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Spotted Lantern Fly

Spotted Lantern Fly Adult
Spotted Lantern Fly Adult

It seems everywhere I go outside these past few weeks I am seeing more and more of these Spotted Lantern Flies. While they are very pretty, we all need to spread the word that they are invasive and damaging. The best thing to do is to kill them.

Last year, I wrote about them and how it was hard explaining to our granddaughter why they much go. This year she has been helping us destroy them. Even walking across the soccer field today, she saw one right in the grass. As she went to step on it, it jumped and few away. She eventually was able to get.

They are attaching themselves to our house and are crawling in the mulch. Even our cat got into the action the other day and caught a few.

If you see them in your neighborhood here is the link to report them. Make sure you snap a photo!

Spotted Lantern Fly Eggs
Spotted Lantern Fly Eggs
Spotted Lantern Fly Adult
Spotted Lantern Fly Adult

Stephanie Fleming

Stephanie Fleming was raised at Behnke’s Nurseries in Beltsville. Her Mom, Sonja, was one of Albert & Rose Behnke’s four children. She was weeding from the moment she could walk and hiding as soon as she was old enough to run, so many weeds, so little time. Although she quickly learned how to pull out a perennial and get taken off of weed pulling duty.

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