Just saw a lanternfly climbing on a pigeon, might go throw up now.

#lanternflies #Queens #theyareeverywhere

I saw maybe 5 spotted #lanternflies last year in #Pittsburgh. This year I've seen hundreds already. I've given up on killing them. Seems like we need to find some other way to deal with them, or just live with them.

#lanternflies spread in #Virginia
Fairfax Co. sees more spotted lanternflies — and they’re getting ready to lay eggs - WTOP News
https://wtop.com/fairfax-county/2023/08/fairfax-co-sees-more-spotted-lanternflies-and-theyre-getting-ready-to-lay-eggs/

I hope #lanternflies are non-toxic, because Rocketboy just caught and ate one.

Happy to spot this lovely Lanternfly (genus Dichoptera) at Upper Seletar Reservoir Park, Singapore, on 16 April 2023.

On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/155115532 ]

#iNaturalist #Nature #Singapore #Photography #Insects #Lanternflies #Fulgoridae #TrueBugs #Hemiptera

Have you heard about this wonderful 9-year-old citizen #scientist who was servicing the world by not only stomping out invasive, dangerous #lanternflies and also collecting samples for research?

~ Neighbors called the cops on her ~

...complaining of a "little Black woman, walking and spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees”

Well, happy ending-- Bobbi was later recognized by Yale for her efforts (see image below) 🎉

Of the incident, her mother said, "“I wanted it to be a teachable moment. This same call could’ve happened in another state with another police officer, and I would be grieving.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/02/nyregion/bobbi-wilson-lanternfly-yale.html

#America
#racism
#ecology
#CitizenScience

#lanternflies
#crazywhitewomen
#bobbiwilson

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/02/nyregion/bobbi-wilson-lanternfly-yale.html

Go Bobbi Wilson!!!!! #lanternflies

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/02/nyregion/bobbi-wilson-lanternfly-yale.html

Bobbi Wilson, 9, was hunting for spotted #lanternflies, an invasive species, in New Jersey. A neighbor called the police, but her effort has since earned recognition “from far and wide,” her mother said | #yale #children #NJ @nytimes https://nyti.ms/3wMNaet