Perdue University Extension Brown marmorated stinkbug, an invasive insect from Asia, swept over the Mid-Atlantic states’ fruit crops like a tsunami in the fall of 2010, causing millions of dollars in damage to peaches and apples and leaving growers worried that it might be worse the next year. It wasn’t. In 2011, the damage was less, leaving growers unsure why that was and shifting their concern to the size of the next wave, coming this fall. “So far this year, we have not seen ­significant problems in tree fruit,” said Tracy Leskey, leader of the USDA’s brown ­marmorated stinkbug project […]