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Stink Bugs Have Landed:"Has no natural enemies here"-Name the spider that killed the stinkbug

Posted on 10/04/2010 9:03:37 PM PDT by JoeProBono

"Native to Asia, it was first found in Allentown, Pa., and has no natural enemies here."


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: spider; stinkbug
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1 posted on 10/04/2010 9:03:41 PM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono

I’d say black widow due to its shape.


2 posted on 10/04/2010 9:07:17 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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I’ve evacuated a few hundred from my house over the past month. I understand that they converge on the stink that last year’s bugs left as a trace for winter sanctuary. They are harmless, but sadly wind up in the most inconvenient places. I wonder how long they live - and what they eat?


3 posted on 10/04/2010 9:10:17 PM PDT by GregoryFul
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To: JoeProBono
it was first found in Allentown, Pa.

What year?

4 posted on 10/04/2010 9:12:27 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: Secret Agent Man

I would have to agree with you. A size reference would make it easier.


5 posted on 10/04/2010 9:13:10 PM PDT by aliquando (A Scout is T, L, H, F, C, K, O, C, T, B, C, and R.)
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To: GregoryFul

The adults are approximately ⅝ inch long and the underside is white or pale tan, sometimes with gray or black markings. The legs are brown with faint white banding. The stink glands are located on the underside of the thorax, between the first and second pair of legs.

It is an agricultural pest that can cause widespread damage to fruit and vegetable crops. In Japan it is a pest to soybean and fruit crops. In the US, the brown marmorated stink bug feeds, beginning in late May or early June, on a wide range of fruits, vegetables, and other host plants including peaches, apples, green beans, soybeans, cherry, raspberries, and pears. It is a sucking insect, a "true bug", that uses its proboscis to pierce the host plant in order to feed. This feeding results, in part, in the formation of small, necrotic areas on the outer surface of fruits but ranges from leaf stippling, cat-facing on tree fruits, seed loss, and transmission of plant pathogens."

6 posted on 10/04/2010 9:16:09 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: PistolPaknMama

http://ento.psu.edu/extension/factsheets/brown-marmorated-stink-bug


7 posted on 10/04/2010 9:18:18 PM PDT by libertarian27 (Ingsoc: Department of Life, Department of Liberty, Department of Happiness)
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To: JoeProBono

I have one rule in regards to insects - the outside is yours but the inside is mine. Cross the threshold and you die. I’m constantly killing spiders and those weird multi-legged creepy crawly things in my basement, especially now that it’s getting cooler outside.


8 posted on 10/04/2010 9:18:24 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Obama, Pelosi and Reid - the Trio of Twits)
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To: JoeProBono

I like them. They look like little tanks. They are common here in small numbers. They don’t bother me, so I just let them be.


9 posted on 10/04/2010 9:21:02 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts ma'am, just the facts)
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To: GregoryFul; Secret Agent Man
Size Reference

Computer Monitor Plug


10 posted on 10/04/2010 9:22:47 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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We’ve found that the local starlings (black birds) are tearing through the stink bugs at a fantastic rate around here.

Never thought I’d welcome starlings as nasty as they can be... but I’ll root for the natives over the invaders in this one... LOL


11 posted on 10/04/2010 9:25:00 PM PDT by BCR #226 (07/02 SOT www.extremefirepower.com...The BS stops when the hammer drops.)
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To: PistolPaknMama

“Native to Asia, the stink bug was first found in Allentown, Pa., in 1998 and appears to have no natural enemies here. More research is needed to understand, for example, why the bugs reproduced at a faster rate this year.”


12 posted on 10/04/2010 9:29:49 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: BCR #226

Name the spider that killed the stinkbug


13 posted on 10/04/2010 9:31:53 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: BCR #226

You do know that starlings aren’t native, don’t you?


14 posted on 10/04/2010 9:32:41 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 622 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: null and void

The spider is native to Pennsylvania and lives in back of my computer.


15 posted on 10/04/2010 9:35:29 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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16 posted on 10/04/2010 9:40:04 PM PDT by JRios1968 (What is the difference between 0bama and his dog, Bo? Bo has papers.)
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17 posted on 10/04/2010 9:44:37 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: libertarian27
was apparently accidentally introduced into eastern Pennsylvania. It was first collected in September of 1998 in Allentown, but probably arrived several years earlier.

This is why I asked what year and instead of getting a year, I got a link. That's because people can't decipher information at links but know how to copy and paste links. I grew up in central SC and remember the stink bug as a very young girl. That would date the stink bug about about 40 years earlier than this article in a completely different part of the country.

Maybe it arrived in PA or the north east in 1998, but it's been in the US a whole lot longer than that.

18 posted on 10/04/2010 9:45:44 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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Freddy. He killed a stink bug and he’s a good spider for it. I don’t care what species he is as long as he keeps killing these nasty bugs.


19 posted on 10/04/2010 9:46:17 PM PDT by BCR #226 (07/02 SOT www.extremefirepower.com...The BS stops when the hammer drops.)
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To: null and void

doesn’t matter. I’ll tolorate them as they’ve been here much, much longer than stink bugs and they don’t invade the house like stink bugs do.


20 posted on 10/04/2010 9:47:07 PM PDT by BCR #226 (07/02 SOT www.extremefirepower.com...The BS stops when the hammer drops.)
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