The Brown Marmorated Stink Bug, Halyomorpha Halys, the bug that  has become 
such a nuisance locally, has been around the US for only about ten  years.  
It is native to China, Japan and Korea.  
 
The primary predator in their native lands is a parasitic wasp that is  
being considered for introduction into the US.  Here, a few praying  mantises 
and spiders will take this bug, but little else.  There are no  known avian 
predators listed.  
 
When you have hundreds inside your house -- as we here -- they are  hard to 
see as attractive any more than cockroaches would be.
 
Bob Mumford
Darnestown

 
 
In a message dated 6/5/2011 1:06:51 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
 writes:

These  stink bug have been around for a while and while an agricultural and 
household  pest they are in their way attractive.
They have these extraordinary  carbuncular simple eyes. BTW Maryland birds 
probably eat  them.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/birdsnaca/5800780012/in/photostream/

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