Baltimore Sun endorses crushing stink bug eggs
The stink bug infestation in Maryland -- damaging crops and annoying homeowners -- has caught the attention of my colleagues in the editorial department of The Baltimore Sun and they are outraged -- outraged, I say!
Seriously, The Sun editorial writers make the excellent point that while we wait for the USDA to come up with a way to combat the stink bug, we are on our own and one of the best ways it to search for egg sacks on its favorite plants -- tomatoes, peppers, squash, fruit trees -- and crush them. The crushed eggs don't smell nearly as bad as the crushed stink bugs do, hence the name.
Stink bugs are such a scourge that they are now infested even the most cerebral sections of a newspaper....
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The eggs have already hatched in Westminster. I found juvenile stink bugs on sun flowers, butterfly bushes and hibiscus . I read that the EPA approved use of dinotefuran Is toxic to honey bees. We have someone coming to spray, but we need to know if this chemical is approved for yard usage. I do not want to spray if this is true.
I would check with the University of Maryland Extension Home and Garden Information Center before I do anything! -- Susan
Posted by: Joybird | August 2, 2011 4:59 PM