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By ChefDean
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Holy cow! I've seen others post about stinkbugs vs cp's, specifically about how the stinkbugs seem to kill the leaf they get trapped in/on, but I have never seen it myself.
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Literally, less than 6 hours ago this was a healthy Albino Cape leaf. I fed it a small stinkbug, and this is the result.
You can see the leaf has browned, and will likely die, and, to mash my taters, the danged bug escaped. Stinkbugs will now be ground into a paste under my boot rather than fed to my plants.
Live and learn baby, live and learn.
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By optique
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I am guessing the stink is some chemical that is bad for predators. Get to the choppa
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