Spotted Lanternfly

New Yorkers may find relief from some of the frustrations that have hit the city this summer by doing their civic duty and killing this pest on sight.

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HARRISBURG — Much like HitchBOT, the hitchhiking robot, spotted lanternflies made it to Pennsylvania and were immediately targeted for annihilation. In some ...

Whether citizen-led bounties have really made a dent in the lanternfly population or prevented the kind of damage officials warned about is up for debate. His app, which has been updated and made more user-friendly since launching, is also gaining ground in western Pennsylvania, a newish frontier, and to a lesser extent Maryland. (Line, a director of technology for a financial services firm, said he does not make any money off Squishr.)The spotted lanternfly, an Obama-era holdover, was first found in the U.S. in Pennsylvania — Berks County to be exact — in 2014. The Department of Agriculture said aside from sample data received prior to its launch, no data was ever received from the app. Line added: “In the early going, we had people who were literally doing thousands of posts of dead bugs a day. “I mean, we had some people [in Pennsylvania] who were spending hours a day squishing these things and recording them in the app. Brad Line — creator of the Squishr app, probably the best tool available for gauging such a thing — thinks so.

The New York state department is urging the public to squash a spotted lanternfly immediately if they see them. But, can they harm humans?

Here’s what you need to do: Since then, it has been founded in other states like New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and New York. But, what are these creatures and can they harm humans?

Local officials have instructed residents to destroy the insects – and some New Yorkers are taking it very seriously.

“Chemicals would kill them instantly, but you damage the tree, damage the soil, damage the environment.” I hope this is the end of it,” he said. “Stomp ’em out with your Timbs, man!” Joshua said to his older brother, Jayden. “Stomp ’em out, stomp ’em out,” Nunez said, like a mantra. The sun had started to shift, but there were many lanternflies in the other trees, high in the branches. “Sometimes I just slap them,” he said. “And they’re not ugly bugs.” “I would just go outside and I would just start stomping.”) “But when I came today, I came to kill them. “A blowtorch would kill them instantly, but you’d damage the tree,” he mused. I came to protect the environment”. Then, he said, “they just started to multiply”. “I didn’t know up until yesterday that they were supposed to be killed,” he said.

Lanternflies, a colorful but invasive flying bug, were first spotted in the city back in 2020. So why are New Yorkers suddenly up in arms over the insects?

Eshenaur is grateful the insects don’t pose a significant harm to other types of crops. According to Eshenaur, lanternflies in the city primarily pose a nuisance to residents. “Are we at the peak this year in New York City? I’m not sure. His main concern is the spreading of the species, assisted by accidental transportation of adult insects or eggs. The insects, which are native to a region in China, feed on plants and don’t sting or bite humans. So why are New Yorkers suddenly up in arms over the insects?

From the Chesapeake Bay Foundation: The spotted lanternfly is an invasive insect originally from Asia, that is decimating forests across the Mid-Atlantic. The ...

The spotted lanternfly is an invasive insect originally from Asia, that is decimating forests across the Mid-Atlantic. The spotted lanternfly feeds on plants by sucking out the sap from leaves, stems or trunks. Because it is an invasive species, there are few natural predators in the Chesapeake region. From the Chesapeake Bay Foundation:

Only six counties have applied to the N.J. Department of Agriculture for reimbursement funds to combat the spotted lanternfly.

“For the last two years we’ve been telling the public to squash these pests whenever and wherever you see them in the community. Bonus said this is an ideal window to help nip the problem in the bud as much as possible. Park leaders have set up traps, removed trees that draw the insects and applied insecticide treatments. Spraying won’t start until the program is formally voted on Aug. 23 by the Cumberland County Board of Commissioners, she added. We then treat these individual trees with a systemic insecticide that effectively makes the plant poisonous to lanternfly.” In late September and October, the females are expected to lay eggs which are scheduled to hatch in the spring. If you’re just creating some concoction and dumping it there, you have no real guidelines of what to do and how much to do it.” One, there’s no actual study on the effectiveness but also you don’t know the side effects of those things and applying them in the environment,” Bonus said. Bonus said Camden County has employed circle traps at some of its parks. As much as $15,000 is available through the fund for each county. As summer starts to wind down, reports of spotted lanternflies have only increased. Penn State even provides instructions on how residents can make their own traps at home.