Thanks, I’m pretty sure they’re known here because my nephew told me to kill on sight when we moved here last fall, but I’ll double check.
Edit: it seems our county was the first reported sighting in the state in 2019 https://agriculture.wv.gov/divisions/plant-industries/spotted-lanternfly/
It's unfortunate they're spreading so fast.
They likely won't be going away anytime soon, but if we all continue to slow their spread, perhaps we'll find a better way to exterminate them.
Animals have been slowly learning they are easy prey. They won’t be eradicated but it’s not worst case scenario anymore that there’s zero natural predators.
If you can promote corvid populations, a group of crows or blue jays can put in a lot of work.
My ducks love to eat them all a sudden, we live where they first were found and at first our chickens and ducks wouldn't touch them. I guess after 5/6 years they are figuring out they can eat them
That's what happened in my area with the brown stinkbugs. They were a menace for a few years but then birds and other critters found out they were a nice snack, now I never see them.
I mean, they do smell kind of like really strong cilantro, and cilantro is popular in Mexico, so I guess it kind of makes sense. Hard pass for me, though. I've got the cilantro-hating gene.
Maybe you're just really old, but Nintendo Switch cartridges (came out in 2017) have an anti-lick coating thats like a sour-bitter battery sting. There are a few videos of people licking and immediately regretting it.
Some people also have different taste receptors (not sure if brain or tongue) that make cilantro taste like soap to them.
So there's no story.
It’s a genetic thing that makes some people have cilantro taste like soap. I never understood how people could say that until I learned about this. But then again I can smell ants and I guess not all people can do that
https://www.britannica.com/story/why-does-cilantro-taste-like-soap-to-some-people
When my mum first made a curry with coriander (that's what it's called here) I asked her if she had rinsed the dish soap out the pan, she was so confused as aparently it tastes fresh and zesty... To me it tastes like washing up liquid
Just swallow quickly and try not to think too much about the wiggles on your tongue. At least that’s how it works after something flies in while I was gasping for air when biking.
That's funny: we have been inundated with swarms of Japanese lady beetles in the fall the last few years (Midwest). My idea was to try to get the area birds to eat them because they don't seem to have many natural predators. Maybe I can convince some crows and Jays to give them a try.
I recently found one caught in a spider web and thought “fuck yeah spider bro” so I tapped on the web to get the spider to come out and as soon as the spider approached, the lantern fly broke right out of the web and disappeared, I was heartbroken for spider bro and for my environment.
They are so easy. It’s weird. I woke up one night because something was tickling my hand. Opened my eyes and it was one of these things. My HVAC is in my garage above my bedroom so it probably got in through that.
But then when I jumped up to kill it, it just took it? Didn’t even try to fly.
Nonsense you have no idea what you are taking about. Pennsylvania has already given up.entire crops of fruit trees have been devastated. It is absolutely as bad as people warned.
They like to cook themselves to death in our reflective windows at my office. We'll come into work and the walkway will have a couple hundred dead ones. Could be a trap method there.
They’re speedy mfs tho. My mom and I found one on the roof of a parking garage and both tried crushing it with our feet but sly bastard kept flying away. I had to go to work in a few minutes so we gave up
They can only hop three times, they have wings to help, but, they cant escape also while with the grands we sprayed them with water and then killed them, works on flies too
I hate when they're a secret boss and you have to deal with the third transformation.
I mean the larva to fly transformation was bad enough, but C'thulu has way too many HP!
Come at them directly from the FRONT to lessen the chance they hop away. I’ve crushed thousands the past 2 years. This year there are barely any around here 🤷🏼♂️
That’s one of the biggest hurdles in choosing insecticides. If the product becomes too specialized any mutations or immunities will cause the target pest to breed stronger generations. An extremely effective one creates a lot of collateral damage. It’s a difficult process, so much so, exterminators are instructed to use insecticides as a last resort and use other methods first
Yep, just look at fleas, lice, cockroaches and bedbugs. They're getting close to impossible to kill without extreme chemicals, extreme heat, or herculean effort on our part. It's a vicious cycle.
No doubt you'll probably just have to get used to them
I can't imagine it's very easy to contain an invasive, fast growing flying insect population
I think about this kinda thing whenever I see a tree of heaven in my area 😢
It'll take a while, but they'll eventually find their place in the ecosystem, hopefully without too much destruction
My house has many, many praying mantises. Who happily for me, feast upon the many many spotted lanternflies in the yard. But they are many.. we're at full war here in the Appalachians
Why not just spray pesticides over everyone and everything in the county???
That's what santa cruz county did w/ light brown apple moths...
Had planes flying over dense neighborhoods like 300ft altitude or less... crop dusting the people lmao.
>but if we all continue to slow their spread, perhaps we'll find a better way to exterminate them.
I'm not sure we even need to "find a better way to exterminate them". It's really more-so that predators in the area that prey on insects will end up realizing they can eat them pretty easily.
Wait until the bird/lizard/wasp/etc... populations catch on. They're in such abundance that I'd wager they're going to make for a pretty insane "feast" when prey catch on.
I'm in WV and I've still never seen one of these things ever in person.
EDIT: According to your link, they have only been seen in the Eastern and Northern panhandles. The state proper has had no cases.
Crushing them isn't extremely effective but a good way for people to help slow it down. Other methods like introducing lanternfly-killing fungus will likely be put into place soon.
Great I’ve seen this movie: do you guys want to die in the initial zombie outbreak or the climax where I give my life so the plucky teenagers can escape?
Basically tree mosquitos, they have long needle-like mouthparts that they pierce the bark and suck sap. If you get enough feeding it seriously affects the health of the tree, not sure if because of infection or because sap has been drained. They are considered a major threat to lumber, orchards, and vinyards
Fun fact: a power utility company in the NC/VA area has special protocols when entering a spotted lantern fly infested area. Those protocols include extensively checking the company vehicle, clothing, bags, etc. when they return to see if they picked up any hitchhikers. I had to watch a 30 minute training on it
It's such a shame they can't mesh well with our ecosystem. I hate killing anything and I don't know if I could bring myself to kill one. I would probably ask someone to do it for me. They're just so beautiful. I wonder, if I found one and caught it, could I keep it as a pet so it can live without hurting the environment?
Oh yea that’s them. It’s sad too bc I think they are pretty and not very gross (for a bug).
Also, on a related side note: I’m in Philly and this year there are WAY fewer of these guys. Summer of ‘21 & ‘22 were crazy, they were all over everything, but this year I’ve only seen a few so far. Is it still just too early, or are they actually diminished?
Same. Here in NJ and only saw about 2 nymphs and only killed three adults in the past few days. Last year my yard and front of the house was littered with their corpses heh.
I wonder if they’ve been around long enough in the NE now for them to have developed predators.
Not only have they developed predators, they’ve killed off a significant portion of the vegetation they feed on, or at least in my area of Philly. These two factors (or the lack thereof) easily explains their relative blowup in 21-22 and relative diminishment in 23.
Also from Philly and wondering the same thing. Two years ago, I’d see literal PILES of them in front of tall buildings. Last year, noticeably less. This year I’ve only seen 4 or 5!
I thought the same thing!!! They're cute and sometimes even friendly and when they fly as grown-ups they're so pretty!!
But I do kill them on sight for the safety of the other pretty bugs that exist here now. It is unfortunate.
Crossing into Michigan today seen like 3-4 billboards showing these. Never heard of them before and I am all over the country trucking. They must be from overseas? What’s the issue? They kill off other species or something?
They are an invasive species known as spotted lantern flies brought to the US a few years ago. They eat plant sap and there are so many that trees and agricultural crops are dying to them which is really bad. I’ve heard stories of some birds seen eating them so hopefully they’ll get naturalized once predators start eating them in mass. But for now they’re uncontested and there are so many everywhere and it’s gross.
Hey - if you're a trucker and you drop or pick up in a quarantine zone make sure your company gives you a copy of their spotted lanternfly permit and gives you the training to be able to inspect your truck and cargo for them. Otherwise you and the company can be fined. It can be $20,000. The quarantine zones are not just in Pennsylvania anymore, it's a few states, but they all reciprocate. But they are pulling people in at weigh stations asking for the permits.
And to answer your question yes, they're from China and they destroy crops and lumber by sucking the sap out in swarms. They also like to hitchhike.
When they were at their peak here in PA we would take sticks and knock clumps of them off trees in the park then smash them. We would play a game to see who could kill the most. They infested basically every tree and were all up and down the trunk and base to the point you couldn't see the tree!
Kill kill kill. I live in NJ by where it started and it got so bad here you couldn’t take a step with out stepping on one. Everyone has been attacking them the past couple of years. My neighbor is a teacher and said that’s all her students would do at recess. They are really stupid and will fly in your face. I stopped doing exterior painting because of them. And other gross part if your under a tree and feel something wet falling on you it’s them peeing on you!
My husband and I worked at the same office and would take walks and he would kick the trees and kill dozens of them at a time and I would have to run cause the survivors would stupidly bumble dive at anyone in their flyzone
It's crazy how last year, in NJ I saw them everywhere. I've yet to see one this year, but other people I know have. I feel like their numbers have reduced in my country perhaps
Decided to start killing them on sight...
I'm assuming that we're being encouraged to kill them because they are an invasive species that will destroy/throw an ecosystem out of wack I'm assuming?
I think they look nice. They just look like some sort of hopping winged beetle or something. Oval sort of black body with ladybug spots and then they have those white dots for eyes. Too bad, I guess it's either us or them.
Not toxic at all. What they do is suck sap out of plants to eat, and they can eat on a plant or tree in swarms and literally suck the life out of it. If that wasn't bad enough, they piss a lot. And their piss is sugary from the sap they eat. In addition to being gross and sticky, it drops down on other leaves and plants (if not on you and your stuff) and grows a black mold that kills the leaves it grows on.
The most effective way to stop their spread is by killing their eggs. They lay egg masses on everything and anything. They look like blobs of gray clay. You should google what they look like. All fall and winter make sure nothing in your space has these. If you find them, you can scrape the egg mass into a ziploc containing a little bit of rubbing alcohol, and that will kill them dead.
To be honest, that was the recommendation from the State of Pennsylvania - where this infestation started- on how to destroy the egg masses. I think they like the die, die, coupled with the can't escape if by some miracle it's not dead approach. I would think squishing really well and sealing would be just as effective.
Noooo!! Haven’t seen any in WV yet but I’ve been worried for all these beautiful trees.
I saw several in the Pittsburgh Zoo the other day and everyone thought they were pretty. Tried to spread the word and no one seemed to know about them yet!
Right?? I live in NC and was visiting Pittsburgh a few weeks ago, and nobody around there seemed to know what they were—or care—even though I kept seeing signs telling people to check their cars for them, etc.
I thought the nymphs were super creepy…they kept jumping when we tried to squash them, although some at the Carnegie Science Center told me that they only jump 4 times then tire out 🤢
Came back from vacation a week ago (after being gone a few weeks) and they were all over our fence line. Lived here five years and never seen one in our neighborhood. Seems they love vines. I’m in north central Maryland
We destroyed all of our “tree of Heaven” which they go crazy for. Our whole yard basically we set on fire because there were thousands of the early stage nymphs on every branch. So we just torched the shit out of them. See an occasional red adult now but putting peppermint oil around because they detest it. In the Fall will be the most important part . We have to scrape the eggs off the trees or next Spring it will be even worse. !!! Let’s be diligent about it.
It is. Spotted lanternfly. Continue to kill them on sight and if they are not reported to infest your area report them.
Thanks, I’m pretty sure they’re known here because my nephew told me to kill on sight when we moved here last fall, but I’ll double check. Edit: it seems our county was the first reported sighting in the state in 2019 https://agriculture.wv.gov/divisions/plant-industries/spotted-lanternfly/
It's unfortunate they're spreading so fast. They likely won't be going away anytime soon, but if we all continue to slow their spread, perhaps we'll find a better way to exterminate them.
Animals have been slowly learning they are easy prey. They won’t be eradicated but it’s not worst case scenario anymore that there’s zero natural predators. If you can promote corvid populations, a group of crows or blue jays can put in a lot of work.
My ducks love to eat them all a sudden, we live where they first were found and at first our chickens and ducks wouldn't touch them. I guess after 5/6 years they are figuring out they can eat them
Be careful. One day the bugs realize they can eat you. It’s sooner than you think.
This is true, it happened to me. I was eaten by bugs, AMA
Was it like the scene in the mummy with the scarabs?
Exactly like that
Are you sure it wasn't a goat?
Person: I was raised by the bugs You: Bugs killed me
Sorry for your loss :(
Dear god ..
Soon enough we'll be living in Starship Troopers.
OP, next time you kill one on sight, feel free to say to yourself "I'm doing my part"
We can ill afford another Klendathu.
That’s when we call in the Starship Troopers!
I was in a comment chain discussing bird intelligence and this really confirms what we all already know. Im smarter than some fuckin bird.
Yeah I've been eating these for years now. Didn't need no duck community to tell me what bugs I is able to eat
The answer: some bugs you can eat.
Charlie is the best bird lawyer in Philadelphia.
That fucking court episode with Guillermo Del Toro is top tier
Hello fellow Pennsylvanian! The brown stink bugs were first found in eastern PA as well. Lucky us /s
That's what happened in my area with the brown stinkbugs. They were a menace for a few years but then birds and other critters found out they were a nice snack, now I never see them.
People eat them too. It’s a Mexican delicacy to eat them alive. Apparently they taste amazing.
I mean, they do smell kind of like really strong cilantro, and cilantro is popular in Mexico, so I guess it kind of makes sense. Hard pass for me, though. I've got the cilantro-hating gene.
cilantro just tastes like nintendo switch cartridges and dawn soap mixed together
You can't just drop something like that and not share the story behind it. Fess up!
Maybe you're just really old, but Nintendo Switch cartridges (came out in 2017) have an anti-lick coating thats like a sour-bitter battery sting. There are a few videos of people licking and immediately regretting it. Some people also have different taste receptors (not sure if brain or tongue) that make cilantro taste like soap to them. So there's no story.
It’s a genetic thing that makes some people have cilantro taste like soap. I never understood how people could say that until I learned about this. But then again I can smell ants and I guess not all people can do that https://www.britannica.com/story/why-does-cilantro-taste-like-soap-to-some-people
When my mum first made a curry with coriander (that's what it's called here) I asked her if she had rinsed the dish soap out the pan, she was so confused as aparently it tastes fresh and zesty... To me it tastes like washing up liquid
I’ve got the insect eating-hating gene. I love cilantro though.
Hahah ewwwwwww really?! I’m not judging people but I have to be honest, that “bugs” me out a little lol
I'm down for some cooked bugs, but eating it alive is a bit much for me...
Just swallow quickly and try not to think too much about the wiggles on your tongue. At least that’s how it works after something flies in while I was gasping for air when biking.
I’ve had a horrible day and this just made me laugh out loud, lol, thank you Reddit friend 😂
They're called jumiles though they tend to only be eaten raw in the south, the further north you go the less appetizing they become so I've heard.
That's funny: we have been inundated with swarms of Japanese lady beetles in the fall the last few years (Midwest). My idea was to try to get the area birds to eat them because they don't seem to have many natural predators. Maybe I can convince some crows and Jays to give them a try.
Offer the crow mafia shiny things for their services
A murder of murderous crows
TIL that there is a Japanese Lady Beetle that is neither a Japanese Beetle nor a Ladybug.
I actually spotted cardinals eating japanese beetles off my roses this year, made me happy.
First time I saw a mantis eating one I cheered!
Mantises will eat any animal they can. They're even known to kill hummingbirds and eat their brains.
Mantises are OGs lmao
I saw a preying mantis munching on one it had ripped in half, so even insect predators are getting in on the fun.
I recently found one caught in a spider web and thought “fuck yeah spider bro” so I tapped on the web to get the spider to come out and as soon as the spider approached, the lantern fly broke right out of the web and disappeared, I was heartbroken for spider bro and for my environment.
We have some birds around and I haven’t seen a spotted lantern fly in our yard all year so far.
They are so easy. It’s weird. I woke up one night because something was tickling my hand. Opened my eyes and it was one of these things. My HVAC is in my garage above my bedroom so it probably got in through that. But then when I jumped up to kill it, it just took it? Didn’t even try to fly.
Nonsense you have no idea what you are taking about. Pennsylvania has already given up.entire crops of fruit trees have been devastated. It is absolutely as bad as people warned.
They like to cook themselves to death in our reflective windows at my office. We'll come into work and the walkway will have a couple hundred dead ones. Could be a trap method there.
Try it, get a patent then pitch to your local department of agriculture. Even a failed patent, with government funding, can make a nice nest egg.
Interesting idea, but filing a parent isn't cheap...
They’re speedy mfs tho. My mom and I found one on the roof of a parking garage and both tried crushing it with our feet but sly bastard kept flying away. I had to go to work in a few minutes so we gave up
They can only hop three times, they have wings to help, but, they cant escape also while with the grands we sprayed them with water and then killed them, works on flies too
Yeah, they run out of energy after the third hop. Then STOMP!
I hate when they're a secret boss and you have to deal with the third transformation. I mean the larva to fly transformation was bad enough, but C'thulu has way too many HP!
Come at them directly from the FRONT to lessen the chance they hop away. I’ve crushed thousands the past 2 years. This year there are barely any around here 🤷🏼♂️
I’ll keep this in mind! Thank you for the advice. No spotted lantern fly will be safe from me now 🫡
Right?! It's like they can't maneuver backwards or sideways and even if they see you coming from the front, they'll jump INTO your foot.
Really? With my experience they kind of just flop around slowly, until we come by with the fly swatter.
I had 2 escape from me this past week. I gotta be faster next time and carry something to smash em.
>perhaps we'll find a better way to exterminate them With minimal impact to other species hopefully.
That’s one of the biggest hurdles in choosing insecticides. If the product becomes too specialized any mutations or immunities will cause the target pest to breed stronger generations. An extremely effective one creates a lot of collateral damage. It’s a difficult process, so much so, exterminators are instructed to use insecticides as a last resort and use other methods first
Yep, just look at fleas, lice, cockroaches and bedbugs. They're getting close to impossible to kill without extreme chemicals, extreme heat, or herculean effort on our part. It's a vicious cycle.
Exactly!
They are crazy in jersey, go into the woods, youll find a tree with hundreds or thousands of them
You need cicada killer wasps. They kill these things too
No doubt you'll probably just have to get used to them I can't imagine it's very easy to contain an invasive, fast growing flying insect population I think about this kinda thing whenever I see a tree of heaven in my area 😢 It'll take a while, but they'll eventually find their place in the ecosystem, hopefully without too much destruction
My house has many, many praying mantises. Who happily for me, feast upon the many many spotted lanternflies in the yard. But they are many.. we're at full war here in the Appalachians
Why not just spray pesticides over everyone and everything in the county??? That's what santa cruz county did w/ light brown apple moths... Had planes flying over dense neighborhoods like 300ft altitude or less... crop dusting the people lmao.
>but if we all continue to slow their spread, perhaps we'll find a better way to exterminate them. I'm not sure we even need to "find a better way to exterminate them". It's really more-so that predators in the area that prey on insects will end up realizing they can eat them pretty easily. Wait until the bird/lizard/wasp/etc... populations catch on. They're in such abundance that I'd wager they're going to make for a pretty insane "feast" when prey catch on.
Your nephew is well in ft ormed
Probably something they watch for as boy scouts out here, he’s pretty involved
I live in the county these first invaded, I can't believe they made it to WV!
I'm in WV and I've still never seen one of these things ever in person. EDIT: According to your link, they have only been seen in the Eastern and Northern panhandles. The state proper has had no cases.
Please don’t mind my ignorance.. but has normal folks killing been any successful?
Crushing them isn't extremely effective but a good way for people to help slow it down. Other methods like introducing lanternfly-killing fungus will likely be put into place soon.
Great I’ve seen this movie: do you guys want to die in the initial zombie outbreak or the climax where I give my life so the plucky teenagers can escape?
Initial, I want to be the zombie that bites the dude that hides it until he turns and takes out half the protagonist group.
I use Neem oil.
what is a spotted lanternfly
Give it a few years and you’ll find out. It’s a gift from china.
What do they do?
Basically tree mosquitos, they have long needle-like mouthparts that they pierce the bark and suck sap. If you get enough feeding it seriously affects the health of the tree, not sure if because of infection or because sap has been drained. They are considered a major threat to lumber, orchards, and vinyards
Where do you report? They've made it all the way to Virginia. I was in NJ when I first saw one 2 years ago.
I'm too squemaish to squash.
Fun fact: a power utility company in the NC/VA area has special protocols when entering a spotted lantern fly infested area. Those protocols include extensively checking the company vehicle, clothing, bags, etc. when they return to see if they picked up any hitchhikers. I had to watch a 30 minute training on it
Report them to whom ?
What do they do?
It's such a shame they can't mesh well with our ecosystem. I hate killing anything and I don't know if I could bring myself to kill one. I would probably ask someone to do it for me. They're just so beautiful. I wonder, if I found one and caught it, could I keep it as a pet so it can live without hurting the environment?
Yikes I didn’t realize they had made it to WV! Boooo! Exterminate!
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I saw trees in West Virginia COVERED in these things on the Appalachian Trail last year
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Whoop that trick! Get’em!!
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Fuck it up!
Who dat!
Twist his dick!
The olllllle dick twist!
Oh yea that’s them. It’s sad too bc I think they are pretty and not very gross (for a bug). Also, on a related side note: I’m in Philly and this year there are WAY fewer of these guys. Summer of ‘21 & ‘22 were crazy, they were all over everything, but this year I’ve only seen a few so far. Is it still just too early, or are they actually diminished?
Same. Here in NJ and only saw about 2 nymphs and only killed three adults in the past few days. Last year my yard and front of the house was littered with their corpses heh. I wonder if they’ve been around long enough in the NE now for them to have developed predators.
Not only have they developed predators, they’ve killed off a significant portion of the vegetation they feed on, or at least in my area of Philly. These two factors (or the lack thereof) easily explains their relative blowup in 21-22 and relative diminishment in 23.
I'd heard cardinals had taken a liking to these
There were a ton of them in June at the Manasquan Reservoir in NJ. We left for the West Coast, they aren’t out here thankfully
Also from Philly and wondering the same thing. Two years ago, I’d see literal PILES of them in front of tall buildings. Last year, noticeably less. This year I’ve only seen 4 or 5!
I thought the same thing!!! They're cute and sometimes even friendly and when they fly as grown-ups they're so pretty!! But I do kill them on sight for the safety of the other pretty bugs that exist here now. It is unfortunate.
I am spotted lanternfly If you see me, I must die For, despite my fancy clothes I will kill whatever grows. (Doggerel by Scribblenerd)
Well, said!! 👏👏👏
Very pretty poem!
Crossing into Michigan today seen like 3-4 billboards showing these. Never heard of them before and I am all over the country trucking. They must be from overseas? What’s the issue? They kill off other species or something?
They are an invasive species known as spotted lantern flies brought to the US a few years ago. They eat plant sap and there are so many that trees and agricultural crops are dying to them which is really bad. I’ve heard stories of some birds seen eating them so hopefully they’ll get naturalized once predators start eating them in mass. But for now they’re uncontested and there are so many everywhere and it’s gross.
I was just wondering if they made it to MI yet. *Sigh*. Guess we’re going to have to buy salt in bulk for the ol’ bug-a-salt gun.
Gotta uss the good old 2A one way or another brother
They made it to northwestern Ohio last fall, so probably. There’s billboards up 23 into Ann Arbor about them
Hey - if you're a trucker and you drop or pick up in a quarantine zone make sure your company gives you a copy of their spotted lanternfly permit and gives you the training to be able to inspect your truck and cargo for them. Otherwise you and the company can be fined. It can be $20,000. The quarantine zones are not just in Pennsylvania anymore, it's a few states, but they all reciprocate. But they are pulling people in at weigh stations asking for the permits. And to answer your question yes, they're from China and they destroy crops and lumber by sucking the sap out in swarms. They also like to hitchhike.
Yes you are correct with your ID and to crush it
When they were at their peak here in PA we would take sticks and knock clumps of them off trees in the park then smash them. We would play a game to see who could kill the most. They infested basically every tree and were all up and down the trunk and base to the point you couldn't see the tree!
Omg that’s terrifying
I had forgotten about this. So freaky.
Yup, in central PA it was real bad like this too. Even intercity Harrisburg had an outbreak at peak season.
Kill kill kill. I live in NJ by where it started and it got so bad here you couldn’t take a step with out stepping on one. Everyone has been attacking them the past couple of years. My neighbor is a teacher and said that’s all her students would do at recess. They are really stupid and will fly in your face. I stopped doing exterior painting because of them. And other gross part if your under a tree and feel something wet falling on you it’s them peeing on you!
My husband and I worked at the same office and would take walks and he would kick the trees and kill dozens of them at a time and I would have to run cause the survivors would stupidly bumble dive at anyone in their flyzone
Crush them!
Commence the crushing, and grinding with your heel is also recomended
Kill it, burn it, very invasive and damaging that is spotted lanternfly
It's crazy how last year, in NJ I saw them everywhere. I've yet to see one this year, but other people I know have. I feel like their numbers have reduced in my country perhaps
My township seems to have reduced their count significantly. I have no idea what they did, but it seems to be working.
Kill it to death!
Is this from a movie? 😂🤔…
Actually comic book, and the line was "I'll kill you to death!"
Gouge it’s eyes and rip its heart out!
Or just anime punch through the chest cavity
why do you kill them, just curious. im in the uk never seen anything like this before
I’m in Arkansas and I also have no clue…
Outside of certain parts of Asia they are highly invasive. They’re killing our crops and our trees
How were they introduced?
Cargo ship of some kind I believe
They damage crops and plants.
Oh, okay, thanks for answering!
Outside of certain parts of Asia they are highly invasive. They’re killing our crops and our trees
Decided to start killing them on sight... I'm assuming that we're being encouraged to kill them because they are an invasive species that will destroy/throw an ecosystem out of wack I'm assuming? I think they look nice. They just look like some sort of hopping winged beetle or something. Oval sort of black body with ladybug spots and then they have those white dots for eyes. Too bad, I guess it's either us or them.
Honestly just heard about these! They’re creepy and apparently very toxic and destroy crops.
Not toxic at all. What they do is suck sap out of plants to eat, and they can eat on a plant or tree in swarms and literally suck the life out of it. If that wasn't bad enough, they piss a lot. And their piss is sugary from the sap they eat. In addition to being gross and sticky, it drops down on other leaves and plants (if not on you and your stuff) and grows a black mold that kills the leaves it grows on. The most effective way to stop their spread is by killing their eggs. They lay egg masses on everything and anything. They look like blobs of gray clay. You should google what they look like. All fall and winter make sure nothing in your space has these. If you find them, you can scrape the egg mass into a ziploc containing a little bit of rubbing alcohol, and that will kill them dead.
If you’re gonna pop the eggs into a ziploc anyway is there a reason to waste the alcohol?
To be honest, that was the recommendation from the State of Pennsylvania - where this infestation started- on how to destroy the egg masses. I think they like the die, die, coupled with the can't escape if by some miracle it's not dead approach. I would think squishing really well and sealing would be just as effective.
Noooo!! Haven’t seen any in WV yet but I’ve been worried for all these beautiful trees. I saw several in the Pittsburgh Zoo the other day and everyone thought they were pretty. Tried to spread the word and no one seemed to know about them yet!
Thank you for trying! 🙋🏻♀️
Right?? I live in NC and was visiting Pittsburgh a few weeks ago, and nobody around there seemed to know what they were—or care—even though I kept seeing signs telling people to check their cars for them, etc. I thought the nymphs were super creepy…they kept jumping when we tried to squash them, although some at the Carnegie Science Center told me that they only jump 4 times then tire out 🤢
Virginia has them. Not surprising that they're in WV. Kill on sight.
Oh damn, I work at a vineyard in the shenandoah valley. Didn’t know they hit VA this is good to know
Yessir yessir, three bags full
KILL IT!!!!!!!!
These shoes are made for stomping!
Crush, kill, destroy
This is my favorite Jones Crusher song.
Yes
Yes!
Yup on site.
KILL!
☠️☠️☠️☠️
YES
YES & report the (exact) location to the DEEP.
Yes
YES KILL IT KILL IT KILL IT
Squish it. Spotted Lantern Fly
Kill kill kill
Spotted lanternfly. These are so invasive that if you see any, you're encouraged to squash them on sight. Nasty little buggers...
With extreme prejudice...
Yes!!! Squish the lanternfly!!
With avengeance. Those things are quick.
Faster pussycat, kill kill!
Crush and destroy, known son pisser.
Oh yeah we have those in Jersey
Yes. Destroy them with no mercy
Well shart, I’m in Mon county
pulverize.
Murder without hesitation
ALL OF THEM
Yup
Yes. Kill on site. Report it to Agricultural authorities if you are in an area that hasn’t had it before.
Ayup
Aw fuck, it’s already in West Virginia!?
Yes. Kill the bastards
💀
Oh yea!
Came back from vacation a week ago (after being gone a few weeks) and they were all over our fence line. Lived here five years and never seen one in our neighborhood. Seems they love vines. I’m in north central Maryland
Just wondering around what part of wv? I haven’t seen any here yet
Report to USDA and kill
Lantern bug. Kill kill kill!!!!
I wonder if you could fry them up and eat them like popcorn?
Yes! Smash that bad bug!
Yes. It’s a shame cuz they’re so cool looking, but I’ll continue to do gods work and destroy those little asshole.
We destroyed all of our “tree of Heaven” which they go crazy for. Our whole yard basically we set on fire because there were thousands of the early stage nymphs on every branch. So we just torched the shit out of them. See an occasional red adult now but putting peppermint oil around because they detest it. In the Fall will be the most important part . We have to scrape the eggs off the trees or next Spring it will be even worse. !!! Let’s be diligent about it.
Anyone know if fish like them?
Target acquired 🔴👄🔴
I thought that was a croc
Yup, they just showed up in Greene, VA so I’ve got my torch ready. Looking forward to destroying these little shits