1. The harder the apple, the more resistant to stink bugs.
2. Sweeter apples seem to be favored by the stink bug; I have to throw out about 50% of my York Imperials that I bought. The York apples are soft and the damage traversed through the fruit and sometimes affected the core. Winter Banana and Pleasure were two sweet, but hard apples; only had to cut where the puncture was.
3. Tart were also affected but much less.
Next year should be when some of my apple trees start producing. Since I will only have a few apples, I plan on using a very, fine nylon pocket to cover each apple.
I am wondering if anyone has had partial/full success dealing with stink bugs?
Does anyone have any other ideas besides spraying pesticides? To be effective, pesticides have to be sprayed every four or five days.
I tried a one of those lure traps in my garden (stink bugs love tomatoes) but it did not catch one stink bug

I also squish them between my fingers or step on them but there are too many!