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Cute little bug that likes sunflower leaves. That is the only place I find them. Between 0.5 and 1 cm I think. Found in South Texas.
I found the most wonderful bug this morning, on a husk cherry plant. Doesn't it look like a frog? The edges of the shell are transparent. So cool!
It sounds like a bad joke: A small brown bug that appears benign until you step on it. Then it releases a nasty odor, a kind of aromatic flipping of the bird to the cruel world.
But there’s really nothing funny about the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug, a species native to Asia that is making itself comfortable in New Jersey homes.
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"Outside, they’re everywhere. Inside, we remove one a day," said Jack Ciattarelli, a Hillsborough resident who is the Somerset County freeholder director. "I say remove, because we’ve learned, the hard way, not to kill the little critters."
First discovered in Allentown, Pa., in 1996, the nickle-sized bugs have invaded New Jersey and spread across the Eastern seaboard, annoying homeowners and creating havoc for farmers. With no natural enemies, they are increasing in numbers and no formal defense has been found to combat them.About two centimeters long with blue metallic spots and white antennae, the stink bugs seek shelter indoors in the fall. Dormant in winter, they become a nuisance in the spring. They are slow moving and noisy in flight, get caught in lamp shades and blinds and they flutter around ceilings, all in an effort to get outside.
Homeowners have learned the hard way how to handle them. Blunt force is not recommended, since crushing the bugs’ abdominal scent glands causes the stink. A better defense is to plug in the vacuum.
The Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
Latin Name: Halyomorpha halys
What they look like: Shaped like a crest or a shield, can be up to 2 cm long with a brown body, bluish metallic spots and white antennae
First found in U.S.: Allentown, Pa., in 1996
Prevention: Seal holes in exterior of home. The professional application of a pesticide spray on exterior of home may also be an effective deterrent.
How to get rid of them:Vacuum them up or toweling them and flushing them down the toilet. Crushing the bug will emit a strong odor.
"They don’t do any damage, but they’re a problem because they’re not native. It’s typical with things like this. They go through a population explosion because there’s no control for them," said George Hamilton, an entomologist at the Rutgers University’s Pest Management Office. "They have this nasty behavior where they congregate in large numbers and they go inside the houses in the fall."
But they are a growing concern for farmers, Hamilton said. Stink bugs enjoy the fruits of various flora. They have been damaging crops as they spread south and west through the United States, he said.
In northwestern New Jersey, apple farmers have reported as much as 70 percent of their crop being damaged by the bothersome bugs over the last two year, Hamilton said.
Because they are new to the country, entomologists are still testing ways to control the bugs’ population en masse.
"They’ve really only taken a strong push through New Jersey in the last two years," said Dan Bradbury of Viking Pest and Termite Control. "We used to get a call here and there now it’s multiple calls every day."
Rutgers’ Pest Management Office recommends sealing holes in the foundation, siding and light fixtures of the home to prevent the bugs from getting inside. Hamilton said stink bugs may be deterred by pesticide sprays applied by professional pest control companies to the exterior of a home, though the treatment is not guaranteed.
Once the bugs are indoors, however, the use of insecticides can be dangerous and is not recommended ,according to Leonard Douglen, executive director of the New Jersey Pest Management Association.
"You don’t want to be spraying insecticides inside a living environment," he said.
Bradbury suggests flushing and vacuuming for best results, but he doesn’t rule out the boot.
"I’ve smelled them and I don’t think it’s that bad," said Bradbury, whose chosen career suggests a higher tolerance for the ick factor. "But I guess it’s all up to interpretation."
Here is the trophy for Best Large Battle Bug. It's an adaptation of Nathan Proudlove's design from last year's BrickCon, used with his permission. I wanted to do classic space themes with the trophies, and rather than change the size of the bug on the trophy, change the scale in which the bugs are represented.
The small trophy was minifig, and the medium trophy was micro scale... so I was left contemplating how to shrink the scale even further when it occurred to me to just build a planet and cover it with ants. Then I remembered Nathan's awesome design and asked him if I could adapt it.
The planet looked a little lonely compared to the others, so I added the huge bug devouring it from below. Thanks again Nathan, for permission to adapt your work!
?Stink Bug and offspring on White Booyong Argyrodendron trifoliatum...Lismore Botanic Gardens NSW AU
I need help debugging this. The image is a screenshot of Word 2011 bug effects that are standing in the path of a book am finishing. Detail: I am using Microsoft® Word for Mac 2011, Version 14.21.3 (111085). While the Print view looks fine, and clicking on any text shows the correct style in the Styles toolbox, the Outline view has big problems. Lines of normal text, regardless of formatting, show up in the Outline view as Level 1. They also show up as Level 1 or 2 in the Document Map Pane sidebar, which is the pane on the left. I use this pane to navigate around the book, which is close to 300 pages and over 80,000 words. I can fix the problem by clicking on the line of text incorrectly seen by word as Heading 1, clearing the formatting, and re-formatting it if necessary. But that takes me about an hour each time this happens, and it's a huge PITA. Word's AutoRecovery works rarely, and when it does, the AutoRecovered file has the same problem. FWIW, I don't use any fancy formatting, instead relying on Word's own default Headings and other styles. Also, if I save in Outline view, ALL TEXT gets turned into Level 1, and the document is hosed. I just have to go back to the last good copy. Any clues or help you can provide would be greatly appreciated. And please don't tell me not to use Word. It's a requirement for getting the book in, and if I could avoid it, I would.