FreddieSpider
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."
NUKE EM!!!!
That’s amazing! I was going to say ‘Fred’ but I looked to see if anyone else had replied first.
Fair enough
One natural enemy, me!
If seen just step on them!
What I know as a stink bug is black , about an inch long, and when confronted stickes his butt in the air, STOMP, and it’s now a flat black spot.
Trying to help you out with your important question about when it arrived in Allentown, PA, since you apparently already know when you saw them in SC.
Sticky pads for the basement or attic for creepy crawlers.
See my post 18. This is hogwash. I remember stink bugs back in the 60’s and 70’s in central SC. Some scientist is going to say they were first documented in ‘98 in Allentown. Maybe that’s the first time they thought of writing it down, but I promise they were three or four states south, three decades earlier. This is more junk science, though not really sure what the point is.
Uh......I hate to tell you, but the Starlings are not native either.
The Stink Bugs are a family in the order Hemiptera, as dogs ( including wolves etc. ) and cats ( including lions and tigers, etc. ) are each families in the order Carnivora.
From Peterson's Field Guide to the Insects, "This is a large and well-known group, and many of its members are very common bugs." The article is talking about the introduction of a particular species.
Yep. I’m 76 and the stinky critters have been around all of my life. We used to play with them and make them stink. It was great fun for country kids.
FreddieSpider
They may have been found in Allentown for the first time in
1998 but we had them in South Carolina when I was growing up back in the fifties.
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
Halyomorpha halys
The brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB), an insect not previously seen on our continent, was apparently accidentally introduced into eastern Pennsylvania. It was first collected in September of 1998 in Allentown, but probably arrived several years earlier. As of September 2010, Halyomorpha halys has been recorded from the following 37 counties, although it is probable that they are in all counties:
Adams, Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Berks, Blair, Bucks, Butler, Cambria, Carbon, Centre, Chester, Clinton, Columbia, Cumberland, Dauphin, Delaware, Franklin, Indiana, Lackawanna, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lehigh, Luzerne, Mercer, Mifflin, Monroe, Montgomery, Northampton, Northumberland, Perry, Philadelphia, Pike, Snyder, Washington, Westmoreland and York
It is also recorded from many other states such as:
California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, D.C. and West Virginia
I posted the same thing before I read your post. I was born in 1944 in South Carolina and we had those things in the garden when I was a boy back in the fifties.
Thank you for your clarification that this thread is about the brown marmorated stink bug that was unfortunately introduced in 1998 and not the other varieties of shield bugs that have been on this continent for years.
People really get stinky about their stink bug encounters:>)
Actually, this thread is about a spider that killed a stink bug.
I’d guess Brown Widow (Common House Spider). I don’t see an hourglass on the belly.
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