This little guy is from the Pentatomidae family, with "penta" meaning five and "tomos" meaning sections (thank you Wikipedia) because its antennae have five segments. Its body is usually shield-shaped (so it's sometimes called a shield bug) and it earned its stink bug name because it can squirt stinky stuff when it is disturbed.
I can totally picture an upcoming science lesson -- How can you make a stink bug squirt?
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