Max Barclay Explains the Bug’s Travel
Max Barclay is an expert who backtracked the bug’s origins. He thinks he knows how it got through multiple countries to end up in the US. He works on the Coleoptera collection at the National History Museum and believes the bug arrived in the United Kingdom first.
Predictions of Another Arrival for 2014
In 2014, Max Barclay claimed to feel that the brown marmorated stink bug was moving east to Britain, and he was right. The bug was spotted initially in 2020 in the gardens of the Natural History Museum.