Kill-on-sight requests in New York City and elsewhere are a part of public campaigns to fight the invasive spotted lanternfly now massing and feeding on plants around much of the eastern U.S.
When Stephen Nixon recently noticed a “beautiful” spotted lanternfly by his bag as he skateboarded in Brooklyn, he heeded the request of city officials.“I don’t like killing things. Not many people do. I’ll catch and release cockroaches if I find them in my apartment,” Nixon said. But he said it “seems like something worse” if the insect's population explodes.
Across mid-Atlantic states, officials are asking people to help them track and slow its spread, even if they have to put their foot down.A native of Asia, the spotted lanternfly was first identified in the United States in 2014, northwest of Philadelphia. It's likely that insect eggs came over with a load of landscaping stones. Eight years later,in thirteen states, mostly on the East Coast, according to the New York State Integrated Pest Management program at Cornell University.
Spotted lanternfly fighters are doing everything from applying pesticides to cutting down trees of heaven, another invasive species that is a favored host of the spotted lanternfly. But public involvement is front and center. Heide Estes did just that after seeing a spotted lanternfly on a Sunday walk in Long Branch, New Jersey this month.
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