Max Barclay Explains the Bug’s Travel
Max Barclay is a bug expert who investigated the issue’s origins. He works on the National History Museum’s Coleoptera collection and believes the beetle initially came in the UK. He believes he knows how it traveled through various countries to arrive in the United States.
Predictions of Another Arrival for 2014
Max Barclay predicted that the brown marmorated stink bug would move east to Britain in 2014, and he was correct. The bug was first discovered in the gardens of the Natural History Museum in 2020.