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Cake day: August 4th, 2023

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  • 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.