This species is widespread across the US and southern Canada and is considered to be common in Fontenelle Forest and Neale Woods. Photos A and B were taken in early September 2012.

This stink bug uses its sucking mouthparts to take fluids from a wide variety of plants. Barrel-shaped eggs are laid on the underside of leaves in clusters with tight rows; in early spring, overwintered adult females seek out suitable hosts and typically deposit their eggs on wild host plants. Often these overwintering populations are found along field borders, particularly along tree lines near their overwintering sites. Later-developing cultivated plants become more attractive when these initial wild hosts dry down, and their proximity allows easy access for stink bug colonization in crops; emerging nymphs are gregarious and remain on/near the egg mass, then begin to feed and disperse as they grow.