Comments on: Why do stink bugs stink?

By: rinsider

rinsider — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:04:08 +0000

[...] It’s not called a stink bug without reason. When a stink bug feels threatened or is injured, it automatically releases a pungent odour. Here’s a post on Why Stink Bugs Stink. [...]

By: y

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 05:59:28 +0000

bugs are like totally EWWWWW
and a stink bug stinks right? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
but a find this website very very interesting!!!!!!
is it poisionous

By: greg

greg — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 20:49:21 +0000

i was wondering if a stink bug is posionous in any way? due to my mother eating one in her soulvaki..the question arose…

By: Deborah Byrd

Deborah Byrd — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 21:29:36 +0000

Quentin, thank you for letting us know! I went back through this script and changed all our “stinkbugs” to true-bug “stink bugs.” We hope you’ll come back often and help keep us accurate!

By: Quentin Wheeler

Quentin Wheeler — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 21:20:33 +0000

While common names are not regulated like scientific names, entomologists have long maintained a useful convention. If a bug is a true bug (Hemiptera) the common name is two words: stink bug. Thus clown or Eleodes beetles are known instead as stinkbugs since they are not bugs but Coleoptera. The same is true with true flies (house fly) vs. dragonfly or butterfly, which are not Diptera. A trivial point I confess, but Earth & Sky is a respected source of information and should promote not detract from this old tradition.