BMSB predator wasp found in Maryland 👍

General Fruit Growing
#1

Good news, the BMSB wasp predator T. japonicas has been found in the wild in Maryland.

http://www.stopbmsb.org/stink-bug-bulletin/asian-wasp-enemy-of-stink-bugs-found-in-the-united-states/

This wasp is known to eat stinkbug eggs but has been in quarantine in the US. It didn’t break out of quarantine, it came via some other channel - its genetically different than the quarantined batch.

Now all I need to do is get a few in my orchard :smile:

Scott

PS there is an article in Good Fruit Grower this month about it which clued me on to this.

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#2

Hope they very quickly fly due west to Allegany county. I have to wonder if someone didn’t introduce them.

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#3

Yeah, they were found in Vancouver, WA also :slight_smile: The wasps parasitize the BMSB eggs.

#4

NOW FOUND IN NY HUDSON VALLEY

http://blogs.cornell.edu/jentsch/2016/09/19/bmsb-news-the-invasive-parasitic-wasp-trissolcus-japonicus-recently-found-in-new-york-state/

YEAH !!!

Mike

#5

Send them here! The damn bugs are crawling all over my house!

Do they prey on all kinds of stink bugs? Squash bugs?

#6

There are other wasps that parasitize native stink bugs.

#7

Picky!

#8

I had a stinkbug problem on my tomatoes this summer, but in mid August I found a swarm of tiny wasps in their place. So I am pretty sure there is some parasitical stinkbug wasp on my property now :+1: Hopefully the following summer I will have fewer of them. This year they were not bad except on a few pear varieties which took a lot of damage.