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What are thooooooose?!?!


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.

by Homochitto

43 Comments

  3. BlackCatJax

    These are not spotted lanternfly nymphs. They are stink bug nymphs. They suck the sap of leaves (there are a few predatory stink bug nymphs, but most aren’t.) I don’t know enough about those to ID them better than that, but if they are native, please don’t kill them.

    Where are you located? It would help ID them so I can figure out if they are invasive

  5. Jumpy_Stretch3758

    If they are indeed stink bugs, I say kill them. Because stink bugs are nasty!🤢

  7. Choice_Bee_775

    My biggest nightmare. That’s what they are.

  11. FruityPebbIez

    Absolutely not. I almost threw my phone 😳

  12. Mysterious-Load-3971

    I would get them out of your house ASAP. I bought a house that had been unoccupied for about a year and stink bugs were EVERYWHERE. It took months to get rid of them. And they are clumsy unpredictable fliers, which drives me insane. They hover around lights,TVs, lamps, computers, etc.. at night. 😟

  13. superawesomeflyguy

    I honestly thought the egg sac cluster was some sort of doily 🤦🏼‍♂️

  15. ChrystineDreams

    I’d be like, put a plastic bag over that leaf with a tie, take the leaf right off and dispose of it. the plant can grow another leaf.

    As others have said they look like stinkbug nymphs, they are not harmful to people, but they do apparently smell unpleasant when squished. ( there are some in my garden and I haven’t noticed a smell when I pick ’em and squish’ em on the ground).

  18. ilcontatto

    Funnily enough I got the same kind of insects this morning, on the same kind of plant, and I was also kinda really freaked out by them before I understood what they were (it’s stinkbugs apparently lol)

  19. Starseedmeditating

    Those are my sandals.

    ![gif](giphy|mfD8EzOxqkvYs)

  22. queerjesusfan

    Make a soapy water trap and scrape them off into it. Only way to try to avoid the smell!

  24. grumpy_chameleon

    Why do the eggs look like those fused beads art things 🤢

  25. FlowerDogMama

    See, this is the stress of putting my plants outside in the warmer months

  26. DarkGoblin

    In Europe we have had a plague of chinese rice stink bugs in some countries. The first occured about 10 years ago and are a real danger to nearly any crop.
    Maybe check if it’s those so you can really freak out.

  28. _hateshi_

    ![gif](giphy|INYGOfA5qEw5PHMWRe|downsized)

    No one sent you an invitation

  32. JavlaTjej

    That is a sacrificial plant. Burn on stake to appease plant gods.

  33. TomBombadil25

    I love my houseplants, but I think that would make me send it to the compost bin asap.

  34. StrikingBumblebee247

    I’m so upset this isn’t AI like I thought at first glance 😭

  36. RuggedHamster

    Just had some hatch on my pepper plant yesterday. Didn’t seem like they ate anything yet.
    Just wanted to leave here that they *hate* insecticidal soap. Spray – spray – dead in seconds. Hose em off after and done.

    If you spend a lot of time with your plants, you can usually catch them in the egg cluster stage though and discard them.

  38. Adireader

    ![gif](giphy|FY8c5SKwiNf1EtZKGs|downsized)

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