Yet another invasive insect.
I've written before about the impact of the Emerald Ash Borer on forests in southwestern Ohio. My introduction to the pest I'm profiling this time came last summer when I found my tomato, pumpkin, cucumber, acorn squash, watermelon, and summer squash vines infested with a strange brown bug with an oddly shaped abdomen: Halyomorpha halys (Stål), the brown mamorated stink bug. Picture from http://www.stopbmsb.org/stopBMSB/assets/Image/BMSB-on-bark-istock350w.png