As fall arrives many pests start to seek shelter from the cold. Their instinct is to find a warm retreat — which can often be your home! While we know that spiders are a common nuisance during the fall, stink bugs are another pest that also find their way inside. However, what makes stink bugs worse than other pests that enter your home is their smell. Once startled or crushed they emit a foul-smelling odor.

And wherever you live in the U.S. you can’t escape them. To find out more about stink bugs, why they creep inside during fall and how to get rid of them, I reached out to Emma Grace Crumbley, entomologist at Mosquito Squad Plus.

How to identify stink bugs

First of all you need to know what stink bugs look like — or smell like! Crumbley explains that common types of stink bugs includ

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