They're baaaaaaack! Spotted Lanternflies have once again returned to the region for the summer, and experts say that unfortunately, this is the new normal.
They're baaaaaaack! Spotted Lanternflies have once again returned to the region for the summer, and experts say that, unfortunately, this is the new normal. "It’s just going keep working its way out," arborist Evan Dackow with Jolly Green Tree and Shrub Care said. "Every year is going to get worse for the next couple of years."Right now, the invasive insects are in their late nymph stage, characterized by a red body with white spots and black legs.
The spotted lanternfly was reported last summer in the Ronkonkoma area, but this year experts have already gotten calls for sightings 20 miles further in the Riverhead area."The tree of Heaven is their host tree, and it's everywhere you'll find it along the expressway, along the train tracks, in any disturbed soil," horticulture consultant Sandra Vultaggio with Cornell Cooperation Extension of Suffolk County said.
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