We may have survived unusually cold temperatures this winter, but luckily most of D.C.’s stink bug population might not have.

One more bit of horrible news from this summer’s record-setting heat: The stink bug population is on the rise.

Earlier today we told you some of the effects of this unseasonable warm spell. But one other, more unseemly upshot of this weather is burrowing up from the ground: Stink bugs. Gross.

Photo by Sh4rp_i. Stink bugs are much maligned, pestering bugs that can invade houses – showing up everywhere and smelling quite foul after they die. However, while we might find stink bugs to be an annoyance, they are quite the problem for area farmers. Stink bugs have destroyed area apple and peach crops. Now scientists have are pushing an insecticide that seven states, including Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware, could use to fight the little…