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well ive got rid of the cabbage moths, caterpillars, the fruit flys, the aphids, the ants, the mozzies etc etc etc . .
but now im noticing stink bugs moving in to the AP system.
dos anyone know if they are good / bad / harmless?
how to get rid of them without killing fish?

cheers
ben

If they're not doing any hard, I wouldn't worry about them.

Even if they are doing some harm, I've not found a good way to get rid of them even in a soil garden where I could use toxic stuff!!!!! Stink Bugs, Leaf Footed Bugs and Squash Bugs are all sort of similar this way in that they are tough suckers and since they are suckers they tend not to get a good dose of much of anything.

In soil garden, Neem oil can upset their nymphs from maturing properly and therefore maybe have an effect on the next generation of them.

I've tried the knock them off into a bucket of water, the adults fly so that doesn't work so well and I don't usually manage to catch enough of the nymphs.

Grabbing the adults with the fingers and chucking them into the fish tank, if you can catch them (usually easiest while they are mating and the two stuck together at the buts are not as quick to take off) but then your fingers stink!!!!

At one point I actually resorted to using a battery powered dust buster to try and suck them up. I think I sucked up more leaves than I did bugs!

Finally I started ignoring them as I have with most other pests.

hah i get that problem too sometimes

hmm we get quite a few in the dirt garden (they seem to love jasmine) and found the same thing, cant kill the frikin things.

so i think ill just leave em be, perhaps some other bug will comealong and either eat them or outcompete them

Yeah, can happen. I was getting stressed a few weeks back by the number of aphids that were on my plants. I was considering getting some ladybugs by mail order (there's a link somehwere in the forum). However, I went to Adleaide for a week, and when I came back, the existing population of ladybirds had exploded due to the number of aphids. Now I can't even find an aphid !

yeh i got some sticky yellow traps. filled up 2 every 24hours for the fisrt 3 days, now back to a better level, and the ladybugs have started arriving

I have them all through my gardens...they don't appear to do any damage so I leave them be

hey freo - what sticky traps? I find that my tomatoes get hammered every year by green shield bugs, they suck the guts out of the small tomato fruit, and they rott

Joel and Faye sell 'em Col !

BYAP sell em, and B sells multiple packs I. The aisle with all the pesticides etc

roger, tyvm

tyvm

Aha! By jove I think I've got it ThankYou Very Much

Hey - doesn't get past you guys !!

Bug porn Faye??? No stink bug porn???????