Jim Birkholz, owner of Pleasant Valley Orchard, begins our Spring Series with a class on pruning fruit trees and another on insects and diseases of fruit trees.  Jim brought me back information when he was at the Fruit Growers Conference concerning a new threat to fruits and vegetables.

The brown Marmorated stink bug  (BMSB) is another gift from Japan, Korea, and China.  The word marmorated refers to its marble-like color.  It is also called the yellow-brown or East Asian stink bug.  It was first found in the U.S. in 2001, in Pennsylvania and is moving west.  Established populations have been found in Oregon and California but that could be from hitchhiking on produce.

  
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