![]() The stinkbugs, attracted to warmth, kept thwacking into their bodies as they worked. Pre-stinkbug crisis, the couple had been unwinding after work (she is an actress, comedian, and horse trainer he is a horticulturist), and were notably underdressed, in tank tops and boxers, for undertaking a full-scale extermination. She and Zimmerman fetched two brooms and started sweeping down the walls. ![]() “It was like a horror movie,” Stone recalled. Now they were covering every visible surface of her bedroom. That’s a stinkbug, a chorus of people had told her-specifically, a brown marmorated stinkbug. Stone knew what they were, because she’d seen a few around the house earlier that year and eventually posted a picture of one on Facebook and asked what it was. Their bedroom walls were crawling with insects-not dozens of them but hundreds upon hundreds. He sprinted up to join her, and the two of them stood in the doorway, aghast. Zimmerman was still downstairs when he heard her scream. Now, sitting in front of the TV, Stone suddenly realized that she’d left them open and went up to close them. That week, autumn had finally descended on the Carolinas, killing off the mosquitoes and sending nighttime temperatures plummeting, and the previous evening the couple had opened those doors a crack to take advantage of the cool air. ![]() Stone and Zimmerman live just outside Landrum, South Carolina, in an A-frame cabin upstairs in their bedroom, French doors lead out to a raised deck. One October night a few years back, Pam Stone was downstairs watching television with her partner, Paul Zimmerman, when it struck her that their house was unusually cold. ![]() To hear more feature stories, download the Audm app for your iPhone. ![]()
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