Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Today in civic duty

As seen on Ninth Street and Avenue A — a squished spotted lanternfly. (Thanks to Steven for the photo!

The "invasive pests" recently made an NYC return... prompting (reluctant?) kill/squish orders from city officials ... and fun headlines, like! 

 • Sex-crazed lanternfly invasion ramps up in NYC as insects look for mates (The Postnaturally!

 • In the Lanternfly War, Some Take the Bug’s Side (The Times

• On the hunt with New York’s spotted lanternfly squishers: ‘I came to kill’ (The Guardian)  

Read less tabloid-y ways to squish and dispose of these sex-crazed invaders (just another weekend night!) at the Parks Department site.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank you for posting this information, people need to understand the consequences of this invasive species.

Anonymous said...

I have to say that these lantern flies are really cool looking!! Too bad they are so destructive!!

Anonymous said...

Instead of killing these creatures, capture them and relocate them to Trump Tower. You can take a tax write off

Anonymous said...

I had only seen one of these up until this weekend, when I saw at least half a dozen. They don't fly like other bugs, they look like they're from another planet. . I'm on team squish!

Anonymous said...

These are all over FiDi. Like a locust invasion

Anonymous said...

Yes I have seen Spotted Lanternfly's all over the LES/EV and I have stepped on many of them but sometimes they fly away at the last minute before I can get my foot down. They are also very well camouflaged with the color of the top of their wings blending into the sidewalk. I also tried to drown one I found in the Hamilton Fish park swimming pool but after I splashed a lot of water on the insect it ended up flying away. It is a very resilient bug.

------m said...

saw many lantern flies on the jersey shore this past week - yuck!