Max Barclay Explains
Max Barclay backtracked the bug’s origins, believing he understands how it moved through various countries to end up in the US. The expert works on the Coleoptera collection in the National History Museum and says it went to the UK first!
Prediction of Another Arrival in 2014
Barclay said in 2014 that he believed the brown marmorated stink bug could move into Britain, and he was correct! It was then spotted in the gardens of the Natural History Museum in 2020.
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