Just saw a lanternfly near my herb garden. I am not happy at all! Once you see one, you know more are coming. While the adult lanternflies will die over the winter, they will lay their eggs between September and December which will start hatching the following May. When they lay their eggs, they don’t lay one at a time. There’s a bunch of them!
In the picture above, I am sharing the Spotted Lanternfly Life Cycle that I found on the PennState Extension website.
The below map was updated as of July 19, 2024 which I found on the Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences website. As far as the United States, spotted lanternflies have been found as far west as Iowa and south as North Carolina. The infestation is most concerning for the areas in red.
Spotted Lanternflies are terribly invasive “bad bugs” from Asia that need to be killed. I usually tramp on them or spray the with neem oil.
