Brown Marmorated Stink Bug -- <i>Halyomorpha halys</i> (IMAGE)

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Brown Marmorated Stink Bug -- <i>Halyomorpha halys</i>

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Brown marmorated stink bugs are master home invaders. Particularly in winter, when they seek shelter from the cold, if a structure has a gap or entrance large enough to fit through, they will find it. A new study by researchers at Virginia Tech and the US Department of Agriculture shows that slits less than 3 millimeters wide and holes less than 7 millimeters wide should successfully exclude the vast majority of brown marmorated stink bugs. The results are published Feb. 13, 2019, in the Journal of Economic Entomology.

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Mohammed El Damir, Bugwood.org, CC BY 3.0 US

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