Those are approximately an inch long and resemble a smear of mud. Now is the prime time to be on guard, not just for adult lanternflies, but also the egg masses they will soon lay.
Credit: AP / Matt Rourke Where does it lay eggs? Spotted lanternflies gather on a tree in Kutztown, Pa., in 2019. One specimen recently turned up at the Kansas state fair, experts noted. For instance, Logue noted they can travel on empty rail cars that may be left unattended at interstate junctions Keena said they have been found on planes landing in California, which relies on exports of crops and wines. "I’m just glad that I found it when I did and spread the word." How did they get here?Īll too often, they escape attempts to quarantine them. She reported the sighting and shared it on social media. "It had hopped right in, onto the deck and right up to the back door," she said. Maria Weigel, 56, of Massapequa, immediately recognized it when one appeared on her property. Maria Weigel found this spotted lanternfly near the Massapequa Preserve. She said it might have hitched a ride on her car after a recent trip to Pennsylvania's Pike County, about 90 miles from midtown Manhattan, where this invader has foraged since at least 2019. So armed with wasp pesticide, she hunted it down, finding it clinging to the porch railing, and reported it. "Immediately people started saying ‘Kill it,’ and everything you read just says ‘Kill it,’ " she said.
Posting the picture her daughter took on social media, she asked if anyone could identify it. "It freaked me out," she said, having never seen anything quite like it. "We probably have had, over a couple of days at the end of August, somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 reports," Logue said.ĭyanna Wunsch, 49, of Wantagh, opened her front door recently to spy one "just walking across our doormat," she said. Credit: Cornell UniversityĪt least two Nassau residents and one in Suffolk have spotted and slain the insects, and in New York City, they have washed up on Staten Island beaches. 14, according to the New York State Integrated Pest Management Program. Locations where infestations and individual sightings of spotted lanternflies have been reported, as of Sept. This map from Cornell University shows reported sightings as of this week, including on Long Island. Late-summer and autumn wine tourists and apple and pumpkin pickers all should scan their vehicles, especially under fenders and hood air vents where these pests can hide.Īs of April, nine states had infestations and "single individual insects" had been spotted in seven others, said Melody Keena, a U.S. In Pennsylvania, where this bug evidently rode in on a stone slab from China in 2014, yearly economic losses five years later were just over $50 million, and 484 jobs were lost, Penn State's report said. Spotted lanternflies feed on more than six dozen plants, including apples, grapes, hops, stone fruits and hardwood trees. "It’s very unique," said Carrie Brown-Lima, director of the New York Invasive Species Research Institute at Cornell University.
Credit: Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture They are large: an inch long, a half-inch wide at rest and have a striking appearance.Īn adult spotted lanternfly at rest. What does it look like?Īdults are easy to spot. "We’ll have to be very vigilant," said Chris Logue, director of the department's plant industry division. Suffolk’s vineyards and orchards already have been told to prepare, officials said. According to New York State's Department of Agriculture and Markets' website, it feeds on more than 70 different plants.
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