Posts Tagged ‘stink bugs’

As the weather grows colder, many insects will enter people’s homes in search of warmth and shelter. A new pest that could enter homes this winter is the kudzu bug. A native of East Asia, the bug was first found on kudzu plants in north central Georgia in 2009. At first, it was thought to…

In October 2009, large aggregations of an insect (M. cribraria) commonly referred to as the kudzu bug, bean plataspid, lablab bug, or globular stink bug, were discovered on the exterior of houses in nine northeast Georgia counties. By September 2010 the insect was confirmed in more than 60 north and central Georgia counties as well…