#3974 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects

Brown Marmorated Stink Bug

🇳🇱 Bruingemarmerde schildwants ·Halyomorpha halys

🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Konrad Zobel · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2. © Kimberly · CC BY 4.0
3. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Judy Gallagher · CC BY-SA 4.0
5. © Denise Williams · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Enschede, Varviksingel, 7512 HK Enschede, Netherlands:© nenlnatureid01 · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Nieuw-Lekkerland, 2957 CP Nieuw-Lekkerland, Netherlands:© selien · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Broekkant, Malden, Gelderland, NL:© hwvst · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Hazenkamp, Nijmegen, Nederland:© Rob C. H. M. Oudejans · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Zuid-Holland, NL:© aluecht · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The brown marmorated stink bug ( Halyomorpha halys ) is an insect in the family Pentatomidae, native to China, Japan, the Korean Peninsula, and Taiwan. In September 1998 it was collected in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where it is believed to have been accidentally introduced. The nymphs and adults of the brown marmorated stink bug feed on over 100 species of plants, including many agricultural crops, and by 2010–11 had become a season-long pest in orchards in the Eastern United...

base stats

NL sightings 276iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 135,217iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

Spotted 276 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #33 most seen of the bugs, crickets & other insects in NL.
135,217 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Carl Stål in 1855 (171 years ago).