BMSB Damage Gallery
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- Gumming and shriveling of almonds due to BMSB damage.
- By Jhalendra Rijal
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- Gumming of almonds due to BMSB damage.
- By Jhalendra Rijal
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- BMSB feeding damage to almond.
- By Jhalendra Rijal
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- Apple with stylet insertion point.
- By Tracy Leskey and Torri Hancock.
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- Apple with stylet insertion point (close-up).
- By Tracy Leskey and Torri Hancock.
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- Apple with stylet sheath (early season).
- By Tracy Leskey and Torri Hancock.
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- Apple with stylet sheath (mid-season).
- By Tracy Leskey and Torri Hancock.
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- Apple with discolored depressions.
- By Tracy Leskey and Torri Hancock.
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- Apple with internal necrosis.
- By Tracy Leskey and Torri Hancock.
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- Apple with BMSB injury (left) versus bitter pit (right).
- By Tracy Leskey and Torri Hancock.
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- BMSB damage in blueberry.
- By Cesar Rodriguez-Saona and Doug Pfeiffer.
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- Bosc pear.
- By Yan Wang.
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- Bosc pear with internal damage.
- By Yan Wang.
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- Bosc pear damage.
- By Yan Wang.
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- Bosc pear with BMSB injury (left) versus cork spots (right).
- By Yan Wang.
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- Cherry with adult BMSB.
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- BMSB damage in cherry.
- By Peter Shearer.
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- BMSB damage in cherry.
- By Peter Shearer.
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- BMSB damage in corn.
- By Tom Kuhar.
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- BMSB on grapes.
- By Cesar Rodriguez-Saona and Doug Pfeiffer.
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- Distorted snap bean from BMSB damage.
- By Tom Kuhar.
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- BMSB-injured snap bean.
- By Tom Kuhar.
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- a. uninjured nut; b. blank nut; c. shriveled nut; d. corked nut.
- By Chris Hedstrom and Vaughn Walton.
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- Deformed okra pod due to BMSB feeding.
- By Galen Dively.
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- Feeding injury in peas.
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- Gummosis on young peaches.
- By Cesar Rodriguez-Saona.
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- Internal necrosis in young peaches.
- By Tracy Leskey.
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- Internal damage in peaches.
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- BMSB damage in pears.
- By Peter Shearer.
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- BMSB damage in pears.
- By Peter Shearer.
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- BMSB damage in pears.
- By Peter Shearer.
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- BMSB damage in pears.
- By Peter Shearer.
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- Feeding injury on pepper.
- By Tom Kuhar.
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- BMSB on raspberry.
- By Cesar Rodriguez-Saona and Doug Pfeiffer.
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- BMSB on serviceberry.
- By Cesar Rodriguez-Saona and Doug Pfeiffer.
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- Feeding injury on tomato.
- By Tom Kuhar.
Notes
Brown marmorated stink bugs feed by inserting their stylets into the fruit, pods, buds, leaves, and stems of plants. Their injury can manifest itself in different ways.
- In peppers and tomatoes, feeding on the fruit will produce characteristic white or yellow scars on the skin where the feeding stylets were inserted, or sunken in areas from the internal fruit tissue collapsing below.
- In corn, the feeding stylets of BMSB nymphs and adults are inserted through the husk and pierce the tender kernels, which may cause them to become aborted, collapsed or discolored.
- Feeding injury to beans may result in scarred, faded out sunken areas, as well as deformed pods, which also occurs in okra.
- In blueberry, the sugar levels are lower in BMSB-damaged fruit (Wiman et al. 2015).
- In hazelnut, blanks are found predominantly early, and corky tissue is found later in the growing season (Hedstrom et al. 2014).