“He says stink bugs came to North America 20 years ago from Asia.”
We had the 45+ years ago in Iowa as a kid. My sister and I would twist a towel into a rat tail and snap those things like a whip.
I do recall them.
And they were associated with a certain type of tree???
IIRC they were about 3/4 inch long and 1/4 inch wide?
Not wide and squat like the lastest Asian invaders?
We have the same bugs here but they are green. I remember the smell as a kid picking blackberries. We always ended up with a few in the bucket.
That was a different variety. These are Asian bugs. We had “stink bugs” in Tennessee back in the early seventies. Used to kill them with a large butcher knife I used to cut the squash with. Wiped it in the dirt, then my pants legs after killing them.