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Post by brownrexx on Jul 28, 2020 6:53:49 GMT -5
I had them all over my maple tree last year and I saw them on the deck but they didn't bother my garden last year. I think that they caused a lot of damage to the PA grape crops but I don't grow grapes.
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Post by brownrexx on Jul 29, 2020 19:13:19 GMT -5
Bad news pepperhead212 we were sitting in our sun room this afternoon when we saw a bug on the outside of the window. It was a Lantern Fly adult! Aghhh, it was the first adult I have seen and then later I was picking LL Okra and I saw 2 nymphs on the leaves. I tried to smash them but they jumped away. I don't know if they were eating or just sitting there. My okra are not near any trees either. These things jump all over the place and do not just fall out of trees. It's not good.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Jul 29, 2020 19:45:51 GMT -5
I'm watching closely for them, brownrexx, and didn't see any more here. They have to be around, however. I've also told some others to watch for them on their trees. My cousin, up in Bucks county, just started seeing them last fall, and everywhere this year.
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Post by brownrexx on Aug 24, 2020 11:16:56 GMT -5
I am seeing tons of them landing on my deck. Last night we were using the gas grill and killing lantern flies with a fly swatter at the same time. They are gross and they just kept landing. I don't know how may we killed - probably about 20. Every time I go out there I kill at least 10 of them but I have not seen them on our tree trunks so I don't know exactly where they are coming from.
Good news - hubby saw our chickens grabbing and eating the ones that they find on the grass. I have also heard that catbirds have been seen eating them. I am hoping that local birds and animals may be adapting to eat them. I have also seen a few in spider webs.
Sadly I keep seeing reports of birds getting stuck to those sticky tapes that people put around their trees. I will not use those.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Aug 24, 2020 16:53:32 GMT -5
I just saw another yesterday, but only one, though I know there is never just one of any type of insect! And I still don't see them on the trees around here. They must be up high.
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Post by brownrexx on Sept 5, 2020 15:38:45 GMT -5
They are flying all over the place and are truly horrible. They are large so you can see them flying towards you and they land on your back or neck and it's creepy. I have been killing about 50 a day on my deck with a fly swatter and they just keep coming. Here is a pic of just one post on my deck and they ALL look like this every time I go out there. I kill all that I see and when I go back out, there are just as many more of them. Spotted Lantern Fly by Brownrexx, on Flickr This is what it looks like at the windows. Spotted Lantern Flies by Brownrexx, on Flickr
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Post by pepperhead212 on Sept 5, 2020 17:26:34 GMT -5
OMG, that is terrible brownrexx! I still see very few, even yesterday, when I harvested all of those squash blossoms, and was looking for any kinds of bugs! I killed a couple recently on my cherry tomatoes, but still no huge numbers, like some areas. They have to be falling from these nearby trees, even though I don't see them on those, when I check.
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Post by brownrexx on Sept 5, 2020 17:30:55 GMT -5
I found a bunch crawling up the trunk of our silver maple so I sprayed that but I don't find them falling out of trees they just seem to be flying through the air everywhere I go. They don't fly far they just seem to rise up out of the grass and fly 20 or 30 feet and land on something, sometimes it's me. I really hate these things although I have not seen any in the garden.
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Post by octave1 on Sept 5, 2020 20:32:35 GMT -5
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Post by brownrexx on Sept 5, 2020 20:36:18 GMT -5
Might not be a bad idea for those flying at me octave1, I am killing about 50 a day on my deck with a regular flyswatter. They are just sitting all over the place!
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Sept 6, 2020 9:52:16 GMT -5
I can see you now, running all over the yard, enthusiastically swinging your zapper in pursuit of lantern flies. Sounds like a good workout and possibly some really fun footage if someone were to film you doing it.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Sept 6, 2020 12:05:23 GMT -5
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Post by brownrexx on Sept 6, 2020 12:47:27 GMT -5
I think that I'll just stick to a manual, regular fly swatter!
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Post by brownrexx on Sept 8, 2020 17:20:53 GMT -5
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Sept 9, 2020 8:40:40 GMT -5
Ewww. Sorry you are having to deal with this.
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Post by brownrexx on Oct 4, 2020 20:47:15 GMT -5
I was driving home today and saw this tree near where I live. Look at the ones on the ground just waiting to crawl up onto the trunk. These things are just gross! Spotted Lantern Flies 2020 by Brownrexx, on Flickr
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Post by september on Oct 5, 2020 10:08:50 GMT -5
That's awful! Looks like there isn't a good predator for them here. I wonder what keeps them in check where ever they came from?
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Post by brownrexx on Oct 5, 2020 11:25:04 GMT -5
september, there is a grad student at Penn State working on a project to see which birds may be eating them but I don't think that there are many who find them appetizing. There is also a theory that they taste bitter but I have not checked that out myself! I saw one of our chickens eat one just once but none of the others touched them. I believe that Penn State may be working on a bacteria that will kill them. I hope so. This is how they got the Gypsy Moths under control several years ago. As of now people are dumping pesticides on them which concerns me because I am not sure that they are being used responsibly. Some people are having their trees injected with a systemic pesticide in the spring and this is better because only insects trying to suck sap from the tree will die. I may check this out for our Maple tree next year.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Oct 5, 2020 11:30:19 GMT -5
There are a few natural predators in China, the most important of which is the eupelmid wasp Anastatus orientalis, which parasitizes the eggs of the spotted lantern fly.
Apparently the eupelmid wasp is being evaluated under quarantine in both South Korea and the U.S. as a possible means of biological control. The concern (as with any other introduced biological control) is that the eupelmid wasp would also become an invasive species, attacking native insects.
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Post by brownrexx on Oct 7, 2020 14:37:19 GMT -5
I just heard today that eating the Lanternflies can be toxic to dogs and that it causes seizures. Stepping on them can also burn their foot pads and cause them to crack open.
These things are awful in so many ways.
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Post by september on Oct 7, 2020 15:00:00 GMT -5
Oh, groan! As far as I know, we don't have them here yet, but with swarms the size of yours, it's likely a matter of time.
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Post by brownrexx on Oct 7, 2020 15:59:31 GMT -5
Oh, groan! As far as I know, we don't have them here yet, but with swarms the size of yours, it's likely a matter of time. They are definitely moving across the country but slowly. Hopefully there will be a treatment in the near future.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Jun 21, 2021 16:40:01 GMT -5
I'm getting a lot more of these this season, and I'm finding them on my dill, cucumbers and gourds, and eggplants. And the Surround does not bother them at all - they are usually on the undersides, where I spray very well with Surround. I don't really see any damage to the plants (though I know bugs spread disease, esp. on cucumbers), but I don't know what they would be doing. I have not seen any at all on my tomatoes, peppers, or okra, yet. I might spray with pyrethrin, late in the day after the bees are back in their hives, if they get any worse.
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Post by brownrexx on Jun 21, 2021 18:08:09 GMT -5
I have not seen any in the garden so far
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Post by brownrexx on Sept 18, 2021 12:01:31 GMT -5
I have not seen any in the garden so far Guess that I spoke too soon. I am still not seeing them in the garden but all of my sunroom windows look like this September 8, 2020 by Brownrexx, on Flickr This is a picture from last year but it looks the exact same this year. I just came in from the deck after applying my organic control (flyswatter) to about 50 of them. I know that this is a drop in the bucket but that's at least 50 that will not be able to reproduce and I do this every couple of days. I do think that it's a losing battle but I do what I can.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Sept 18, 2021 15:07:09 GMT -5
All I can hope is that a cold winter kills some of these off; I'm thinking that our mild winter last season may be the result of their explosion this season.
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Post by brownrexx on Sept 18, 2021 15:17:44 GMT -5
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What happened to the delete button that we used to have?
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Post by brownrexx on Sept 18, 2021 15:22:02 GMT -5
I'm thinking that our mild winter last season may be the result of their explosion this season. Unfortunately the adults will die but the egg masses that they lay high up in trees will be able to withstand freezing. They are coated with some protective substance. I think that you are seeing more of them this year because they are spreading rapidly and once they get established in an area they seem to explode because they have no natural predators. I was just outside pulling a few weeds and the horrible things were landing on me. They have some instinct that tell them to climb upwards which is why they are at the tops of all of my windows but when they land on your back, you don't feel it until they climb up onto your neck. Aghhh, I hate that! They are a type of big leaf hopper and jump all over the place as well as flying.
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Post by brownrexx on Oct 4, 2021 18:09:31 GMT -5
How bad are the Spotted Lantern Flies in your area now pepperhead212 , I am seeing hundreds of them. I am killing about 50 a day with a fly swatter on my little deck. They are horrible things and they are big so you can see them flying through the air. They only fly short distances and then land, sometimes on us. It is creepy because if one lands on my back it starts climbing and when it reaches my neck I feel it , jump and swat at it. I hate these things and there are lots of them at the top of my sunroom windows on the screens. Tonight I killed 5 of them with just one swat. My garden is 100% organic but I had to forget that idea when dealing with these things. I sprayed my large silver maple tree trunk with insecticide. Some people are using those sticky tapes around the trunks but I will not do that. I have seen too many photos of poor birds getting caught. The ones that I am killing are starting to turn yellow on their abdomens which means that they are developing eggs which they will lay on trees. I know that 50 a day is not a lot to kill but each one of those that I kill will never lay an egg mass. It's the best I can do along with spraying the maple trees with a contact insecticide. I see lots of dead ones on the ground who would have climbed that tree and laid their eggs. September 8, 2020 by Brownrexx, on Flickr
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Post by pepperhead212 on Oct 4, 2021 18:28:10 GMT -5
Not that many here, but still showing up on my okra! I'm wondering if I am going to have to cover them next year. I still look for them, but don't really see many in clusters, fortunately. But they obviously are, somewhere.
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