Summary: The objectives of this project were: 1. Evaluate systems of monitoring stink bugs in orchards (border or internal) that predict arrival of immigrants in late summer and/or occurrence of new adults in the orchard ground cover. 2. Determine the suitability of orchard cover crop plants as hosts that will mature stink bugs. 3. Determine if control programs directed at orchard cover crops would be a practical management strategy for stink bugs without disrupting integrated mite management. 4. Implement a border management program with combinations of aggregation pheromone, attractive plants and feeding stimulants. 5. Determine the potential for attracting stink bugs away from orchards to “trap crops” as a means of reducing orchard invasion or killing stink bugs prior to orchard invasion. 6. Evaluate new candidate pesticides as controls for stink bugs.
