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Crop-eating stink bugs a new menace

Michelle Villareal Caller-Times (Corpus Christi, Texas)

Last updated Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 4:58pm

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas -- A northern species of stink bugs that can harm crops has made its first Texas appearance, but there isn't an immediate threat to agriculture, experts said.

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A big stink over an invasion of the tiny bugs

Richard Simon Los Angeles Times

Last updated Tuesday, August 2, 2011 - 9:13am

KEARNEYSVILLE, W.Va. -- Tracy Leskey's job stinks.

Whether working at her Department of Agriculture lab, in orchards or at home, she's a leader of a kind of federal SWAT team fighting what a rural Maryland congressman calls the "bug from hell," the brown marmorated stink bug that is all the buzz in the mid-Atlantic region.

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