Cornell University researchers recently estimated the financial damage a spotted lanternfly infestation could cause on Finger Lakes farms, and it breaches six figures. Using data from two key ...

Have you been seeing spotted lanternflies on your patio, in the garden or crawling on your vegetable plants? They look pretty harmless with spotted wings of tiny red and white dots but, boy, can ...

Pennsylvania State University undergraduate Taya Etters uses a micro-pippette to paint by numbers at the spotted lanternfly exhibit on Tuesday during Ag Progress Days. Etters said the activity was ...

The spotted lanternfly is a flying bug that first appeared in the U.S. in 2014 and has been wreaking havoc ever since. It's believed that they arrived on the Eastern Seaboard on a cargo ship from ...

Since Tree-of-heaven is a veritable Spotted Lanternfly magnet, the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) started monitoring a stand in 2021 to assess whether the bugs reached ...

This photo shows spotted lanternfly egg masses on a tree. Penn State Extension educator Thomas Ford urges people to identify the masses, scrape them off and dispose of them before they can hatch.