Damned Spotted Lantern Flies everywhere!

[skypilot]

Visiting friends in Berks Co. PA. Sitting on their deck and I see one of these things every 30 seconds or so. Been whacking them with my flip-flops. Got to get above and a bit IN FRONT of them in order to not miss. They are fast but it seems that they can't jump backwards or sideways.

[getagrip_already]

1. descriptions of the damage they do are chilling.....

People talk about them being so thick on trees you feel like its raining standing underneath them. It's scat of course....

They suck the juices out of emerging growth, eventually killing whatever plant or tree they engorge on. They have no known predators, so when they move in, they move in by the millions.

You must just be on the edge of their range.

There is a wasp that will eat them and keep them in check, but would we be trading one invasive pest for another?

[skypilot]

3. Where I am visiting...

...is pretty rural. Lots of trees and some woods by my friends' property. But I also see them quite a bit in the city.

[hlthe2b]

2. Those are nasty invasive bugs.. I see they are in VA now too. I'm usually a "live & Let Live" kinda

person when it comes to most bugs, but stomp the hell out of those!

[skypilot]

4. Same here.

Glad I found a technique that seems to work. I hate it when they get away from me.

[LunaSea]

5. I have the same feelings about

the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
They don't belong here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_marmorated_stink_bug

[Codeine]

11. That's me and Argentine ants.

Invasive little shits.

[EllieBC]

15. Oh those were all over at my mom's home!

Upstate NY. Those little bastards are everywhere. They make me sick!

[Renew Deal]

6. You can report them

https://extension.psu.edu/spotted-lanternfly

I saw one or two last year in Media, PA and reported them on that website. I wasn't aware of the issue until I saw a billboard that day.

[skypilot]

7. Thanks for this info.

Did not know that the problem started in Berks Co. That is where I am right now. Will share that link with my friends.

[sl8]

8. "Teen devises clever trap for spotted lanternflies"

Teen devises clever trap for spotted lanternflies
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69News WFMZ-TV
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Published on Sep 25, 2019

Original airdate: 9/24/2019 | We stomp them, and spray them, but a Montgomery County teen might have a better plan for getting rid of those nasty spotted lanternflies.

Rachel Bergey, 14, started caring because they were hogging up the tree she likes to climb.

Then she found out she might not ever be able to climb her tree anymore if the spotted lanternfly did it what it does and kills trees.

So she got to work. When the bugs start crawling up the tree they hit the foil ring. They die about 24 hours later. She killed 1,200 of them in two weeks with just two traps.

Bergey is headed to Washington D.C. next month. She's one of 30 middle schoolers competing in a national science competition.

View the full story at WFMZ.com:
https://www.wfmz.com/news/southeaster...

[cayugafalls]

9. What an amazing young woman!

Wow, that is a great trap.

[eleny]

10. I just saw one one a rose when I was hunting Japanese Beetles this morning

So I pushed it into the can of soapy water to die with the beetles. Thanks for the heads up!

[tavernier]

12. She better get a patent before some trump

decides it’s their property.

[dixiegrrrrl]

17. Exactly what I was thinking. n/t

[SharonClark]

13. Thanks for the heads up.

Never heard of them because they haven’t reached Iowa as they move west.

We tracked Japanese Beetles and Emerald Ash Bore as they moved west and decimated our plants and trees but these Spotted Lanternflies sound super annoying.

[skypilot]

14. Annoying and evil-looking.

If you ever have occasion to look one in the face they have bright red eyes (or two red spots on either side of their face that look like eyes). I swear to God they look sinister as hell.

[nattyice]

16. Seen a ton in South Jersey as well

[DeminPennswoods]

18. PSA: PA Dept of Conservation, Natural Resources

is asking Pennsylvanians to kill the spotted lantern fly, then report the location.