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Biology, ecology, and management of brown marmorated stink bug in specialty crops. Last updated on January 16, 2024. Brown marmorated stink bugs cause plant damage and are a nuisance to people around homes. Learn more about stink bugs and their control.
Preventing your home from being invaded by brown marmorated stink bugs in the first place can be tricky. Researchers at Virginia Tech have found that these insects can squeeze themselves through gaps as small as three to seven millimeters.
The Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (BMSB) is a significant nuisance for homeowners and can be devasting for farmers. Learn how to identify BMSB and how to report a sighting of BMSB (in all U.S. states/territories and several countries).
Brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB) is an invasive bug that is a serious pest of fruit, vegetable, and other crops. It also becomes a nuisance pest of homes as it is attracted to the outside of houses on warm fall days in search of protected, overwintering sites and can enter houses in large numbers.
The brown marmorated stink bug is a sucking insect (like all Hemiptera or "true bugs") that uses its proboscis to pierce the host plant to feed. This feeding results, in part, in the formation of dimpled or necrotic areas on the outer surface of fruits, leaf stippling, seed loss, and possible transmission of plant pathogens .
The situation: The brown marmorated stink bug is a highly polyphagous insect that is native to Eastern Asia. The pest status of this insect stems from feeding damage caused on a wide range of vegetable crops, fruit trees, and ornamentals.
Brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB) is an invasive species. They feed on approximately 200 different plant species, including many fruits, vegetables and row crops. They spend the winter in buildings, including homes in urban areas.
Brown marmorated stink bugs are pests of fruiting plants, vegetables, and field crops. They tend to migrate into agricultural crops from overwintering locations, and infestations in adjacent crops can also be a source after harvest.
Cite. Permissions. Share. Abstract. Brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys Stål, is an invasive, herbivorous insect species that was accidentally introduced to the United States from Asia. First discovered in Allentown, PA, in 1996, H. halys has now been reported from at least 40 states in the United States.
The brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB) is a 0.5- by 0.625-inch shield-shaped insect that uses its piercing mouthparts to suck plant juices from fruits, seed pods and nuts on a wide variety of wild and cultivated plants. It was accidentally brought to North America from Asia sometime before 1996 and was first detected in Michigan in 2010.