living. Bit envious, honestly.
When posting, I had to get some number from somewhere. I just found some random electricity provider and used the site to figure out roughly what they’re promising. In reality, buying electricity is pretty complicated and the pricing is a total mess. When in doubt, multiply that value with pi and you should be pretty close to what you actually end up paying IRL.
If its a canister vac, pull that thing apart and clean it. Clean the head and filters. But that really sucks/blows, thats a bummer man.
