Pest Profile

Brown stink bug
Euschistus heros
  • Brown stink bug adult
  • Brown stink bug adult
  • Immature brown stink bug
  • Immature brown stink bug

Pest Description

Stink bugs are usually only damaging in south-central, central and southeast Kansas. Shrunken and deformed seeds can result from pod feeding. Controls should be applied when 10 bugs per 30 feet of row are found.

Source of information

https://www.bookstore.ksre.ksu.edu/pubs/Mf743.pdf

Pest photo source

Brian McCornack, Wendy Johnson, KSU Entomology