nature blurb....stink bug

I've seen quite a few of these around in the last few weeks so I was wondering what's up with these: From Boston. com, "They don't cause any damage, they don't transmit disease, they just want to come in from the cold...We get a lot of calls about them this time of year," said Brian Farrell, an entomologist at Harvard University. "They're just looking for places to overwinter."If they do get inside, Farrell said, "they're doomed. Houses are deserts with a couple percent humidity. They just dry out...At this time of year...not looking for mates, so you don't need to worry about hosting fetid families..." They emit a oderous secretion from thorax glands when scared or squashed. It's been called bitter apple with hints of underripe banana peel. "Sniff one in cupped hands for the delicate scent of rancid, oily marzipan or moldy almond aroma," a naturalist suggested on a BBC website.