Joseph Farmer owns Lucky Clover Farm in eastern Kentucky and it’s like he was destined for this job.
Saturday, he was selling his products in Louisville at the Paristown Garden Show.
One of the crops he grows is tomatoes. And he’s seen some unwanted and invasive creatures: stink bugs.
“They’ll go through all my tomatoes and put a little hole in them and I won’t see it or know it until my tomatoes turn ripe and then they have these little white dots all over them,” Farmer said.
Though these excited insects aren’t truly damaging the crop, Farmer said it does decrease their quality.
“It’s nothing poisonous or hurt the fruit, it just doesn’t make it that ‘A’ quality or as pretty as other ones,” Farmer said.
But invasive bugs are not the only species gardeners should be looking out for.
Source: spectrumnews1.com
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Categories: Kentucky, Crops