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FakeNoose

(35,813 posts) Sat Feb 25, 2023, 04:10 PM Feb 2023

This is the season to scrape spotted lantern fly egg masses

(link) https://www.abc27.com/news/environment/tis-the-season-to-scrape-spotted-lantern-fly-egg-masses/

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) – The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture wants you to know that now is the time to get out and scrape those lantern fly egg masses.

Jay Losiewicz, Deputy Communications Director at the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, said the insect will lay their egg masses in the fall, and from there they do die off. However, the lantern fly continues, and egg masses wait until spring to hatch which is why now is the time to prevent it.

“They do damage to a lot of our agricultural products. They do like grape vines, potentially some hops things like that,” said Losiewicz.

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Video at OP link shows how to find the eggs on bushes and tree bark, scrape those egg masses off with a plastic card and toss them into a plastic baggie. The more eggs we kill right now in the early spring means less damage to farm and garden crops later.

Later in the spring after the spotted lantern flies start hatching, the best thing to do is stomp it and squish it.

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This is the season to scrape spotted lantern fly egg masses (Original Post) FakeNoose Feb 2023 OP

K n R ! Thanks for posting!...nt JoeOtterbein Feb 2023 #1

another thanks NJCher Feb 2023 #2

Is this in reference to love bugs or something entirely different? Ferrets are Cool Feb 2023 #3

The spotted lantern fly - it's moving into Pennsylvania since last year FakeNoose Feb 2023 #4

Thank you very much. Ferrets are Cool Feb 2023 #5

This is what they look like by the time I notice them cyclonefence Feb 2023 #6

Thanks for this - I never saw one with the wings off FakeNoose Feb 2023 #7

The wings may not be off cyclonefence Feb 2023 #8

JoeOtterbein

(7,791 posts)

1. K n R ! Thanks for posting!...nt

Reply to FakeNoose (Original post)

Sat Feb 25, 2023, 04:12 PM

Feb 2023

NJCher

(37,992 posts)

2. another thanks

Reply to FakeNoose (Original post)

Sat Feb 25, 2023, 04:37 PM

Feb 2023

I will get my garden kid students on this.
They love these lanternfly projects, especially the stomping part.

Ferrets are Cool

(21,961 posts)

3. Is this in reference to love bugs or something entirely different?

Reply to FakeNoose (Original post)

Sat Feb 25, 2023, 04:39 PM

Feb 2023

FakeNoose

(35,813 posts)

4. The spotted lantern fly - it's moving into Pennsylvania since last year

Reply to Ferrets are Cool (Reply #3)

Sat Feb 25, 2023, 04:47 PM

Feb 2023

This thing has no natural enemies and it kills a lot of crops, such as grapevines and fruit orchards. The eggs get laid in the fall but the best time to find them and kill the eggs is late winter-early spring before the plants start budding.

Ferrets are Cool

(21,961 posts)

5. Thank you very much.

Reply to FakeNoose (Reply #4)

Sat Feb 25, 2023, 05:07 PM

Feb 2023

Sounds insidious.

cyclonefence

(4,873 posts)

6. This is what they look like by the time I notice them

Reply to FakeNoose (Original post)

Sat Feb 25, 2023, 05:55 PM

Feb 2023

FakeNoose

(35,813 posts)

7. Thanks for this - I never saw one with the wings off

Reply to cyclonefence (Reply #6)

Sat Feb 25, 2023, 10:01 PM

Feb 2023

But yes I guess they do lose their wings later in the summer.

Here's another article that talks about the damage these things are doing in PA and elsewhere:
https://spottedlanternflykillers.com/pages/spotted-lanternfly-damage

cyclonefence

(4,873 posts)

8. The wings may not be off

Reply to FakeNoose (Reply #7)

Sun Feb 26, 2023, 06:02 PM

Feb 2023

They might be folded under the harder upper wings--if you look at some of the photos showing those gauzier wings open, you can see what I think is the red wings open, too. But I don't know.

I really hated stomping them until I read that news item about the grape harvest in Berks Co. I live outside Philadelphia and saw quite a few last year.

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