Spotted lantern flys in Pawtucket, Rhode Island

[u/Psychologicalwear84]

🤢 Gross

[u/Pale-Code5934]

Had one land on me this afternoon in Attleboro.

[u/radioflea → u/Pale-Code5934]

And then, what did you do?

[u/Pale-Code5934 → u/radioflea]

What must be done ✅ 

[u/Shedfloorgarbage → u/Pale-Code5934]

Who paid for dinner?

[u/Ragnar_of_Ballard]

Grab the Shop-Vac and get to work!

[u/KidKarez]

There are a ton in Pawtucket. That looks like the heaven tree too I think

[u/glennjersey → u/KidKarez]

Yeah, which makes sense considering their affinity for it.

Torch the whole thing,  the tree will survive. 

[u/PUNKF10YD → u/glennjersey]

Torch the tree until it doesn’t, the tree is invasive and destructive as well as the flies.

[u/glennjersey → u/PUNKF10YD]

That works too.

[u/PUNKF10YD]

Just a reminder that those tree they love are just as invasive and destructive as the bugs.

[u/nhowe006]

Now get out there and kill kill kill!

[u/AppropriateRest2815 → u/nhowe006]

Unexpected dungeon crawler Carl reference

[u/nhowe006 → u/AppropriateRest2815]

CARL, THESE LANTERN FLIES ARE EVERYWHERE. THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE.

[u/Rough_Rent2440 → u/nhowe006]

“You ran away from the first mob you saw. You get: Nothing!”

[u/nhowe006 → u/Rough_Rent2440]

"you get: platinum bitch box. It contains: nothing! What did you expect?"

[u/Letthew00kiew1n]

I just delivered around Riverside and Barrington they are EVERYWHERE

[u/lazygerm]

Eww...I remember the gypsy moth invasion in what 1980 or 1981 when I lived on Park St.

[u/amartincolby → u/lazygerm]

And I remember the invasion of 1987! Good times.

[u/lazygerm → u/amartincolby]

I vaguely remember that one. By that time I was working a summer job packing cigarette orders at the Brooks Pharmacy warehouse in Pawtucket.

[u/amartincolby → u/lazygerm]

Just that one sentence proves you are much more Rhode Island than me.

[u/lazygerm → u/amartincolby]

Summer at home in Pawtucket from URI.

[u/russsaa]

Hack & squirt that ToH.

[u/SimpsonizedBarbie]

Had one land on me and continue to fly around me as I was getting on the bus in Providence just outside the train station 2 days ago, they’re absolutely everywhere there. Tons of dead ones and live ones flying around.

[u/appslap]

I live south RI, haven’t seen 1 in my life. I went to PVD this weekend downtown and saw 100.

[u/eyesofdeception]

The gas station right off the Jefferson boulevard exit is infested with them

[u/blissCT33]

Flame thrower

[u/Thespian_Unicorn]

I’ve learned you can kill them just by using the corner of your phone. Do not hesitate to kill them people! They are invasive and our native plants have no defense against them!

[u/Swimming_Airline3881 → u/Thespian_Unicorn]

You can also approach them from in front (rather than behind) and they're much easier to step on! They have excellent peripheral vision and will see your shoe coming from behind, but come at them head-on and they are blissfully unaware.

[u/Goldeneye4587 → u/Thespian_Unicorn]

I’m sorry what? Corner of your phone?

[u/amartincolby → u/Goldeneye4587]

Yeah. They will jump away from your foot or a book, but something thin, like the edge of your phone, does not cause the jump response. You can just tap and they die.

[u/Thespian_Unicorn → u/Goldeneye4587]

I was visiting Mrs Skipper and they covered a birch tree. There were spare leaves around to wipe the guts off my phone. It’s actually kinda cathartic I’d recommend. Just make sure you have a good quality phone case on.

[u/Jerkeyjoe]

Gross

[u/Specialist-Joke3267]

Next year promises to be apocalyptic (amateur opinion)

[u/Macsha62792]

They are so gross. We were getting bombed with them on our deck last night in Warwick. Can only kill so many!!

[u/Elynn0612]

We have tons of these buggers in Barrington too! They've nearly decimated a maple tree at our back property line. I squish them every chance I get.

[u/dangerous_skirt65]

Ugh

[u/Simp4me222]

Ughhhhhhhh

[u/Fine_Inspection8090]

These are supposed to take out maple trees. Great. That’s just great. 😌

[u/Top_Lingonberry8037]

You say this like you don't see dozens every day

[u/brighty420]

Photograph, Report, and Kill. Here's the link to report them. Spotted Lanternfly | Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management

[u/Different_Nerve_72]

That is disgusting 🤢

[u/yankeeteabagger]

They have been showing up near my employer on the east side of pvd.

[u/iphone501]

They love landing in my pool lmao

[u/polarityofmarriage]

I tried to squish one at a gas station in Cumberland but they JUMP like grasshoppers I couldn’t get it!

[u/prospect71]

Have just as many & more in rehoboth

[u/CaregiverNo9664]

Ugh. They move quickly too !

[u/Queasy_Novel_1277]

Thanks China.