For brown marmorated stinkbugs, the tree of heaven appears to be just that—a heavenly place to live. “They can live there and rear their young there—they have absolutely no incentive to go anywhere else,” says Tim ­Lampasona, a research assistant at Cornell University’s Hudson Valley Laboratory in Highland, New York. ­Lampasona works in the entomology lab of Peter Jentsch, and he recently spoke to members of the International Fruit Tree Association during a visit to the lab. Researchers at the lab now think that tree of heaven may be a much-preferred host of brown marmorated stinkbug. So, why do the stinkbugs […]