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[Road's End Farm <organic87@frontiernet.net>]

On Mar 4, 2011, at 4:51 PM, Alan Haigh wrote:

> The brown marmorated stink bug really has me worried.   [ . . . ]
> Sure hope the early reports are overly alarmist and either an  
> affective
> predator emerges of some reasonable management strategy is devised.


I hope so too.

There may be only one generation a year as far north as NY State,  
which should help a little; though that won't be much help for those  
further south; it can apparently produce several generations a year in  
parts of China where the weather is warm enough. (see the sites I  
linked to in my other email on this.)


-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale