Brown widow egg sac

And the brown widow too, though luckily I didn't know this until after I had taken the photo.

More information here at BugGuide.net and here from the CISR in Riverside.

Brown marmorated stink bug

We caught this in the house this afternoon -- identified it as a brown marmorated stink bug (Halyomorpha halys). Yuck.

Apparently this bug, accidentally imported from Asia in the 1990s, is now a serious pest, with a website with some pretty big names attached to it dedicated to controlling it. More advice from Penn State is found here.  The bugs feed on soft-skinned fruits such as apples, peaches, grapes, etc. disfiguring the crops and making them unsellable, and the stinky secretion they produce when threatened can cause allergic reactions in humans.