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It’s time! Watch for Brown Marmorated Stink Bugs

It’s time! Brown Marmorated Stink Bugs are migrating to houses in the eastern USA and one report so far from Iowa. Please keep in touch with observations or allegations of BMSB in Iowa.

Tweet from LauraJesse@LauraJessISU 9/30/13: “First report of brown marmorated stink bug indoors from eastern Iowa. We track this insect, so let us know if you see any.”

Tweet from Tracy Leskey@BMSBresearch, USDA lead researcher on BMSB 9/30/13: “Stink bugs are plentiful in Mid-Atlantic states, and they’re ready to come indoors for winter.”

Read more:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/stink-bugs-are-plentiful-in-mid-atlantic-states-and-theyre-ready-to-come-indoors-for-winter/2013/09/29/32dd1fe8-2493-11e3-b75d-5b7f66349852_story.html

HHPN article: http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/hortnews/2012/10-17/bmsb.html

Thanks.

Donald Lewis

Iowa State University Entomologist

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