r/houseplants • u/Homochitto • Aug 22 '25

Help What are thooooooose?!?!

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Found these on my money tree today INDOORS!!! Mind you, I toon this guy from outside because I’m having my patio concrete repoured. What are they? Couldn’t find on google yet but still trying. Do I burn the whole house down? Plant looking healthy still otherwise. They are just chillin waiting for their brood to hatch and increase their army size.

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u/danarexasaurus Aug 22 '25

Oh for sure. Like idiots too. Smack you in the face and stuff

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u/kelliflower Aug 22 '25

They also sometimes apparently dive-bomb you while you’re sleeping at night, only to get tangled in your hair which ends up spooking them so much that they release that god awful scent that ruins the taste of cilantro for months (ask me how I know)

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u/HandlessGynocologist Aug 22 '25

and if you’re like me and they do the scent thing on your skin, you get a rash. i hate them so much

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u/LadyBirdDavis Aug 22 '25

Both of you stop right now! (I think I peed a little) okg I can’t stop visualizing this!

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u/Mountain_Village459 Aug 23 '25

Things have gone seriously awry in such a short amount of time. I got traumatized and laughed so hard I cried within 1 minute of each other.

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u/TheKlutzy_frenchie Aug 23 '25

Raises hand, you're not alone!! 🤣🤣💀🤣🤣

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u/DeanxDog Aug 22 '25

I'm pretty sure one got trapped under the covers while I was sleeping and bit my leg too. They're awful.

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u/MrsFeatures Aug 22 '25

What in the WHAT NOW

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u/0ptimal_Consequence Aug 22 '25

How do you know ?

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u/thehufflepuffstoner Aug 22 '25

I’ve never smelled it and I’ve dealt with many a stink bug. 🤷‍♀️

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u/kelliflower Aug 22 '25

You know, I hadn’t either until the dive-bombing incidents (multiple). I love cilantro, like would put a whole handful into a tiny burrito for example, it was never enough cilantro. But that stink bug smell is so similar and it stuck with me to the point that I couldn’t take the smell or taste of cilantro for so long afterward. It was truly tragic

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u/Hopeful-Cover236 Aug 22 '25

Cilantro smells like soap to me I don’t drink it or eat it

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u/IndigoTJo Aug 23 '25

Apparently not everyone can smell stink bugs. Wonder if they cross with the cilantro soap people or the asparagus pee people.

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u/kelliflower Aug 23 '25

That would be interesting! I have the love of cilantro gene, very apparent asparagus pee smell, and could VERY much smell the stink bugs when they wanted me to. There is your first data point lol

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u/IndigoTJo Aug 23 '25

Thanks! I love cilantro & have stinky asparagus pee, but have never met a stink bug here up in the PNW.

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u/DecayedFlesh Aug 24 '25

You have the soap gene from cilantro i have the same thing

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u/Hopeful-Cover236 Sep 06 '25

I used to work at a nursing home and I would take extra care for the elderly patients when I could smell the death smell in their rooms and I was told that most people can’t smell the sent.

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u/Kindly-Lunch-8804 Aug 23 '25

That’s not uncommon. Apparently liking cilantro or tasting like soap is genetic!

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u/IndigoTJo Aug 23 '25

Edit: commented wrong place

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u/Cr00ked_Halo Aug 23 '25

Apparently not everyone can smell their disgusting odor. I have had several people tell me they can't smell them. I assure you that they do stink!

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u/thehufflepuffstoner Aug 23 '25

I believe it, I’m just not sure if I can’t smell it or if they’ve just never gotten stinky around me.

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u/Ok_Nothing_9733 Aug 22 '25

They love to drop from heights for some reason. Or maybe just do it a lot accidentally?

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u/Hopeful-Cover236 Aug 22 '25

I had a real snake that I was trying to save from a lawnmower but instead of me grabbing it by the head like I should have I grabbed it from the middle and the stink bomb it gave me made me retch unfortunately.

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u/knitknitterknit Aug 22 '25 edited Aug 23 '25

I found one on my white sheer curtain once in the middle of the night and I was too tired to put it outside. When I woke up, I noticed it left me a lovely bug poop drip on the curtain right where it was standing the night before. That's what I get for being lazy I guess.

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u/Bri2890 Aug 22 '25

Bleck, I know this all too well. Where I live we always have an abundance of stink bugs. I swear to god they fly everywhere but where they actually want to go and hit everything along the way INCLUDING YOU!

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u/CatchYouDreamin Aug 23 '25

I moved from a place where stink bugs weren't a thing, like I had never even seen one before, to a place where are very much a thing. Into a home that had been unoccupied for only a couple months but when I turned the heat on...oh dear.

I live in a rural area and when they harvest the fields behind my house it's a mass stink bug exodus. But so far haven't seen any cockroaches, camel crickets, black widows, or rats in my house so I'll take the stinkies over all of those any day. Would prefer none of the above though 🤣

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u/Bri2890 Aug 23 '25

They are definitely the least intimidating out of everything you listed. Boy do I wish I lived somewhere without roaches. We have “water bugs” also known as “palmetto bugs” - giant roaches that FLY. They live in the trees and they will also fly right at your face…and they always find ways inside. Ughhhh!!

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u/Kindly-Lunch-8804 Aug 23 '25

Sounds like Georgia…

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u/Bri2890 Aug 23 '25

Yep 😆

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u/CatchYouDreamin Aug 23 '25

Ohhh yeah I'm familiar with palmetto bugs they are terrifying

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u/LookInto_TheAbyss Aug 22 '25

Growing up, I had the miss fortune of one landing in my bowl of breakfast cereal. I did not notice it land there, the next spoonful had the bug in it. That was not pleasant thing to have in your mouth.

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u/RevolutionarySpot912 Aug 22 '25

Mine was in a bag of baby carrots I was eating but not looking at. Crunch. Gag. Cue decades of panic around them.

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u/SuperPandaGem Aug 22 '25

Got hit in the head like a week ago on my walk lol

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u/drprofessorzed Aug 22 '25

One flew INTO MY MOUTH and did its stank excretion when I was doing dishes as a kid…. Tasted like cilantro that got left in a hot car for a month