Spotted Lanternflies [View all]
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My son and I were texting today about lanternflies - he's got a bunch at his work and I do a lap around the house and kill what I can each morning.
At one point, he texted to say "We're going to lose this war. There are hundreds in the parking lot."
Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but I took recycling to the landfill and the Japanese Knotweed (the original invasive species in W PA) lining the hillside to the dump was covered in thousands of them.
I spend most of my free time outdoors and have never seen anything like this.
Anyone else seeing them in large numbers?
ETA - my son sent a video on his lunch break. One parking spot in the lot looked like a barn cat covered in fleas - there had to be 50-75 flies crawling around in that space. He said the entire back lot looks like this spot and reiterated that we're going to lose this war.
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