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Spotted Lanternflies located at 601 New York Ave NW in DC.
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I’M DOING MY PART!!!
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I’m from Buenos Aires and I say KILL ‘EM ALL!
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The only good bug is a dead bug!
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Like where was someone with a can of ***Raid?***
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Don’t remember this t line from Starship Troopers
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SEARCHIIIIING SEEK AND DESTROY DUUUUNNNNN, DUNNNDUNNN
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I say this every time I stomp one. Also, I get the theme from Helldivers in my head.
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*aggressively clicks*
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CALLING IN AN EAGLE! ( i realize this might be a super troopers reference but they also day this in hd2)
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Every school kid knows… arachnids are dangerous.
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These things are driving me crazy. They’re EVERYWHERE!
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We had them around us outside of Philly a few years ago like a plague. After a year (or maybe two?) they were just gone. Like if I see two or three a year it’s shocking.
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It takes a second for local fauna to learn to eat them.
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there was a MASSIVE push in central PA to kill them on sight. I used to drive by neighborhoods delivering watching families go on murder sprees for them together. then slowly, some birds and spiders began eating them and they’ve been shown to migrate. so I see a couple a day like some stinkbugs
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One in Philly too. This was not a hard sell because if you tell Philadelphians “hey, so turns out violence IS the answer here” we’ll say “fucking FINALLY!”
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The city of brotherly shove.
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These MFers look like French Laundry appetizers anyway
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Yeah they aren’t that bad if you sauté em
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Found the local fauna.
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I’ve seen someone selling like a honey or a syrup made from them at the Philadelphia flower show the last few years.
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Same. From same area as you. I think I saw two this year. I read their remains are appearing in bat guano, that they are attracted to and killed by milkweed, and other local animals have learned they are tasty. I imagine that will be the next thing that happens all around where they are currently spreading so rapidly.
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Pittsburgh is still getting pounded by these, especially downtown.
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Yeah I was going to say, they ended up not being as huge a deal as people were thinking they would be. You should still kill them but I went from seeing a ton a few years ago to seeing maybe 3 this year and one of those was dead on my car already. I’m outside Harrisburg.
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Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room with Lanternflys. And Lanternflys make me CRAZY!
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These used to be everywhere in eastern PA and NJ. Over the last year or so, the native animals have finally learned how to eat them keeping their population from exploding.
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This is Big Spotted Lantern fly trying to make us relax about killing them. Don’t let up people, the war is not done.The biggest blunders arise on the cusp of victory.
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I’m seeing the same on Long Island, last year I killed multiple on my fruiting plants, this year I saw none on the figs that they loved and one so far on a grape vine. Coincidentally, the spider population in my backyard has exploded and they look PHAT.
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Except they’re really bad this year again. Don’t know why because last year was great.
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Weird. I haven’t seen more than a few since the first year.
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Im like 30 mins from Philly in nj. I’ve had to step on somewhere around 100 this past summer.
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I have a small semi-enclosed back porch in Pittsburgh. I had to sweep up 50-100 of them several times during the first and this summer, but only once last summer
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Not terrible in Jersey City/NYC. I see them occasionally at certain buildings on my way to work, but way less than years ago. Plus, the buildings where they congregate have started putting traps down to help keep them in check.
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Northern NJ – way less then past years. I see hornets and other things taking them down.
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There was also an online campaign encouraging people to kill them. I remember people would post creative ways they would kill them like unleashing their pet birds on them or using a flame thrower.
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When they first popped up in New Jersey they were like this. After a couple years it was much more tempered. They’re still around but nothing like this. Not sure why, maybe the local bird population figured out they can eat them. Plus the children chase them around and stomp them out like Starship Troopers. Edit: I’ll add, if you see them in concentrations like this, mix equal parts water and dish soap and put it in a regular spritz/spray bottle/water gun. It kills them almost instantly and is non-toxic.
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I’m in SE PA and 6 years ago they were everywhere, but I didn’t see a single one this year.
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NEPA here and I work at an airport, they were absoloutely festooned on our ground gate portico last night. They weren’t as bad last year as we’ve had USDA on premises with an outfitted fogger truck, I’d say it wasn’t as effective this year.
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I’m in AZ, we don’t have them yet. Why are they bad? They look huge
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They do damage mostly to hardwood trees in the areas they invade. I think some birds and stuff are starting to learn to eat them around here.
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We saw a toad eat one.
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Don’t call my mom a toad!
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I don’t know how anyone could mistake your mom for a toad. Toads are less warty and their eyes aren’t set so far apart
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I’ve seen his mom swallow lots of things a toad wouldn’t.
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invasive
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They’re takin’ our jerbs!
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Actually they are taking down every Ash tree in the US Correction I was thinking of the emerald ash borer
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