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Mid-Atlantic area fruit and vegetable growers who have the full range of control options at their disposal are having trouble containing the brown marmorated stinkbug. So imagine how hard it must be for organic growers, with their limited arsenal of insecticides… Organic management of BMSB was one of the “current issues in organic fruit production” that were addressed during the Great Lakes Fruit, Vegetable, and Farm Market Expo in Michigan… Dr. Anne Nielsen, one of the first to study BMSB when it was found in the East, said organic growers would have to rely on integrating multiple methods such as natural enemies, cultural management, and/or habitat manipulation for control… Nielsen was a graduate student at Rutgers University in New Jersey when the stinkbug was first found. She did postdoctorate work at Michigan State University and is now back at Rutgers, still working with the stinky insect that smells, she says, like a combination of cilantro and dirty socks.