The invasive, tree-killing insects arrived in Pennsylvania in 2012, and they’ve quickly spread across the U.S. Northeast.
Travis explained that APHIS has found that spotted lanternfly egg masses cannot deal with cold temperatures. They’d have an especially hard time surviving in an area that has an average temperature under 57 degrees Fahrenheit .over 95 Fahrenheit , according to TravisSo though the bugs may happily harass New England, it’s not likely that we’ll find an abundance of spotted lanternflies in Northern Canada, unless they adapt to much lower average temperatures, Hoover noted.
Large swaths of northwest and north central states were found to be unsuitable for the lanternflies in 2019.
have done over time. “It is too soon to predict where in the U.S. this pest will become a permanent species,” Travis wrote.Hoover wouldn’t predict with confidence whether the spotted lanternfly takeover is now inevitable, but she did say they could be here to stay for some states.
. “We can keep the numbers down to a manageable level,” she said. “If I live next door to a vineyard, and I had lanternflies ... I would treat my trees. If I didn’t live next to anything that was going to be harmed by it, I wouldn’t bother.”
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