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Thursday, May 26, 2016
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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I wonder if they will leave after their king leaves the Whitehouse?
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ReplyDeleteNow if we could get the University of Maryland to sprinkle some insects around the perimeter of The White House, having them flush out the stink bugs in there. Help Mr. Trump some...life's good again.