On Sun, 08 May 2011 08:20:38 -0400, Frank
wrote:

If you are not familiar with them yet, they're coming your way.
Ruined my peppers last year.

http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20110508/BUSINESS/105080360/Pungent-pest-issue-hard-squash?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Home


That article says what I've heard elsewhere "Though the bugs don't
bite or cause damage. . "
But then, a couple pages later it says ;
"Some growers in the mid-Atlantic reported losing up to 90 percent of
apple harvests last year, said George Hamilton, pest-management expert
and professor of entomology at Rutgers University. That equated to a
$37 million crop loss."

and
"Garden greens and hot peppers seem to be off the bugs' menu, Hamilton
says, but they do dine on bell peppers, tomatoes, green beans, lima
beans, sweet corn, squash and grapes. Not to mention figs, mulberries,
citrus fruits, persimmons, blackberry, sweet corn, field corn and
soybeans."

First I've heard of them damaging crops.

I've got a couple pineapple-smelling stink bugs that pop up in the
summer-- but no hoards of these buggers yet. [near Schenectady, NY]

Jim