Do you know what this is? Of course you do although my dad and I had to look it up. I found it outside while I was investigating chlorophyll discrepancies amongst our dicotyledons. It is a "Brown Marmorated Stink Bug." It is a pest from Asia and the nuts on the East and West coast inadvertently brought it in years ago so the story goes. Anyway, it is a pest to a large variety of fruit-bearing trees and plants and leaves circular damaged areas on the leaves. So once we realized this and my dad thought of the sizable portion of fruit that he loses each year and the torment his trees take when not in season (because of this hell-hole sun-infested place we live in), he told me to kill it. However I decided it was best to keep it and so brought in an old 35 mm film container my dad gave me and we placed it in there with a drop of benzene. This way we can let it suffocate and preserve it in there for future days when we want to remember what exactly it looks like in our future pursuits to kill its relations.
So if you see them in your yard take them out too. But don't use benzene unless you want to dissolve whatever they are sitting on or are just plain mean like my cold-hearted dad. Smash them with your finger, but then wash it because they have a strange smell that reminds me of smells that lingered around me when I was a kid.
--Derek
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