User blog:CptSteveRogers/My Home is Getting Invaded! D:

....By stink bugs. That's right, the leaf like, brown colored bug that is only in a selected part of the east coast, (and a few other states) are coming out right now these past two days, and like every year for the last few, they're taking over! Every year, they come out around August, or September. But this year, they haven't, as the weather has been a bit cooler the last few weeks. But yesterday and today, they bombed us yet again.

If you don't know what they are, then here's a brief description of why they're here: (from wikipedia)

" The brown marmorated stink bug was accidentally introduced into the United States from China or Japan. It is believed to have hitched a ride as a stowaway in packing crates. The first documented specimen was collected in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in September 1998.] Several Muhlenberg College students were reported to have seen these bugs as early as August of that same year.

Other reports have the brown marmorated stink bug recovered as early as 2000 in New Jersey from a black light trap run by the Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) Vegetable Integrated Pest Management program in Milford, New Jersey. [14] In 2002, it was again collected in New Jersey from black light traps located in Phillipsburg and Little York and was found on plant material in Stewartsville. It was quickly documented and established in many counties in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Connecticut and New York on the eastern coast of the United States. By 2009, this agricultural pest had reached Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, and Oregon.[15] In 2010 this pest was found in additional states including Indiana,[16] Michigan,[17] Minnesota,[18] and other states.[19] As of November 2011 it has spread to 34 U.S. states[5] and by 2012 to 40 and showed an increase of 60% in total numbers over 2011."

If you want to learn more, check out the link yourself.



In the article it says the following:

 "As of 2012, native predators such as wasps and birds were showing increased signs of feeding on the bugs as they adapt to the new food source."

IDK where they get that source from, but that's not true were I live. Maybe because our wasps and birds are smarter.

So why did I make this blog? Simple. I made it because it involves my statues on the wiki. If I'm not active, it's because they all got in, and I moved out of state, were there's no internet.

Ah, and one more thing, if they get mad, or you squash them, they live up to their name! So if I'm in the middle of a conversation on chat, and then go AFK, it's because I killed one.

Do you like the bugs? Lovely Gross I'd eat'em

 L • S  • B , Who has nothing better to do.