I have lived in Maryland for six years now, and last summer was the first time I had ever seen these so called 'stink bugs.' I am from California, and stink bugs there are something completely different. Those bugs are black beetles half the size of my thumb, and they stick there rear in the air and if you are standing you can smell them all the way from where they are on the ground. When I moved up from Southern Maryland and I heard someone use the term stink bug, I honestly thought they were out of their mind. I also had a conversation about how bad they smell if you smash one, to which I did, and I could not smell a thing, maybe I was expecting something close to the California stink bugs (the smell came absolutely nowhere close...).
Now me along with everyone else had to deal with them coming into their house, this did not really bother me either, I am not squeamish around bugs and i would just grab them and put them right back outside. The only thing that really bothered me was them making their loud buzzing sound and smacking against walls while I was trying to get to sleep.
But I guess the bigger problem besides them coming into people's houses is that they are going through a lot of the fruit that is being grown for mass production.
Let's just say they suck...But can we please call them something besides 'stink bugs,' because I don't think it fits...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/garden/21garden.html?pagewanted=1#
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