SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A bug that attacks fruit crops and has caused major damage in the eastern United States has shown up this month in the Oregon towns Hood River and Rogue River, both in Orchard County.

The brown marmorated stink bug has been in the United States since the 1990s and in Oregon since 2004. But the latest reports are worrisome because the bugs are now near famous cherry, apple and pear crops in the Columbia Gorge and Southern Oregon, according to the agricultural publication the Capital Press (http://bit.ly/L12VOb ).