Leave my Fried Green Tomatoes alone! Are they eating yours too? Stink Bugs ;0(

You can run AND you can hide!

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These are certainly quick little guys as well as destructive. Just when the tomato ripening has slowed and thoughts are on having some fried green tomatoes..... they seem to read your mind and move right in with stink bug reinforcements!
Learn more about these little insect critters and other crop pests via the University of Kentucky Entomology Department: http://www.ca.uky.edu/entomology/entfacts/ef313.asp
Photos by Carolyn Hietala http://carolynhietalapaintings.blogspot.com/