Matt Buffington, a research entomologist at theUS Department of Agriculture (USDA), says the stink bugs arrived in theUS sometime betweenthe late 1990s and 2003 to find an "enemy-free space".
But the custodian of the adjacent village church insisted we squeeze our vans in a tiny spacebetweenthe church and his family home, so they could watch over us.
TheUSspace agency had identified two "gap fillers" that were sticking out between heatshield tiles near Discovery's nose section, each by less than 3cm (1.2in).