Punch it. It's a it's a very
it's a very odd, strong smell.
The little stinkers are back.
Yes, I'm talking about stink bugs,
and experts say they're everywhere.
I spoke with Mcneely's pest
control to find out how to
keep him out at your house.
The fall season brings changing leaves,
cooler weather and the return of stink bugs.
Jordan Myers is the district manager
of Mcneely Pest control in Greensboro.
He says his company has been busy
treating homes for these fall invaders.
Starts cooling down the plant,
start kind of dying. You know,
the frost hits home or something.
You know, they,
they fly from those plants,
try to seek shelter for the winter
so they'll get in the house,
get under leaf litter.
Pine tree bark,
places like that to just kind of
hunker down for the for the cold winter,
and they want it warms
back up in the spring.
They come out
once inside the home,
Meyer says there's not much
the professionals can do,
but taking preventative measures
can save you the headache.
That includes removing extra
foliage around the house,
sealing cracks between
windows and doorways,
and keeping outdoor lighting to a minimum.
And if you've had them before,
right now is the time to treat.
Before they, they come back in.
And that's usually the the biggest thing.
People, people that live
in the same place for,
you know, a couple of years,
they kind of expect them.
They see them and they know,
they know that they're going to
have an issue in the fall, Meyer
says. These critters pose no
real danger other than just
being a really smelly nuisance
once they're in the house, you know,
the only way to really get rid of them is,
you know, physically removing them.
You know, just grab a tissue or something,
a napkin to pick them up and take them,
take them out. Flushing down the toilet.
You know, some people, just like I said,
suck them up with the vacuum.
And when it starts to get colder,
Myers says rodents like mice and rats,
they're also going to be looking
for a warm place. Ohh no.
So you can take these same
preventative measures to keep
those out the house as well.
Gosh, if you know anything about
me I don't mess with throat.
I'm messing with my any point any kind.
Not my, not my thing.
We had a mouse in our attic
found five or six years ago and
we bought one of the traps that
catches it so you can take it out.
So I took it out to release it out
in the two lane Rd and I opened
it up real quick as I know he
bounded out of that thing and.
Across the road took off.
Ohh, he's ready to go.
I remember the first time we
did have a mouse in the House.
I was about two or three years
old so I couldn't spell yet.
My mom was like,
we have the MOUSC in there.
So what are you saying tell going on?
It's like the Mickey Mouse
and I see. Can't you? I yeah.
There you go. Well, yeah.
Those. That's really interesting
about the stink bugs.
And like, they're not gonna. Yeah.
They're not gonna do anything.
They aren't really fun to look at.
But it's like an
invasion, though. Like just the
number of them is surprising.
And we got a little bubble
right here. Yeah. Sometimes
in the year you have these
ladybug invasions, too.
People see them always.
You just come inside.
We get them in our laundry room every year.
There's like 30 of them.
And then eventually. It's funny.
We just shut the door and
eventually they just die.
You can't.
There's nothing you can
do. They just become very
annoying, if anything. Yeah,
so besides the bugs, there's
a lot of stuff about fall
some people don't like.
I know it's a favorite season
for many, but I asked you
on my Facebook page, what
don't you like about fall?
So Renee King says it gets dark
too early. Rebecca Class says
the winter is around the corner.
Don't like the cold weather.
Steve Bailey raking leaves. But love fall.
Mary Keebler says allergies.
And then Kayla Thompson wrote pumpkin spice.
I like the pumpkins. That's a hot page.
I'm sure a lot of people might
actually agree with it. Yeah, they're
just tired of hearing about it.
It's not that they don't like it,
right? Right. Yes. I have always
said that I think the
Starbucks holiday drinks,
like Christmas time drinks,
are much better than the
pumpkin spice ones. I do too.
And I feel like they have better like.
So I'm not a big part.
I like it, but I'm not like,
as excited about it as everybody else is.
I agree with the days getting too short.
That's, you know, it's it's tricky because,
you know, living where we do in this
part of the country, I think this,
for me this summer is too hot. OK.
But I love spring and I love fall
because they're kind of in between.
It's cozy to be outdoors, but I don't
like that it gets dark so early now.
So to me that's a little depressing.
And growing up, way up in New York State,
as I did that time of year,
I thought, Oh no, we're getting
into like the dark and cold season.
I don't really dread the winter
here like I did back then,
but I still have that feeling
of, you know, a little bit of dread.
Yeah, well, I love falling.
It is my favorite season.
I like the fashion, I like the boots,
I like the sweater.
So if I did have to pick something,
it would have to be the shorter
days because I don't like getting
off around 5:30 and it feeling
like it's 9:00 o'clock at night.
I feel like I need to go
straight to sleep when I get off.
But on the flip side of that,
if you know,
I wanna go for a walk or something
in the morning there is sunlight. So
now when I used to work the morning shift,
I love when the time change and
fall back and you get that extra,
you know, love that. But I would say,
yeah, short days number one,
but fall is probably my.
Favorite time of the year?
Because football love it.
And then to know that the
holidays are around the corner?
Yeah, I completely agree.