Talking with a fellow maple producer this morning and he mentioned hearing about the spotted lanternfly in CT recently. Looks to be the case. 47% of the forest, including maple, susceptible to this bug. That’s just great...... Hoping it doesn’t turn into anything much. Invasive, destructive spotted lanternfly pest identified in Connecticut
Since the SLF came from some ship yard around philly.....PA is the 1 st state to have them. The last i heard.....there was a group of people that went to Asia to find a natural predator....they came back with some sort of wasps that lays there eggs on them at a certain stage ( i forget....maybe google it). Then they have to keep it quarantined so long to make sure it wont cause problems... I think just about every invasive bug we have came from over there. Now besides the junk they make....we have there bugs. Spray them with DDT (lol)...i feel its probly not more cancer causing than the other poisons there puttin into food one way or another...
First time ive heard of it in Connecticut. Have never seen one that i can say. Too bad as its a pretty insect.
It's sad, something needs to be done to stop these bugs because our oxygen depends on it...... They are in my area, we're just confirmed around a month or so ago......
When our protective overlords free us from our chains and bonds to fossil fuels and animal flesh you'll be having those for lunch.
I was at a farmers meeting last winter and the SLF was a topic of discussion. Someone from the department of ag was giving the talk. She was saying that anyone who travels from or through the Lancaster, PA area is supposed to stop and check their vehicle before proceeding. These are the people that we put in charge. Yeah I'm sure lots of people are doing that. Plus it's a flying insect. Just like the EAB we're not gonna stop it unfortunately. How long until the predators they bring over become a problem?
actually they don't. they "jump" . which makes them a slow mover. Except the one I killed had just rode a semi trailer 150 miles. Luckily I knew what it was and killed it as soon as I saw it. The Dept of Ag Spotted Lanternfly Taskforce came to the site the next day to look around. Although it has two pairs of wings, it jumps more than it flies. Spotted lanternfly - Wikipedia
My 5 year “spotted” one last weekend while we were visiting family in Philly. I haven’t learned much about these invaders yet and I haven’t seen one where I live in Jersey yet but I’m sure it’s just a matter of time unfortunately. Anyway on some level I was proud that my little naturalist found it, knew exactly what it was and knew exactly what we had to do with it.... we snapped a pic before squashing it.
