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Coping with Stinkbugs! Everything you need to know.
 A colleague (thank you Mary) recently sent me a link to an excellent article all about stinkbugs that ran recently in, of all places, The New Yorker. (Is there anything too erudite for those guys to cover?) For readers who don't know what a stinkbug is, (you must live in Louisiana, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, or Alaska, the last remaining states where the pest hasn't been reported.) it is a dime-sized armor-plated bug, named for it's tendency of releasing a foul smelling chemical when killed or crushed.  I won't recount the entire, exhaustive article, titled "When Twenty-Six Thousand Stinkbugs Invade Your Home," but I'll give you some of the highlights of things I have always wondered about the little stinks. The stinkbug is native to East Asia—mainly China, Taiwan, Japan, and North and South Korea, where local predators keep it in check. Scientists believe it came to America in the late '90's, probably in a shipping container from Asia. The first stinkbug sample was presented to scientists by a gentleman from Allentown, Pennsylvania. It was soon identified as the Brown Marmorated species. The insects appear everywhere, it seems. And they are destructive little buggers. According to the New Yorker, the stinkbug is "highly polyphagous, meaning ... more

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