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Brown marmorated stink bug latest invasive pest threat to U.S. crops
Western Farm Press ^
| 12/16/2010
| Harry Cline
Posted on 12/16/2010 7:03:24 AM PST by Dominic L. Fottfoy
The dirty dozen have become the stinking 13 with the latest invasive pest alert by USDA-APHIS and university entomologists across the U.S. for growers to be on the lookout for the brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB).
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TOPICS: Agriculture; Business/Economy; Food; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: agriculture; invasivespecies; stinkbug
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To: Dominic L. Fottfoy
Wait til Steadman (Eric Holder) hears of this.
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posted on
12/16/2010 7:08:10 AM PST
by
blackdog
To: Dominic L. Fottfoy
Brown marmorated stink bug latest invasive pest threat to U.S. crops I can think of a similar stink bug pest who is a threat to every aspect of the U.S.
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posted on
12/16/2010 7:09:01 AM PST
by
theDentist
(fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
To: Dominic L. Fottfoy
There are NO pics of the stinker. But I found some on google. I run into these guys every now and then here in E TX. Didn’t realize they were so threatening! They aren’t tiny, they are a decent sized bug.
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posted on
12/16/2010 7:10:52 AM PST
by
Dudoight
To: Dominic L. Fottfoy
We have them here in PA. Killed our cucumbers, zucchini, and other squashes.
To: Dominic L. Fottfoy
We need to bring back DDT.
To: Dominic L. Fottfoy
I detest these bugs. I have killed so many, I’ve lost count. I’m still killing them even though it’s been freezing outside for weeks. I’m waiting for somebody to come out with something to kill them.
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posted on
12/16/2010 7:18:48 AM PST
by
beandog
(I)
To: WakeUpAndVote
They are a plague here in the Pittsburgh area. From what research I’ve done, the first time they were seen was on a crate from Red China to Allentown, PA in 1996. They spread from there. I saw my first stinkbug right after Hurricane Ike came through in 2008
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posted on
12/16/2010 7:21:15 AM PST
by
Nowhere Man
(General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
To: Dudoight
We have swarms of them in VA and WV.
They’re evil; they destroy crops and infest houses, and they’re resistant to a lot of common garden pesticides.
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posted on
12/16/2010 7:21:19 AM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: beandog
I let them swarm all over my back porch.
Then I get out the Shop-Vac ...
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posted on
12/16/2010 7:22:32 AM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: beandog
Most pieces of firewoood have 20-100 bugs. I smack them off and bring the wood inside and it smells like stinkbug. It stinks outside too even after the rain. The bathroom vent is completely clogged with the damn things, I’m not sure how I’m going to get them out of there.
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posted on
12/16/2010 7:22:37 AM PST
by
palmer
(Cooperating with Obama = helping him extend the depression and implement socialism.)
To: Dominic L. Fottfoy
Ugly and stinky...
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posted on
12/16/2010 7:23:32 AM PST
by
raybbr
(Someone who invades another country is NOT an immigrant - illegal or otherwise.)
To: Dudoight
These have been a problem for some time. So what has brought the but to the forefront if the pest news? We had issues with them in our little garden this year as well.
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posted on
12/16/2010 7:27:58 AM PST
by
TheBattman
(They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature...)
To: Dominic L. Fottfoy
Not brown.
It be a bug of color.
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posted on
12/16/2010 7:30:19 AM PST
by
djf
(Touch my junk and I'll break yur mug!!!)
To: Dominic L. Fottfoy; Diana in Wisconsin; gardengirl; girlangler; SunkenCiv; HungarianGypsy; Gabz; ...
Garden Thread Ping To Stinky Bugs
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posted on
12/16/2010 7:33:13 AM PST
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: raybbr
Maybe it’s just the artiste in me, but the detail in that tiny little thing absolutely fascinates me. It looks very art moderne with an Asian flair. Wouldn’t want to smell it, however.
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12/16/2010 7:38:59 AM PST
by
ponygirl
To: Red_Devil 232
Thanx for the ping...
I think those bugs are what got my spinach and turnip greens, last year - over the course of one weekend, while I was out of town...
I had some luck with malathion - saved a lot of the turnips - but was too late with it to save the spinach....
(The Havelinas - local wild pigs - got in and finished the rest later in the season... Not a good year...)
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posted on
12/16/2010 7:40:05 AM PST
by
Uncle Ike
(Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
To: ponygirl
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posted on
12/16/2010 7:53:40 AM PST
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: All
My boss at work likes to catch them and feed them to his pet ducks. The ducks love to eat them.
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posted on
12/16/2010 7:54:50 AM PST
by
Nowhere Man
(General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
To: Red_Devil 232
Many of them are currently serving in Congress, and others were involved in drafting S-510.
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posted on
12/16/2010 7:57:02 AM PST
by
who knows what evil?
(G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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