People who see spotted lantern flies in either stage should destroy them. Some states, including New York, are telling residents to step on and squish the pests. In Rhode Island, the Department of ...

The Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources has confirmed an infestation of the suspected spotted lanternfly in ...

Cornell University researchers recently estimated the financial damage a spotted lanternfly infestation could cause on Finger Lakes farms ... To come to these conclusions, researchers studied the ...

When spotted lanternflies have just hatched and are in their early nymph phase, the tiny black insects are dotted with white spots. They develop their gray and red coloring as adults in July.

So far, the damage estimates attributed to the invasive insect are in the billions of dollars. Redding said it could take a statewide effort to put a stop to the spotted lanternfly’s reign of ...

The spotted lanternfly, Lycorma delicata, is a threat to Delaware and the United States. This insect is detrimental to Delaware’s agricultural industries, the environment, and residential areas, and ...

Visit their website at sleloinvasives.org. Spotted Lantern Flies cling to the exterior of the Asbury Park Senior Citizen building Wednesdaf afternoon, September 14, 2022. The spotted lanternfly is ...

an entomologist and manager of Virginia Tech’s Insect Identification Lab. “And by looking for the egg masses, you’ll see if you have the presence of spotted lanternflies alerting you to a ...