Enter our apartments and destroy everything in front of him.

As Dr. Ivan Aleksić, a biologist at the Institute for Biocides and Medical Ecology, explains, this is an invasive species, which we call the marble stink bug.

– This species that appears in our country is an invasive species from Southeast Asia and has been spreading throughout Europe for ten years. I guess it’s the same species, only we don’t have a domesticated name, while the Croats call her stinky Greta – she says at the beginning of the conversation.

As you said, in our country the name of green stink bugs is stinky Martin, as they are called in Croatia.

Are you afraid of bed bugs?

– Stinky Martin is this domestic green bug that has lived in our country for a long time, and this other invasive species has spread across Europe for the last ten years – Aleksić explains.

The stink greta or marble stink bug, as we call it in Serbia, is an agricultural pest and, as our interlocutor says, it is interesting for farmers, foresters and others.

As you said, it feeds on more than 100 plants, but it is harmless to humans, it does not transmit any infectious diseases, so it is not interesting from a health point of view.

Dr. Aleksić also explained how this species differs from the “domestic” bed bug.

– It differs in that it has white spots on the sides and on the antennas, it is a little larger than ours and there are not too many natural enemies – explains our interlocutor.

This climate suits the stinky Greta and that is why it has spread across Europe and Serbia.

Both Stinky Martin and Stinky Greta like warm weather, and at this time when temperatures drop, they go looking for a warm place to shelter and spend the winter more quiet, so they move into apartments.

According to experts, the characteristic thing for them is that in case they feel attacked, if you squeeze them and squeeze them a little harder, they emit a characteristic and very unpleasant smell.