These are all over our garden greens. The feelers are black & white. It "appears" to have 2 white eyes but I think they are just more spots. This one is shown on back stalk of brussel sprouts plants. I also found these eggs but not sure if they belong to this bug.
Harlequin bugs
AMAZING! Thank you so much and also for being so fast! Wow. Now I don't want to eat ANY greens unless I check them myself! I thought the eggs were very unique and odd. Thanks again~
green33, can I make up a homemade solution to kill them?
I don't use insecticides on food crops. Anything that will kill the bad stink bugs will also kill the beneficial ones. I can only recommend that you can hand pick the bugs and squash the eggs whenever you find them. But remember, they stink.
I read of one man who used a hand-held vacuum which he retrofitted with a small nozzle and he just vacuumed up the bugs and emptied them into a pail of soapy water. (Sounds like something the kids would enjoy helping with.
Here is one link which offers other ideas:
http://www.toxicfreenc.org/organicgardening/stink_bugs.html
liquid castile soap and water will kill them...don't spray on bees though. it will smother all bugs, good and bad but is safe for humans to ingest.
