Squash bugs - bitter or toxic?

[ladybrasa]

Definitely Squash Bugs! Immature ones too, I think. But these aren’t the same as what we call stink bugs around here, though there is a resemblance. The ones I stepped on did not let out a stench like would have happened if I stepped on some stink bugs.

Yes, these are older chooks and have had times out free ranging, though not this Summer. These are the same ones I put a Japanese beetle trap in the run for. Ate those with little hesitation!

 

[centrarchid]

Definitely Squash Bugs! Immature ones too, I think. But these aren’t the same as what we call stink bugs around here, though there is a resemblance. The ones I stepped on did not let out a stench like would have happened if I stepped on some stink bugs.

Yes, these are older chooks and have had times out free ranging, though not this Summer. These are the same ones I put a Japanese beetle trap in the run for. Ate those with little hesitation!

Squash bugs smell more acrid to me than stink bugs and Leaf-footed bug. Many kinds of each.

 

[ladybrasa]

I think the critters we call stink bugs smell like strong sour apples

 

[Mmanist]

I can't get my chickens to eat them either. They look at earth worms as aliens too? Yet they eat all kinds of other gross things lol like stink bugs for example

 

[GC-Raptor]

I found a spotted cucumber beetle yesterday and gave to my Barred Rock hens and one wasn't interested but another ate it. GC

 

[centrarchid]

I found a spotted cucumber beetle yesterday and gave to my Barred Rock hens and one wasn't interested but another ate it. GC

Try putting a couple hundred in a brooder with chicks. The chicks seem to taste and reject some, at least initially. Some of the chicks are also less picky.