Spotted Lantern Flies Must Be Killed
By CarolDM
@CarolDM (203454)
Nashville, Tennessee
September 18, 2021 12:12pm CST
Read this story on Bing this morning. Such a beautiful insect, but don't be fooled by the beauty.
While they're not harmful to people, these insects don't sting or bite, spotted lantern flies are an invasive species that prey on 70 different species of trees and plants, and can spell doom for grape vineyards and apple orchards.
Makes you wonder if they are beautiful for a reason. People are not as likely to kill an insect that looks like this one. But the experts say we must get rid of them.
https://www.businessinsider.com/spotted-lanternflies-invasive-species-killed-us-states-2021-9
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@crossbones27 (48417)
• Mojave, California
18 Sep 21
@NJChicaa Yeah, said they were a East coast problem but they now spreading.
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@crossbones27 (48417)
• Mojave, California
18 Sep 21
I read something on this too a boy in Kansas has a bug collection and the people that monitor insects or something became alarmed. They not supposed to be in Kansas. I never understood or even thought you could control insects, just so many and with the way the world is over populated someone is going to bring something to somewhere. Did that even make sense? 
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@CarolDM (203454)
• Nashville, Tennessee
19 Sep 21
@crossbones27 Nothing but the truth. 
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@snowy22315 (169893)
• United States
19 Sep 21
I saw something about them on my phone. They remind me of the destructive gyspsy moths but probably worse.
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@snowy22315 (169893)
• United States
19 Sep 21
@CarolDM Beautiful bud deadly like some flowers and berries.
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@GreatMartin (23677)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
18 Sep 21
I read the story also--Mother Nature has tricks up her sleeve!!
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@Scrapper88 (5957)
• United States
18 Sep 21
I have not seen this insect before. What part of the United States do they live in.
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@Scrapper88 (5957)
• United States
18 Sep 21
@CarolDM That is why I have not seen them before. I have not been to that part of the United States yet.
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@RebeccasFarm (86732)
• United States
18 Sep 21
They are attractive for a reason I guess, part of their way to do damage.
Thanks for this info Carol.
I had never seen one, but will keep an eye out.
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@Fleura (29120)
• United Kingdom
18 Sep 21
I've not heard of those before. I guess they haven't made it to the UK yet. We have plenty of other worrying pests to deal with though, but no-one seems to be taking these threats very seriously any more.
I still remember in the 1970s, the problem of imported Colorado beetles triggered a big public education campaign. There were posters in post offices everywhere asking the public to look out for Colorado beetles and report them. Now though, there are many more very dangerous pests at risk of being imported and there seems to be little effort to warn people about them!
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@DocAndersen (54413)
• United States
19 Sep 21
another bad example of why not to introduce insects to new environments.
thanks for the heads up!
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