Where the Kudzu Bugs Went...

The last few days I've been monitoring "Kudzu Con," i.e. the congregation of kudzu bugs (Megacopta cribraria) in our backyard. Today we discovered that they had left their usual meeting place, the white-painted gutter drains. We didn't know where they had gone until my mom stumbled upon a whole host of them clustering around the wisteria vines like berries: