Max Barclay Explains
Max Barclay is the expert who backtracked the bug’s origins. Now, he thinks he knows how it got to the US through many countries. He works on the Coleoptera collection within the National History Museum, and he believes it first went to the United Kingdom.
Predicted Arrival for 2014
Barclay said in 2014 that he believed the brown marmorated stink bug would end up traveling east to Britain, and that happened! It was first spotted in 2020 within the gardens of the Natural History Museum.