Stand it up. The bugs crawl up the sides and fall in. Something I left off, put tape around the bottom so that they will go up to the top instead of trying to get through the sides, they want to go to the light. I put some sticks that they could climb to the top in case it was too slick. Last nights bug harvest was great! I had so many I couldn't even guesstimate how many there were!

This may sound a little silly. I bought a butterfly net at the dollar store. I am going to use it to catch them. They are pretty fast, but I'm sure I can get them with the net. I hate to see them on my vegetables.

Last year I saw a few BMSB's in our garden here in east central Kansas. I hand picked and killed all that I saw, taking advantage of their reflex to drop when disturbed. In many instances I could disturb them with one hand and catch them as they fell in the other hand. If I missed catching the bug I could usually find it on the ground and get it. I got stinky hands that way, but soap is cheap. The farmers around us were growing soybeans last year and they plan on planting corn this year, so we are prime territory for a stink bug invasion. But so far, it hasn't happened. We had no indoor stink bugs last Fall and only token amounts in our garden. I'm sure that eventually they will become a problem here, but so far they are a minor annoyance, along with a few other species of stink bugs, like the green ones that seem to take a liking to my tomatoes. I hand picked a bunch of them, too, but you have to be more careful with them. They have a couple of sharp "thorns" on their thorax that can prick you if you aren't careful. I would purchase and install an electronic bug zapper here to kill a lot of night flying moths and such, except that we have a lot of beneficial lacewing flies that would be wiped out if I did that. I see a lot of the lacewing flies on our windows during their season, so they are strongly attracted to light (and unfortunately, mosquitoes aren't). Since your traps use light as the attractant, I probably wouldn't buy an outdoor version of it because of the tradeoff between lacewings and whatever is trapped. With corn and soybeans being grown extensively in our rural area, I don't look forward to a population build-up of BMSB's here. When that happens, and it probably will, there will probably be tons of BMSB's withing flying distance of our garden. Hopefully the farmers' corn and soybeans will act as decoy crops. Although I will be attempting to grow some sweetcorn of my own. ZM

Looking for stink bug traps leads one to some fascinating information about these critters. One reason pheromone attractants don't really work very well is that though they're produced by males to attract females, this alone isn't enough to lure a stinkbug into a trap. They also need a vibrational song that is then transmitted through the plant tissue to help the stinkbugs find each other! How strange nature is. PDF report on Red-Shouldered Stink Bugs, and this excerpt: Substrate-borne vibrational signals. It has been known for some time that stink bugs produce substrate-borne vibrational signals for communication at short range... These signals are generated with a tymbal organ that stretches across the dorsal surface under the elytra. The vibrations are transmitted into the plant stem through the insectÂs legs, and are propagated along the plant as bending waves. The signals are detected by vibration sensors in the legs of the receiving insect. Both males and females appear to produce several different vibrational songs. To locate each other once on the same plant, males and females produce a duet of calling songs, with one or both insects following the signals to their sources. Once at close range or having contacted each other, the insects may begin producing courtship songs. There is virtually no airborne sound associated with these signals, and their primary transmission medium is clearly the plant substrate. Because these signals are transmitted through the plant, they may be less prone to eavesdropping by parasitoids and predators than a more widely dispersed airborne acoustic signal. Insects may be attracted to the vicinity of a trap by the pheromone, but if the shorter-range vibrational signals are not present, the insects may not move into the trap towards the pheromone source. This may explain observations by several researchers of bugs clustered in the vicinity of pheromone traps, but with few bugs actually in the traps...