Researchers are deploying a new weapon to slow the spread of invasive spotted lanternflies. The pests first detected in the U ...

The female lantern fly can lay between 30 and 50 eggs each, usually between September and October. The eggs hatch in the spring, where baby lanternflies called nymphs emerge, before becoming fully ...

Yet the spotted lantern fly, an invasive insect, continues to eat its way through more than a dozen states and counting along the East Coast and in the Midwest. For years, officials in states ...

"The first-string method is to use mechanical methods - swatting them or stomping them," That's the advice from Penn State Extension's lantern fly expert Emelie Swackhammer. They're so fast that ...

Officials in these states urge residents to look for and destroy lantern fly eggs before they hatch. The lanternflies could potentially harm plants. {{description}} Email notifications are only ...