New Traditional Cover Scent

[Stephen Graf]

#2449

So I was out shooting today and noticed a nasty scent I’m all too familiar with, stink bugs. Every time I came to anchor, I smelled it. Figured it was on the arrows, so I gave ’em all a stiff.

Nope.

Then I noticed that my middle finger felt a little different inside my shooting glove… One of those gawd-awfl bugs had made his home inside my shooting glove and I had turned him into a putrid paste as I shot.

The upside is that my glove in no way smells human any more.

So my free idea to whomever decides to show the initiative is to collect stink bugs (no problem, come on down south and harvest them from any and every window south of the mason dixon line and east of the Mississippi. You just have to pick the lady bugs out), squish ’em up and bottle them.

I suggest you put a camo pattern on the bottle. That’ll make it bona-fide.

[Col Mike]

#9517

Ha Ha tis the season. But they provide great entertainment when Lin is in her reading chair and one dive bombs the light and then right in her face:D. How do they get in? And our lady bugs are not ladies—they bite:shock:.

Aw the pleasures of living in the woods.:lol:

[David Petersen]

#9529

Mike, what other “purposed” chairs does Linda Lee have beyond reading? I’m sure she has a designated computing chair, aka desk chair. And maybe a Netflix-watching chair? A shopping for a boat chair (though I suspect that one would double with the computing chair)? A “watching the dog yard chair (no longer needed)? A wine-sipping chair? And most important, an Admiral’s deck chair for guiding the ship of life? Sorry, I couldn’t resist. 😛 She deserves as many chairs as she might like.

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#9530

Refraining from comment, I am.

[Doc Nock]

#9556

Refrain away, Bruce, I don’t have that restraint!

So HS Scents, move o ver, ole Hoss has found a new “cover scent!”

you don’t need be south f the M&D line, bro…they invaded PA long ago… and the hucksters are in force selling all manner of “traps” to capture them and dispose of them safely… crikey!

I don’t deny you the entrepreneur spirit to try to capitalize on that and bottle it up for profit— but I think from what news I gleaned, they be rather wide spread.

I tend to catch them alive, then usher them back into the outdoors…or plunk them in the commode. I noted they don’t swim well and are found belly up in the AM.

Good luck with your glove…good dose of doe in heat urine ought to remedy that stench!!! 😯

[David Coulter]

#9576

Yep. That’s the Pine Seed Bug. They invaded Eastern Pa a out the same time Lady Bugs were seeded here to help fight the Wooly Adelgig, which is killing our state tree, the hemlock. Both bugs tend to hatch right about when the windows are closed up and they really bug folks.

Good idea to cash in on them Smithhammer. I wish you great fortune! Dwc

[grumpy]

#9662

We don’t have nasty things like that here. We have Fred the mouse, doesn’t take up much room, doesn’t eat much, quiet most of the time, just takes a run across the floor now and then when Audrey is on the throne. Also have the Skunk family that lives under the shed, watches us do target practice, watches the backyard campfire, and none of them have sprayed. Yet. Far more polite, and civilized.

[grumpy]

#9673

OK, Audrey insisted I tell about the bees….

We all got stung, and every time I came home from work, I found Audrey hiding outside until I killed the bees that got in that day. They were in the bedrooms, living room, kitchen, everywhere. One day I killed a dozen with an issue of Trad Bow. Thought about taking a pic, and starting a thread called DEAD MEAT. Remember that Alfred Hitchcock movie THE BIRDS. That is the feeling. Skunks and mice are a lot more polite than bees. The bees and skunks are gone for the winter but we are going to be worrying all winter about the spring thaw…

[Stephen Graf]

#10146

dwcphoto wrote: Yep. That’s the Pine Seed Bug…Dwc

Those Pine Seed Bugs are actually kind of pretty. And they can smell of fruit. Definitely no sweet odors coming from these critters I speak of.

they are called brown marmorated stink bug (Halyomorpha halys) and there is nothing pleasant about them. Came from China in the ’90’s. Cause lots of crop damage and there is of course no recourse other than to live with it.

This is a real opportunity for trad bowhunters to save the world! Crush ’em up and spray thyself. At least then you won’t be asked to stay home and take care of the honey-do list 😀

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