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The brown marmorated stink bug (Halyomorpha halys) is an insect in the family Pentatomidae, native to China, Japan, Korea, and other Asian regions. [2] In September 1998, it was collected in Allentown, Pennsylvania , where it is believed to have been accidentally introduced. [ 3 ]
Harmonia axyridis is a large lady beetle or ladybug species that is most commonly known as the harlequin, Asian, or multicoloured Asian lady beetle. This is one of the most variable species in the world, with an exceptionally wide range of colour forms. [ 2 ]
Common names for Anoplophora glabripennis in Asia are the starry sky beetle, basicosta white-spotted longicorn beetle, or smooth shoulder-longicorn, and it is called the Asian long-horned beetle (ALB) in North America. [2] Adults are very large insects with bodies ranging from 1.7 to 3.9 cm (0.67 to 1.54 in) in length and antennae which can be ...
As of 2015, just nine western states of the United States were considered free of Japanese beetles. [4] These beetles have been detected in airports on the west coast of the United States since the 1940s. Only three were found in Washington State in 2020, but from late June to September 3, 2021, there were over 20,000 found in Grandview alone. [6]
The Asian giant hornet is intensely predatory; it hunts medium- to large-sized insects, such as bees, [35] [89] other hornet and wasp species, beetles, hornworms, [90] and mantises. The latter are favored targets in late summer and fall. Large insects such as mantises are key protein sources to feed queen and drone larvae.
Every North American ash species has susceptibility to emerald ash borer, as North American species planted in China also have high mortality from infestations, but some Asian ash species are resistant, including F. baroniana, F. chinensis, F. floribunda, F. mandshurica, and F. platypoda. [30] [31] [32]
Even today, the insect is still listed as one of the 100 most economically-devastating invasive species to Japan by the Ecological Society of Japan. The English name "oriental chinch bug" derives from the insect's visual similarity to the "true chinch bug" ( Blissus leucopterus ) found in North America, which is likewise a major agricultural ...
This is a list of invasive species in North America.A species is regarded as invasive if it has been introduced by human action to a location, area, or region where it did not previously occur naturally (i.e., is not a native species), becomes capable of establishing a breeding population in the new location without further intervention by humans, and becomes a pest in the new location ...