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Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Stinkbugs

When a homeowner gets fed up with stinkbugs, they can call an exterminator. What do states and even entire regions do when faced with the same messy problem? The Baltimore Sun reports that the Agriculture Department may have already come up with an answer. USDA tests show that tiny, parasitic Asian wasps will hijack stink bug eggs for their own young, destroying up to 80-percent of them. While stink bugs are not a threat to people, they are a threat to crops. Asian wasps, on the other hand, are very tiny and do not attack insects that are considered beneficial.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Go Snakeheads! Very tasty but what happened when they were introduced to native waters.