Originally posted by minute2midnight
Originally posted by DClairvoyant
We have these stink bugs in England in the UK and their cool little dudes, they come in all different colours and I always wanted to know what they were called. These stink bugs have been in the UK ever since I was a kid they've been here for decades
Not the same thing. They don't come in different colors. If you had them, you would not think they were cool.
Common in Britain and Ireland, scarce in Scotland.
Originally posted by DClairvoyant
Originally posted by minute2midnight
Originally posted by DClairvoyant
We have these stink bugs in England in the UK and their cool little dudes, they come in all different colours and I always wanted to know what they were called. These stink bugs have been in the UK ever since I was a kid they've been here for decades
Not the same thing. They don't come in different colors. If you had them, you would not think they were cool.
You haven't looked outside the box then they do come in different colours i'l show you alink or two and as for pictures I could take some for you when we next have a mega hot sunny day
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Common in Britain and Ireland, scarce in Scotland.
Link is here scienceray.com...
All you gotta do is think outside the box and do your OWN homework
Love & Light.
Members of Congress from Maryland, Pennsylvania and three other states under siege by the brown marmorated stink bug are asking federal authorities to allow farmers to fight back with pesticides that are not now approved for such use.
Rallied by Maryland Republican Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, 15 members signed a letter Friday to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, arguing that "if we fail to take action … damage from this insect could prove to be a national crisis."
Farmers in Maryland and other Mid-Atlantic states are reporting significant crop damage — 20 percent or more in some orchards — from the invasive Asian species.
The congressional letter asks the USDA to "fast-track" reclassification of the stink bug, Halyomorpha halys, from a nonregulated pest to one that is regulated. That would allow the EPA to approve the unregistered, emergency use of any pesticides found to be effective. Many existing products don't work because of the insect's feeding and over-wintering habits.
Greg Rosenthal, spokesman for the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, said the agency has not yet seen the letter. But, he said, the service "is convening a New Pest Advisory Group to consider the regulatory status of the pest."
The letter also asks the USDA to fund expanded monitoring, control and eradication programs, and to work with universities and private companies to register pesticides found to be effective.
"Time is of the essence," the bipartisan group wrote. "The goal is to marshal all available government resources to develop an effective control than can be implemented by next spring." Besides Bartlett, signers include Maryland Democratic Reps. Frank Kratovil, Steny Hoyer, and C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, as well as members from districts in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Oklahoma and California.
reply to post by Ceriddwen
They'll get worse every year. Those carcasses from last year, attracted the new ones this year. That's how they mark your house as 'safe', next year you'll have even more. And more dead ones, and the stink attracts even more.
The carcasses are gone, and I have been catching them in bottles and drowning them. We have four pets and
can't spray pesticides around. Thankfully today it was too cool and breezy for them to hang around the doors and windows, so for a day, at least, we
got a break.
