The stinkbug injects saliva into the fruit and then sucks out the juice, causing brown areas in the flesh that can resemble bitter pit. PHOTOS BY NIK WIMAN, OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY The brown marmorated stinkbug continues to spread, coming alarmingly close to commercial fruit-producing regions of the Pacific Northwest, and new research shows that it flies longer ­distances than previously suspected. The pest, which attacks a wide range of plants, was first seen in the United States in 1996 in northeast Pennsylvania, where it presumably arrived with goods imported from Asia. It then spread throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, where it […]