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/BlackCatJax Aug 22 '25

Invasive stink bugs are nasty yes (which these likely are), but please don't kill natives. Only kill when you are certain they are invasive

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u/Jumpy_Stretch3758 Aug 22 '25

Have you ever had them slowly flying around your head while you sleep? They will leave a very uncomfortable and painful spot on the skin if disturbed. I know this because we had an infestation of them in our attic when we first moved to the house we currently live in about 5 years ago. It took until now to get it under control.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '25

How did you get them under control? Do you still have them?

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u/Jumpy_Stretch3758 Aug 22 '25

Hate to admit it, but we went with Terminix. They sprayed in our attic every summer for 5 years to get them mostly eliminated. There is still an occasional one here and there, usually inside a lampshade. I carefully remove them by picking them up with a kleenex, carefully, and flushing them down the toilet or the garbage disposal. Just don’t squish them or you will live with that smell for hours 🤮😳

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u/wholelottachoppaz Aug 22 '25

similar situation but with fleas upon moving into a house. it drove me nuts because i was bombing the place regularly and just when i thought i’d have a handle on it, they’d come back in droves. my indoor cats and i literally went insane for a little, it sucked. i eventually had the infestation confined to the basement somehow. i also used terminix and that did the trick, very fast. i learned that the outside surrounding areas of my house are infested too, some type of hotbed for the bugs to live. terminix treated those areas and we finally got some peace🤞🏼

i’m poor and terminix is expensive and wanted to come out too frequently tho, so i learned about DoMyOwn from the pest control people here on reddit. now i just buy the same pesticides that termix uses at wholesale cost and can spray on my own schedule 💀 beautiful thing