Have you noticed more stink bugs around and in your house the past few weeks? You\u2019re not alone.<\/p>\n
After a summer enjoying the warm weather and feeding on crops and plants outside, the smelly insects are looking for warmer locations to survive the upcoming winter.<\/p>\n
Valerie Sesler with the Penn State Extension Program tells KDKA Radio, \u201cWe notice them more during this time because they leave their outdoor habitats and come into our warm homes through cracks and crevices, or gaps in siding, windows, and doors.\u201d<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re finding stink bugs or, more specifically, the brown marmorated stink bug, on your walls or ceiling, the good news is, their number should start to decrease.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe peak flight period for these insects as they move toward these overwintering locations typically occurs from late September through early October.\u201d said Sesler.<\/p>\n
As for another pest, the spotted lanternfly, Sesler says the population has been down this year and is \u201clikely due to natural population fluctuations that often occur after an area that has been infested for several years.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile it may seem like the population is disappearing, these insects frequently experience cycles where numbers peak and then decline, though they can rebound in subsequent seasons,\u201d added Sesler. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Have you noticed more stink bugs around and in your house the past few weeks? You\u2019re not alone.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[57199,51894,73,75,74,126436],"class_list":["post-308591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-insects","tag-penn-state-extension","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-stink-bug"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}