Everyone is doing their part.

Are you?

Glad these are gone from lower Manhattan now. I'm sure every maintenance worker is too

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Exactly that, the whole stomping thing is entirely for show. They're gone now because now is egg-laying season, if anyone actually cared to stop the lanternflies they'd start by putting sticky traps covered in chicken wire mesh on every tree of heaven in the metro area. They're mapped so why not start there? Or better yet, put a slow-killing herbicide (the one time glyphosate is good) into cuts on each tree AND wrap with sticky traps (e: in the spring when the eggs hatch), that way you get rid of nymphs and the host tree in one. The host tree is invasive and better to just plant a fast-growing native or another gingko.

Anything else is just false advertising and you might as well kiss Northeastern grape, apple, and stone-fruit production goodbye in the next ten years.

We have one of those trees in our backyard and a fuck ton of eggs in spots we can't reach. Tried reporting it but haven't heard back which leads me to believe that we will be even more fucked next year.

Staten Island should form an alliance with its sizeable population of turkeys.

Do you want to know more?

theyre gone for now, thery will return next year

🎶 Insects crawling all around/Insects squirming in the ground/Insects gooey squeaky chewy/Should I eat them?/No!/I’d rather stomp them/Hurt them, stomp them, stomp them while I dance! 🎶

a real life snake clubbing.

And in greater numbers

I'd vote for you if you would run for an office

And squirrels.

In jersey in your situation they would cut the tree down and destroy it

Even my cats learned to kill them when we’re outside lol they just jump up and catch em with their paws

They’re more lethargic and easier to kill now that the weather is colder IMO

What’s the end game for this anyway? What are the possibilities to eradicate them?

Service guarantees citizenship

that’s pretty morbid ngl

Where is that from.... It's really familiar

My cats were not into the two that got into my house

https://youtu.be/cTzItOizzlE

Probably many were detected and eliminated early before they became newsworthy or became entrenched, like preparedness paradox.

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I feel like letting chickens loose into green areas to eat them, like they do with goats in California to get rid of all the flammable stuff, would work pretty well.

Who is this making feel good? We’re normalizing and encouraging really disgusting behavior

Why is the truth always downvoted?

All you said is stepping on lantern flys won't effect the population.

This is a 100% absolute fact, yet it's downvoted -12.

I genuinely don't get it.

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These are all over southern brooklyn, especially fort hamilton area

Essentially 0%

https://riversideparknyc.org/goatham/

Not just in California, in NYC too!

Reminds me of that scene from starship troopers lol.

Here it is: https://youtu.be/5QmvEbphF8c

Fort Wadsworth is infested with them, if you don’t clean that up you can stomp all you want and it won’t do a thing.

I read this in the “children DYin’ in the schoools” voice until I realized it was something else

Kill enough of them to cut down the population and give the local fauna a chance to adapt and view them as food

We must meet this threat with our courage, our valor, indeed with our very lives to ensure that human civilization, not insect, dominates this galaxy NOW AND ALWAYS.

I'm from Buenos Aires and I say KILL EM ALL

if i recall right what should be done now besides stomping should be looking at trees for the egg streaks and scraping them off. just think of it as pre-emptively stomping a bunch at once.