15 October 2015
Look closely at the big dark blob near the top of this picture.
Ewwww. It’s a brown marmorated stinkbug!
So many stinkbugs were searching for cracks to crawl into last weekend that one landed on the falconcam cover and triggered this motion detection snapshot.
How many security cameras have taken stinkbug photos this month?
How many stinkbugs have broken in?
p.s. This one did not get inside.
Interesting factlet from Virginia Tech about these invasive Asian bugs: They prefer habitats with invasive Chinese trees: ailanthus and paulownia. No wonder they’re in Pittsburgh! See: http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2012/09/092012-cals-stinkbug.html
TYPO ALERT:
“Look closely at the big dark blog near the top of this picture.”
BLOB
Freudian Slip???
🙂
Quite a Freudian slip. Thanks for catching it, Rob.
We live in a rural section of Newark, DE, and they are a real problem. When I was pruning our Kousa Dogwoods, I realized they were covered with them. Yuck!