But in my yard.
They are not bothering me, but I have seen more this year than in the last 20 years I lived in my house.
I am in in Rochester NH, any one else noticing this and what would be the cause? Could it be last year's drout ? My maple trees area making for last year with an over abundance of helecopters/whirly gigs do to the drout, do snake over compensate for nature like humans after a prolonged power outage?
Maybe it's due to the last two milder winters allowing the young ones a better chance of survival. Now if someone could tell me where all these stink bugs are coming from. I don't remember seeing these pests when I was young.
The stink bugs are an invasive pest from Asia, like the Asian longhorn beetle and the emerald ash borer. They were at their worst here a few years ago - we still get them, but not as many. On the plus side, our local woodpecker population is thriving, as they've acquired a taste for the ash borers.
As to the snakes, our resident northern water snake (it dens under a piece of deck right next to the vegetable garden) is back as usual, but I haven't seen any others to this point.
In reply to lrrs:
Got any land clearing or development going on nearby? We chase snakes to neighboring properties all the time. LOTS of them.
02Pilot wrote: The stink bugs are an invasive pest from Asia, like the Asian longhorn beetle and the emerald ash borer. They were at their worst here a few years ago - we still get them, but not as many. On the plus side, our local woodpecker population is thriving, as they've acquired a taste for the ash borers.
It's sad, but I may be partially responsible for bringing those things to NJ. We never had any at all until we had a group come through the Borgata. Their backdrop Curtains were festering with the things from a gig they did the night before down south.
We have had them in Southern NJ ever since.
SVreX wrote: In reply to lrrs: Got any land clearing or development going on nearby? We chase snakes to neighboring properties all the time. LOTS of them.
Nope and nope again, but I also noticed lots of bees building nests on various parts of my house. Not all the same bees, but again more nests than I have seen in the past.
Intriguing.
This is a big year for ticks around here - because last fall was a boom year for acorns, which means more mice, which means more ticks (and probably more snakes too)
In reply to cmcgregor:
Have a lot of ticks here also, not the worst year, but close.
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