Stink bug problem

[pickinduck]

Last year there was a big stink bug problem. It was much worse in the Pittsburgh area then here where I am. I thought that the winter put an end to the stink bug problem but when I was talking with my sister on the phone the other day she said they are still having a problem with them. She said they destroyed a large part of the corn crop around Pittsburgh. She also told me that she heard that the flowers that come here from other countries like tulips are infested with them.
I found a very small strange dead fly on our kitchen table the other night.

[sherlew (Ret)]

Imports should be inspected better. Wonder what it'll take before there's any improvement. What did the fly look like?

[pickinduck]

Feb 14, 2011 20:42:23 GMT -6 sherlew (Ret) said:

What did the fly look like?

I was much smaller the a house fly but bigger then a gnat (we call them fruit flies) that are around my mother's bananas. It looked kind of like a fly but it was all black even the wings.

[sherlew (Ret)]

Sounds like an exotic fruit fly:

www.encyclopedia.com/topic/fruit_fly.aspx