OT: Seeing a lot of lanternflies in central NJ
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Another disgusting thing I've heard is that they actually emit a mist of "piss" so much that when in bunches, workers in trees like line workers, etc have to wear rain gear. Not kidding.
Here's the latest on research studies. Women from Cornell was up in Eastern Pa a few years ago working on this.
Here's the latest on research studies. Women from Cornell was up in Eastern Pa a few years ago working on this.
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Then there’s the “honey dew.” That’s entomologist talk for lanternfly urine. Lanternflies feed on sap and excrete sticky droplets of sugar-rich urine that rain down from infested trees so hard in some cases, people need rain coats to work in the area. The shellac of honey dew turns rancid over time and attracts swarms of bees, ants, and wasps. Finally, the coated understory becomes black with “sooty mold.”
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We've gotten stink bugs in abundance every year we've lived here, since 2015.. This year hasn't seemed particularly heavy, tbh. Only got a handful of cicadas, though. We did go to longhorn steakhouse in Flemington at one point, and a tree out front had like 200 cicadas in it.... Figured better there than in my yard.
Lantern flies, though, have been everywhere. There's a ton in my skimmer basket in the pool every day when I clean it out.
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It's funny in the back of our house where the Chickens and Turkeys roam, not a single stink bug. Front of the house is covered in stink bugs. Where I'm at in Howell they're bad every year. Didn't get a single Cicada this year, I was waiting for the buffet line to open, but it never happened. Like I said earlier not a single lantern fly and I've seen the egg sacks on my fruit trees before but the birds have free ranging in the orchard.
where is the sun on your house? my house warms from the back to front. SBs seem to develop on back after sun moves to front and back of house is warm . I'm sure I have a graveyard up in my attic where they crawl up from under and into the eve vents.
Bet those fowl take care of any tick issue.
Killed one at my feet in front of the emergency room at Clara Maas in belleville. My guess they set up shop in brookdale pk
These bastards love my sugar maple. The other maples they don't seem to bother with but I've been using a 2x4 to gently press them against the bark. Smack them too hard and you get splattered with their yellow-white ooze. I haven't tried wrapping the tree trunk yet, but I gotta try something else. I was able to crush about 70 of these in about 10 minutes but can't reach the higher parts of the tree and this is just taking too long.
I haven't seen then in some time, so they look like they are dying off. until next year. Crickets are in full effect however.
The red maple in front of my house is like a magnet for these little bastages. I didn't notice until I was setting up halloween decorations yesterday. There are egg masses all over the horizontal branches too
Might be time for a Super Soaker filled with Isopropyl Alcohol.Sun is in back never gets to front. They're all in the front, Chickens and Turkeys in the back. My little Raptors eat everything, mice, snakes, they're omnivores. Throw a Ham bone in their run and it'll be picked clean in an hour. As for ticks, in their free ranging pastures there's not a bug in sight, however, go into my woods and you'll come out with 3 to 4 on you.
You can catch a bunch of these without making a mess by taking a plastic bottle and holding the opening up to the lanternfly. Its natural instinct is to jump, so it'll jump right into the bottle.
Saw a shitton of them on the golf course last summer - only a handful this year.
Same here in Bergen County. I only saw 1 so far on my son's car tire. I seem to recall they only appeared from about now to September last year. Hopefully there are less this year.
I recall we had a bunch at and early game tailgate in Yellow.
I recall we had a bunch at and early game tailgate in Yellow.
The nymph/juvenile stages of the bug. As it grows it sheds its skin. The young lanternflies (earlier instars) look nothing like the adults.
The nymph/juvenile stages of the bug. As it grows it sheds its skin. The young lanternflies (earlier instars) look nothing like the adults.
You're way Smrter than me in bugology. ; )
Bug are gross. LOL. Maybe I'm just not seeing these ******* out yet then.
I saw a handful of them last year, but this year I've been killing them 10-20, sometimes 100 at a time. There are so many more this year. It's weird that they seem to cluster. I can walk down the street and see maybe 1 or 2 over 5 blocks, then a single block will have hundreds crawling and flying around.
Yesterday sitting at my desk in my Den I felt something on the back of my neck. I reached back and grabbed a lantern fly. I slammed the sucker on my desk then crushed it with a tissue. I'm thinking it came in when we let the dog out.
I had never seen one till tailgating last season. I've heard they've invaded the beaches this summer but haven't seen 1 yet.
Probably has to do with egg-laying and hatching pattern... or more locally, wind, sun, attraction by a smell of pollen of somehting they like. I'd expect it to go up and up year to year.. maybe some down years for harsh winters? Dunno how it works. But, hopefully, local birds and critters will learn they are food soon. Not something they have eaten for generations... eons.
Those "Trees of Heaven" are everywhere.. another invasive species... a lot grew in vacant lot clearings and along RR tracks.. these guys know that tree well.. from Asia..
lots of these in cities
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