While it's barely spring here, the first bug that flew into our house last week was a stinker.
We had lots of them last year eating my tomatoes.
It's always something!
"Stink bugs pose a grave threat to agriculture and they can cause millions of dollars worth of damage and ruin entire fields of crops.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has spent $10million trying to find a way to exterminate them but has so far had been unsuccessful.
‘I would say people now regard them as an out-of-control pest,’ said Kim Hoelmer, a research entomologist at the USDA.
‘They feed on a wide range of important food crops. Crops such as sweet corn, apples, pears, grapes, berries, peaches, tomatoes and peppers appear to be the most vulnerable.
‘Some growers have lost their entire crop to stink bug infestations.
This adds up to many millions of dollars of losses in crop values.
It's a serious economic loss to some growers.’"
Edited by Rogerdodger, 31 March 2011 - 02:43 PM.
