"Would you like my hat " Image credit:Flickr,graftedno1
The net of existence is really a question. Following a first US landing, in Allentown PA, of the effective breeding population of Chinese Stink Bugs, US Mid-Atlantic states were swarming using the damn things (see photo below). China Stinkers don't bite but they're large and medieval searching and, when bothered or squashed they exude a horrid smell.
Houses of wealthy and poor alike were plagued day and evening, upstairs and lower, for 3 years running. Than the summer time, all of a sudden, they nearly disappeared in the western and surrounding suburbs of Philadelphia. I believe I understand a minumum of one reason there have been less Chinese Stink Bugs this season: wolf bots, such as the one pictured above, ate them.
Here is a photo of the items the stinkers appeared as if at the end of summer time of 2009. It was quite a typical sight at the end of fall that year and then. Once the weather increased awesome, the buggers came inside and adopted us in to the shower and mattress.
Chinese stink bugs drawing juices from the large Hubbard squash. Photo by John Laumer.
We'd an remarkable quantity of rain days this season, assigned by two days of steady precipitation triggered by Hurricane Irene. Due to the continual moisture, flying bugs also were contained in high densities, which brought to plenty of large bots. Through the finish of August, every downstairs window of the house was webbed, having a large juicy spider presented in the heart of each.
Returning to early summer time, my yard and garden and each other one around were moving with huge wolf bots - some I am certain were the large Carolina wolf, Hogna carolinensis. . . Previously I'd see maybe a couple of of those monsters every year. This season I saw dozens every single day, some noticeably pouncing around the stinkers as evening came on.
Go get Them boys.
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