Just read this article and wanted to pass it along! The University of Maryland Entomologist, Michael Raupp, is called the Bug Doctor. I went to a workshop he gave a couple of years ago ~ he is hilarious! You will enjoy his comments in this article.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/28/garden/wanted-dead-or-alive-no-just-dead.html?_r=1&
He mentions the Wheel Bug as one of the predators of the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug. I just happened to have experienced the piercing expertise of this bug when one stung my hand this past year! Yee-ouch!! Guess I should not have suffocated it with alcohol like I did, but I did not know what it was at the time!
If you stopped by the Reston Farmers Market the day I brought it to Show And Tell, you will remember that this is a big bug and it is ugly. It scared a number of people ~ even big teenage boys! I guess looks don't have anything to do with how good a bug is for the environment and the microecosystems around here!
Hope you are not being inundated by BMSB in your home this winter. Those little stinkers don't like cold weather, do they?! There are homemade "traps" you can make or buy if these bugs are troublesome in your home.
