stinkbugs

I’m sitting on my back porch watching three stinkbugs climb up my screen.  (Sigh)  This must mark the beginning of the fall pilgrimage when stinkbugs that have summered over in the grounds outdoors start moving into our comfortable homes to winter over with us, unwelcome guests.  But this year I have found a new line of defense against the stinkers:  SPIDEY! Spidey is a spider that moved into my screened porch last spring.  I noticed Spidey one day with a tight grasp on a stinkbug to that stinkbug’s demise.  I had understood stinkbugs to be an alien species with no natural predators in the area, which allows them to thrive (to our great annoyance). We watch, helpless beyond what our local pest control experts can advise. Stinkbugs are stowaways from Asia…