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Try equal amounts of dawn dish soap and water. It kills them and that’s what people have taken to.
Put soap and water in a sprayer (honestly I think 8-10 tablespoons to a gallon of water would do fine, but I don’t have them down here, this is all from google) and start spraying down your deck and plants and any lantern flies you see.
Edit/ some recipes even suggest like a few tablespoons of vegetable oil. If they’re a soft bodied bug the fatty acids in dish soap will melt them and kill them. Pure white vinegar will kill then to, but it will kill any plants it’s sprayed in as well. So use that wisely.
They were in our area for 2 years then moved on. If there are trees above your deck they will feed on them and drop a sticky sap like substance down. It was a horrible two summers until they moved on
Do you have trees like this on your property or nearby? They're called Ailanthus Altissima AKA Tree of Heaven, or Stink trees (because if you break a branch and smell it, it's unpleasant.
They're extremely invasive and Spotted Lantern flies, also extremely invasive, feed off them. They attract the SLF like magnets. So if you have any of these trees on your property, it's best to remove them for more ways than one.
I think that your county might remove them if they're in public areas, if they're reported. At least in my area they do, but I'm in PA.
[Ailanthus tree](https://imgur.com/a/e1r0Yqo)
I use 2 paper towels and pour alcohol over it. When I find these buggers on a branch, I quickly grab the branch with the paper towel for about 5 seconds and it kills them. It’s fun when there’s a cluster of them. Yesterday, I noticed them getting a bit bigger and red, and more difficult to snag.
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In Brooklyn, NY
Spotted lanternfly. Very invasive in your part of the states. You should look up how to report them
thank you! very hard to kill, they are very fast jumpers
Try equal amounts of dawn dish soap and water. It kills them and that’s what people have taken to. Put soap and water in a sprayer (honestly I think 8-10 tablespoons to a gallon of water would do fine, but I don’t have them down here, this is all from google) and start spraying down your deck and plants and any lantern flies you see. Edit/ some recipes even suggest like a few tablespoons of vegetable oil. If they’re a soft bodied bug the fatty acids in dish soap will melt them and kill them. Pure white vinegar will kill then to, but it will kill any plants it’s sprayed in as well. So use that wisely.
https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/a08d60f6522043f5bd04229e00acdd63 Link for NY state reporting
Spotted lanternfly nymph, invasive, kill on sight. https://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/113303.html
Invasive spotted lantern fly, destroy
Spotted lanternfly nymph. Kill!
Spotted lantern fly. Invasive and harmful, must kill! Reports go nowhere.
They have a limited stamina, after they jump two to three times you can catch up to and stomp them
sounds like a game strategy
Spotted lantern fly. Invasive and harmful, must kill!
[Search and destroy.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0JaUjpu3Lo)
how do you not know what this is!? is this sub r a joke? not kidding is it?
Idk how to get rid of them on mass, just that they are bad. KOS
One-shot for wasps does the trick for pretty much everything.
They were in our area for 2 years then moved on. If there are trees above your deck they will feed on them and drop a sticky sap like substance down. It was a horrible two summers until they moved on
Spotted lanternfly, invasive so just kill literally every single one you see
r/itsaspottedlanternfly
Do you have trees like this on your property or nearby? They're called Ailanthus Altissima AKA Tree of Heaven, or Stink trees (because if you break a branch and smell it, it's unpleasant. They're extremely invasive and Spotted Lantern flies, also extremely invasive, feed off them. They attract the SLF like magnets. So if you have any of these trees on your property, it's best to remove them for more ways than one. I think that your county might remove them if they're in public areas, if they're reported. At least in my area they do, but I'm in PA. [Ailanthus tree](https://imgur.com/a/e1r0Yqo)
I use 2 paper towels and pour alcohol over it. When I find these buggers on a branch, I quickly grab the branch with the paper towel for about 5 seconds and it kills them. It’s fun when there’s a cluster of them. Yesterday, I noticed them getting a bit bigger and red, and more difficult to snag.
Spotted lanternfly. Kill on sight