Spotted lanternflies. Image Credit: Shutterstock – Eric Dale

#Lanternflies have low #GeneticDiversity but possess the right #genes to take over cities. In PNAS Journal Club: https://ow.ly/Kvuh50YlV85

#SpottedLanternfly #InvasiveSpecies #evolution #adaptation #Natural Selection #PestManagement

Scientists discover why invasive spotted lanternflies are thriving in the US — ABC News The species is wreaking havoc on local ecosystems, especially in the Northeast.

Last summer there were SWARMS of #Lanternflies all over midtown #Cleveland

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This mead tastes like... Eeew! 😉
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#honey #news #lanternflies #bees

Lanternfly honey has arrived. Just don’t ask how it’s made. The impact of spotted lanternflies is showing up in a less obvious way: It’s changing honey. Exactly how that change happens may not be the best selling point.

This mead tastes like... Eeew! 😉
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#honey #news #lanternflies #bees

Well that gives hope. I just watched a chickadee wolf down a spotted lanternfly off of my grapevine. #team chickadee #birds #birdwatching #lanternflies

There's so many #lanternflies around the building here that they have the janitors out there sucking them up with shop vacs and lawn vacuums. That's bad enough to have to do, but can you imagine how nasty it is to have to empty those bags? #StayInSchool kids.

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Those damn lantern flies are back #nyc #bugs #lanternflies

I am still freaked out about all of the #lanternflies swarming @clevelandclinic.bsky.social main campus. I killed 6-8 ( fuckers hop) while waiting for my valet at the Crille Bldg. Cleveland Clinic get an EXTERMINATOR, please.

#LanternFlies were swarming all over at #CLevelandClinic main campus. I killed 6 waiting for my valet and I never kill anything!

So many lanternflies are spreading across the East Coast they can be seen on radar Bug species from South East Asia considered highly invasive and a danger to crops

On the east coast last week, swarms of invasive lantern flies were so massive that they were visible on radar.
#lanternflies
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Atlantic ghost crab consuming a lanternfly on a white beach.

Lanternflies, considered invasive and destructive of crops, are swarming along the U.S. East Coast. At Cape May, NJ this week, we discovered that Atlantic ghost crabs feast on #lanternflies, and we have the pictures to prove it.

#Photography #NaturePhotography #JerseyShore #CapeMay

Atlantic ghost crab consuming a lantern fly on a white beach.

Lanternflies, considered invasive and destructive of crops, are swarming along the U.S. East Coast. At Cape May, NJ this week, we discovered that Atlantic ghost crabs feast on #lanternflies, and we have the pictures to prove it.

#Photography #NaturePhotography #JerseyShore #CapeMay

Angry white guy that people pretend is Jesus.

Dead lantern fly.

I am Death, destroyer of life, the angel of darkness, collector of souls. I sit on my throne, blood flows. No day matters, the last sunset is upon you. Your God cannot save you, for you are cursed. 90+ lantern flies have perished today because of me. No escape.

#lanternflies #lanternfly #gardening

Dear lanternflies,
Stop flying into me while I'm walking, I swear you do it on purpose.
Insincerely, me.
#lanternfly #lanternflies #damnbugs #stompystompstomp

The Jerz - Lantern Flies are Back

Some now wearing colors.

Leather jackets, Hell’s Angels, Pagan, Mongols

Tear Drop tatts, Filled in Spider Web tatts

It’s all murder with these friggin’ bugs.

#LanternFlies
#TheJersey
#Gangs
#GangsOfFlies
#Murderizing

#lanternflies #Pittsburgh #bugs
Just wondering… Where have all the red spotted lantern flies gone?? There were thousands in the Spring and last 2 weeks just a few a day🤷🏻‍♀️
Hope they left town for good 👍

Is it just me, or are the #NYC #lanternflies jumping slower this year? My kill ratio vs attempt numbers are way way up.

Happy bee on a cone flower.

Happy bee on a cone flower.

Two different bees on two different cone flowers. Lots of other bees & pollinators all over the place in the front yard native garden. Killed some lantern flies and Japanese beetles too 💀. Lantern fly life cycle: web.uri.edu/biocontrol/p...

#gardening #nativeplants #bees #lanternflies #pollinators

Lantern fly in a Venus Fly trap

Not really foraging topic, but I hate lantern flies so much, I wanted to celebrate the death of one and its contribution to my Venus Fly trap's nutritional well-being. #carnivorousplants #lanternflies #photography

Close photo of an early nymph of the Spotted Lanternfly, a highly destructive invasive species now spreading throughout the U.S. northeast, and in Connecticut.

A spot of trouble. Spotted Lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) early nymph. New Haven, CT, USA.
🧪🌿🌎 #sciart #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #sciphotography #sciphoto #scientificillustration #naturephotography #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #insects #InvasiveSpecies #Lanternflies #SpottedLanternfly

#gardening #bugs
#lanternflies #spottedlanternflies
I am getting ahead of these tree killing red spotted lantern flies..Took 2 years to get the system down pat but they’re not killing my beautiful Maple tree💪👊

Can Predator Bugs Replace Pesticides in the Fight Against Lanternflies? Spotted lanternflies have wreaked havoc on U.S. agriculture since their arrival in 2014, but Penn State researchers may have found unlikely allies: native insect predators. A new study reveals that stink...

Can Predator Bugs Replace Pesticides in the Fight Against Lanternflies? #Science #Biology #Ecology #PredatorBugs #Lanternflies #Pesticides

Loved this!
A friend commented on the hypocrisy of killing #LanternFlies (it was def my zeal for the task☺️🥸), the rest of season I moved any others to a tree w other egg masses. IKIK, they’re #invasive.
I had every intention of destroying them in the winter, but a #DownyWoodpecker ate them all!

Smashing
#art #painting #lanternflies