Randall Toby Schuh, an entomologist, leans over a tangle of wildberry vines. There, this insect scientist, from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, spies his research subjects: green stinkbugs clinging to the berries.
What are these insects up to? Unfortunately for the fruit, these shield-shaped scuttlers are really hungry. With a quick punch of their strawlike mouthparts, the bugs pierce the fruit's protective skin. Then, they slurp up the berry's nutritious ...