Finally, some good news about stink bugs

WASHINGTON — You’ll likely notice fewer of those troublemaking, invasive stink bugs this year.

“Many of the natural enemies, many of our indigenous predators and parasites, have actually caught up with these guys now and are having a major impact on their population,” said University of Maryland entomology professor Mike Raupp.

“It’s kind of like ‘War of the Worlds,’ where the little microbes defeated the alien.”

Many different insects target stink bugs, according to Raupp.

“We found some of the tiny parasitic wasps that attack their eggs have moved over from our native stink bugs and are now stinging and killing the eggs of the brown marmorated stink bug,” he said.

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