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."
I’d say black widow due to its shape.
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?
What year?
I would have to agree with you. A size reference would make it easier.
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."
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.
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.
Computer Monitor Plug
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
“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.”
Name the spider that killed the stinkbug
You do know that starlings aren’t native, don’t you?
The spider is native to Pennsylvania and lives in back of my computer.
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.
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.
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.
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