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  • April 1st 2012 Issue
  • Story by Geraldine Warner
  • Pests sneak into U.K.

    Two new pests—the brown marmorated stinkbug and spotted wing drosophila—have snuck into the United Kingdom but are not yet established there. Two adult brown marmorated stinkbugs were intercepted at a U.K. airport in 2010 in passenger luggage on a flight from the United States, according to a report in the January edition of the British fruit trade magazine The Fruit Grower. The stinkbug was found in Switzerland as early as 2007. Chris Malumphy, senior entomologist at the U.K.’s Food and Environmental Research Agency, says in the article that although the stinkbug could become established there, it would probably be much […]

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