Roscoe, J. (2017, March 2). A warmer winter and earlier spring could mean more invasive bugs for Maryland. Retrieved March 11, 2017, from http://www.dbknews.com/2017/03/03/warm- winter-invasive-species-maryland/

This article talks about how rising temperatures in winter months in Maryland allow invasive insects such as the stink bug to thrive, as opposed to previous cold winters when the single digit temperatures would kill the insects before they could repopulate in the spring and summer. However, for the third consecutive year, the temperatures in Maryland have rarely dropped into

single digits, which has allowed invasive insects, mainly the stinkbug, to continue to love throughout the winter. This does not allow the environment, such as certain crops or fruits, to have a period in which they are undisturbed by invasive insects, which can affect the crops.

I thought that this article was interesting because it tied two aspects of the environment into one: invasive species and climate change. The annual increasing temperatures, even in the winter months, have effected the environment in the aspect that the warmer temperatures allow the invasive species to harm the environment year round. This ties into global warming and really gave me the perspective that all aspects of the environment are connected, there is not any part that is more influential than another.