They're ugly, stinky and a flat-out pain to deal with.

The shield-shaped pests commonly known as stink bugs are wreaking havoc here again.

After......

Trendspotting. Our mailbox reveals what seed companies think we'll want this year. Their idea of the latest trends: dark purple and near-black foliage......

Correction Aug. 10, 2011 — The story below about a Columbia man who makes stink bug traps included an incorrect scientific name for the pest. Th......

 

Paul Hagenberger enjoys his morning rituals.
He reads the paper front to back — a four-hour task — and eats a steaming hot bowl ......

Alden Doug Smith of Rawlinsville was fed up.

What he estimated at more than 1,000 stink bugs had taken over the unfinished second-floor storage are......

Sometimes, some of the most interesting stuff I get comes AFTER I've written a column or a feature story.

Readers also send me a steady stream of s......

Brown marmorated stink bugs entered the United States about 12 years ago — around Allentown — but they weren't expected to become a nuisan......