I remember the first few summers they invaded Maryland en masse. They were everywhere, like the article describes. I got pretty good at picking them up with pa

I remember the first few summers they invaded Maryland en masse. They were everywhere, like the article describes. I got pretty good at picking them up with papers and throwing them in the toilet without them spraying their smell. My mother noticed they were coming through the chimney so she sprayed up there with some sort of bug spray. Bad idea. Hundreds of them died and fell all at once, each releasing their stink reserves in death. There were several vacuum cleaner bags worth of them. The living room smelled like soapy rotten cilantro for a week. They were so new, they didn’t really have natural predators. I was so happy to see a robin eat one one day. They didn’t come back in nearly as great a number after that.