But the real cruelty of the spotted lanternfly is that it secretes a substance that when it comes in contact with just about any leaf, becomes caustic to that plant. These are Staples of the American agricultural scene. The bug not only goes after precious hop plants that are critical to beer manufacturing, but it also goes after grapes and grains, apples and corn. The reason this is noteworthy is that the bug each plant growth ravenously and goes after particular crops. For the first few years the population was unremarkable. Video: Erica Smyers, Penn State.Probably need a larger tin foil hat for this reach, but given the last few years and the open admissions of the CCP, is this too hard to believe?Īround 2014, the spotted lantern fly made its way from China via very uncertain routing and festered in the northeast of the United states. In the video above, you can see spotted lanternflies excreting honeydew. The presence of the fermenting odor and honeydew can attract other nuisance insects. Spotted lanternfly adult and a yellowjacket on a tree. Spotted lanternfly adult and a paper wasp on a tree. Honeydew produced by spotted lanternflies on foliage, with an adult spotted lanternfly. Honeydew produced by spotted lanternflies covers a stairway. Spotted lanternfly adults massing on grape. Spotted lanternfly adults massing on an apple tree. Photo: Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. Spotted lanternfly adults massing on a tree. Photo: Brian Walsh, Salix Springs Landscaping. The orange round objects are the antennae, located below the black eyes. Spotted lanternfly adult feeding on a twig. This combination of honeydew and sooty mold production has a negative effect on the quality of life for residents in the quarantine zone. Honeydew can also produce an odor of fermentation. Under high population pressure in residential areas in the PA quarantine zone, the volume of honeydew produced has some residents feeling like prisoners in their own homes, from late summer until the first hard freeze killing adult SLF. Sooty mold also inhibits the photosynthetic capacity of leaves and makes fruit unmarketable. No life stage of the SLF feeds directly on fruit, but South Korean grape and tree fruit growers found their crops unmarketable due to the growth of sooty mold on the skins. Honeydew-often misidentified as sap-shows up on outdoor equipment, decking, and vehicles as well as pets and your clothing and hair, and also acts as a growth medium for sooty mold.

First through third instar nymphs feed on young shoots of perennial and annual plants while the stronger-beaked fourth instar nymphs and adults are able to feed directly in older tissue.įeeding damage may both encourage secondary invaders and, though unknown at this time, encourage the spread of pathogens.īecause spotted lanternfly, a phloem feeder, consumes large quantities of a plant's sugary sap looking for nitrogen and amino acids, it expels large quantities of excess sugar (honeydew). Specialized mouth parts (the beak) of both nymphs and adults pierce through plant tissue and suck sap directly from the phloem of leaves, stems, branches, and trunks. SLF is a significantly important economic and lifestyle pest to residents, businesses, tourism, forestry, and agriculture.

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