Student deploys tiny, feisty Samurai wasps to fight stink bug invader

August 10, 2018

His Toyota Prius loaded with tiny wasps, Josh Milnes is about to make life very difficult for an invasive stink bug threatening Washington fruit growers. “The brown marmorated stink bug isn’t supposed to be in Washington,” explains Milnes, entomology student at the WSU Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center in Wenatchee. Native to eastern […]

Red-shirted Milnes, in hat, releases the wasp from a container under a canopy of leafy branches.

Stink bugs invade more counties, more homes in Washington state

October 18, 2016

A recent upsurge of dirty, rotten, no-good brown marmorated stink bugs in the Pacific Northwest has WSU researchers scrambling to keep the insect’s numbers from exploding.