Meet the Vigilantes Trying to Wipe Out the Spotted Lanternfly

The Spotted Lanternfly is an invasive species from China that’s been quietly multiplying and damaging plants in the U.S. since 2014. These civilians are on a mission to destroy them.
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[@phillheth]

Service guarantees citizenship.

[@ChaosMcCain]

Would you like to know more ?

[@TroyRubert]

For Buenos Aires

[@XD152awesomeness]

Lol this is a great comment

[@marqpsmythe228]

;D

[@professional_cynic98]

Can you explain further

[@rodneyechevarria7519]

Someone keep an eye on that kid enjoying it a little too much 😅

[@cikosphysicaltherapist6017]

Future serial killer alert

[@nolaray1062]

Definitely gonna be hiding bodies under floor boards.

[@pervasivedoubt150]

Oh please

[@eljefedonlee4783]

lmao the real comment I came searching for

[@phatnum17]

You never enjoyed killing bugs as a kid? I enjoyed it so much I became a exterminator..

[@HominidPetro]

"I'm probably gonna be squishin em for the rest of my life."

[@rockin_john6282]

From the mouths of babes.

[@HominidPetro]

@@rockin_john6282 they tell no lies

[@stealdst]

In 2070 this kids gonna be saying “I’ve been squishin these things for 50 yeahs”

[@MayaRavichandran]

Wise words

[@petersmythe6462]

I probably killed over a hundred of these pretty bugs in Philedelphia in a couple of days there. Problem is, you have to bring the fight to them. You need to bring the murder to areas where there aren't huge numbers of people. That means mobilizing people to rural nesting sights.

[@gahshjdjd8249]

Peter you're crazy mane 😅

[@amorag59]

We need to join together and fight our common enemy! This dumb fly and of course ticks.

[@HarbindBrar]

"The only good bug is a dead bug." - Starship Troopers

[@SumoNinja92]

Beat me to it.

[@ragnatouya5050]

World of the bug ...can't be stop ...so when

[@TheMajestyD]

damn you! i wanted to say this hahahaha

[@nedj10]

Great minds.

[@jakedill1304]

Right the first thing I kept thinking was for little kids smashing all the cockroaches in the propaganda videos :-)

[@tmmtohru]

No need for a bag, they just need a Chancla.

[@BIGGUNNDON]

Hahah

[@mikmillerrealtor]

😅😂😂😂

[@viceralman8450]

La chancla the ultimate weapon.

[@MajorV]

And if Filipino, it's the "tsinelas" . The chancla and tsinelas has homing capabilities and one of the arsenals mama boss has in her sleeves

[@juliogomez2749]

White people

[@lamdelmundo8492]

As an asian guy, i recommend bringing 50 year old asian dads there with slippers and rolled up newspapers. They'll get the job done 😂✌️

[@EyeonthePrize247]

💀💀💀

[@XiangYu94]

Literally a spec ops division of Asian slipper dudes would come in on choppers and dice them up real time

[@taylorbug9]

My boss is an old Asian man and I can attest to his affect big killing skills.

[@alexelmaleh3076]

The 624th Old Asian-American Dad Regimental Combat Team “The Bug Squishers” went into those woods with a mission to serve their country and their fellow man that balmy September morning, with a fire in their heart and an iron resolve. Their kill ratios are unmatched in army history, such is their legend.

[@alexb5812]

Bring a giant wok, rice and some seasoning

[@bruhdabones]

Usually PTSD is reason to *leave* war, but for her, it’s her reason to fight

[@phuckyoutube5927]

🤡

[@phuckyoutube5927]

@@bruhdabones you and everything about you you 🤡 Changed your comment too so you don't look like one. Nice.

[@bruhdabones]

@@phuckyoutube5927 what on earth are you talking about???

[@Jim-hk1el]

She’s a nursing student and “got PTSD” from the pandemic? She’s what’s wrong with society. Self-important, attention seeking suburban liberal women. Collectively responsible for the malaise we are experience as a society today.

[@bruhdabones]

@@Jim-hk1el what makes you think she’s attention-seeking or self important, and what does her ptsd have to do with it? Are you pro-lanternfly or something??

[@Valivali94]

8 year old me would have made that his life for a while.

[@Matt-fl8uy]

Agreed. We need to make this a full class!

[@SpaceRanger187]

You would think that this was an actual job if the problem is that bad

[@Matt-fl8uy]

@@SpaceRanger187 There might be a grant, but it likely will need genetic research to solve.

[@paleoguy2165]

Nah he’ll probably step up to lizards, then mice, they maybe cats and dogs. One day he’ll even do it to a human

[@CamSeanoaTolls26]

She's not the hero they asked for...but she's the hero they needed. The Black Widow

[@haze6647]

I love how the kids look so happy mutilating all those bugs, that future psychopath.

[@augustgreig9420]

More like the Camel Toe Killer

[@ricardosilva4940]

Need? "Its here to stay". Not clear enough? Just accept and dont waste your time.

[@thejoker-kd8xi]

A hero we needed? sucka this is cruel not what a hero would be

[@residentevil4life]

the issue with lanternflies is that they are incredibly agile at avoiding getting stomped on and are capable of hiding and laying eggs high above trees and even buildings. I am not surprised how rapidly they are reproducing and spreading everywhere.

[@johndor7793]

Not to mention there's never going to be enough people to keep squishing them periodically. I think its a big waste of time. Setting up traps everywhere is the way to go.

[@christo930]

I saw one of these things yesterday in PA in the middle of a city.

[@Humster]

"Walking over with shocker racket" *Nothing personal bug...*

[@hawkinatorgamer9725]

All the dislikes are from spotted lanternfly's.

[@alkaliaurange]

and from PETA employees

[@MrSpot41]

Beezzz...bzzzz...bbzbbzzzzzx..zzxx..

[@TJXD]

@@alkaliaurange I think peta cares more about animals then bugs lol

[@romellologan5286]

@@TJXD PETA is the biggest hypocrites ever. Believe it or not PETA slaughters more animals than any other organization. And that because they have so many animals in they're possession lol

[@TJXD]

@@romellologan5286 yeah was kinda just a lul. 🙄

[@nahsik]

I love how the kids are involved. Probably more excited than the parents to squish em up.

[@Darkdragon5544]

Watch the first few minutes from the first Starship troopers movie...

[@bigbelix]

how to get kids working for free, essentially little slaves running around doing pest control.

[@kimmosanky7353]

Good way to teach kids that insects should be killed. They dont understand the difference between invasive species and your local insects.

[@judithrochin256]

Yes, get them killing when they are young so they can grow up to think it is normal and good to kill creatures that don't look like you.

[@maxzak5310]

i dont it's a good idea to teach this to kids , they might go for animals next

[@BronzDano]

Blind date Girl to guy: do you have any hobbies? Guy: yeah, I snowboard…write poems…play guitar…How about you, what is your biggest passion? Girl: I squish bugs…

[@MasterDewey]

2:40 Host- "How does it make you feel squishing them?" "Powerful. But mostly I don't feel anything." - Future Sniper

[@ondrejbordovsky7752]

I would invite airsoft players, gave them biodegradable BBs and let them kill all those bugs

[@ExponentMars]

that would be great target practice :D

[@Ericthered21]

I think they are already biodegradable

[@kapitan762x54R]

@@Ericthered21 depends on local laws I think. In sweden thry all are but idk about like... china. Or texas or some other wierd places.

[@EricHamm]

​@@kapitan762x54R Lol, you think with worldwide shipping that there is a system in place in Sweden to confiscate any purchases of regualr AS BBs? Do you know how hard it is to find out where they are illegal? I do because I just spent 5 minutes looking and it is just a bunch of airsoft websites selling bbs. Would need to some resources like a legal assistant. Knowing where it is legal would be next to impossible for the common man. Good intentions, but if they are not banned from being made, there is no way anyone is gonna get a fine for it especially if it takes place on private land.

[@kapitan762x54R]

@@EricHamm ok. Then I guess it's just my retailer? Idk.

[@nicholasyong7051]

trust me just bring an asian parent to your hunts, they are the best bug killers ever existed in our lifetime

[@SomethingSeemsOff]

When my niece was 4 years old, a moth came into my sister's house. My niece freaked out at first, but I tried to explain to her that this kind of moth was harmless so we could just catch it and take it outside or squash it. She immediately grabbed a book on the shelf and slammed the poor little dude. I was caught off-guard and she just looked at me like, "can we play dolls now?"

[@jeremyblackwater439]

🤣🤣🤣

[@harvardblu7719]

😂😂😂😜

[@eddydiyartcraft6780]

😂😂😂🤣🤣

[@geoffsaunderson5766]

Yeah what a lovely little sociopath your bringing up! 👍

[@renderuntocaesarwhatiscaes2300]

That kid is my spirit animal no seriously even as a little dude i hated bugs anything crawling and or looks alien like should be smashed on sight!! I totally agree with her lol

[@takkiejakkie5458]

Finally Vice reports about a likeable group of vigilantes.

[@paleoguy2165]

How tf is this likeable? Trying to drive a species extinct!? Every other extinct animal we mourn but this is encouraged?

[@JavierChiappa]

I have strong "do your part" starship troopers meme vibes.

[@KillerLettuce]

That woman is venting some built up frustration from being a healthcare working the past year, no doubt.

[@JaredJonesAZ]

I live across the street from their favorite habitat, a mature so-called 'tree of heaven" (or ghetto palm) in an urban Philly neighborhood. We seem to come across more dead bugs then alive this summer. They are being crushed by humans, shredded by cats, caught up in sticky traps, and just generally being attacked from all angles. They came here escaping the pesticides and park ranger death squads in the rural fringe. Their attempt to find refuge in the city is failing, and the tree itself is just a trap to make them easier to find and kill.

[@thejoker-kd8xi]

Fr someone in my life I can actually agree on in stuff like this.

[@ciaragarrity6425]

Jesper, that is interesting, because I was told that the tree helps it get food and survive and reproduce. It is a host plant. If what you are saying is true I wish to know what it looks like where you are. You should make a video about the latternfly, and if you and others have controlled it, then that would be amazing.

[@NYBrandywineTree]

Those trees are invasive… cut em all

[@PL8ceMoneyHere]

Leaving just one; genius. Easy targets!!!

[@MrBigCookieCrumble]

Boogey-trap the tree with sticky traps and such. Their home turned to their worst nightmare, a honeypot habitat for the little blighters.. Lure them in and eradicate!

[@laskey2175]

"I'll be squishin em for the rest of my life." - Kid That is how an invasive species works.

[@rocco3560]

Please don't tell me you feel sorry for the bugs 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤷👁️

[@chirya_786]

@@rocco3560 What even indicated that in their comment?

[@paleoguy2165]

@@rocco3560why wouldn’t you? Just because they’re small does it mean they aren’t living things? They aren’t robots they’re living breathing feeling animals

[@BobbyBologna]

I'll probably be squishing the rest of my life.

[@mondohill8291]

Bouta grab my Salt Gun and go on a rampage!

[@robbieb.6195]

"This is the spotted lanternfly. It looks totally harmless." *Looks totally harmful*

[@DantexSmith]

Appreciate yall showing more and more conservation movements. We need it now more than ever

[@chewy99.]

Hopefully it doesn’t get lost on some people and they just start killing native insects.

[@arkitect156]

Here in P.A alot of our wild life started eating them, we also have people hunting them like this. In fact this year the later flies are really dwindling right now. They are attempting to move to the city for heat and alot of the animals there are killing them too

[@ceanosclips1607]

I never seen them in the Poconos all I see now are nasty stink bugs

[@strength9621]

@@ceanosclips1607 lucky down in Allentown we got them in that heavy first wave but the numbers have dwindled down since then

[@ceanosclips1607]

@@strength9621 well atleast that's good them things look nasty lol

[@Ass_of_Amalek]

really? they look poisonous.

[@clintrichardsonclintfromny203]

The Democrats will protect them.

[@Redlight25]

The only good bug is a dead bug

[@everythingisfine9988]

I'm from Buenos Aires, and I say kill 'em all!

[@Mostaism]

That salt rifle is the most fun you can have killing bugs. Works perfect in Australia, where most of the most common critters around the house are venomous. Just don't point it at people. It bloody hurts, and it literally rubs salt into the wound

[@ter8901]

aww shes so cute and wholesome hunting for them. getting 200 kills a day sounds hardcore 😊

[@grimx5772]

If they aren’t poisonous these bugs can be great for feeding lizards pets and chicken farm

[@paroxy1119]

@Gregory Magyar Hes not talking about farming the flies, he’s talking about using them as food for pets or poultry

[@ib7566]

@@paroxy1119 Who's gonna catch them all?

[@Briggsian]

That could pose problems in terms of parasites and bacteria on the lanternflies infecting the animals you're feeding them to

[@Noodlepunk]

They should get some chickens and release them. My friend had a elder bug infestation she got chickens and they are no more.

[@ExponentMars]

@@ib7566 ash ketchum, he's gotta catch em' all!

[@timexkills65]

That kid was right he probably would be squishing them his whole life

[@k_froggy]

You know years ago i used to hang out with this crazy hippy guy who did this for trees and went and chopped down Alanthus trees because they were super invasive. For years we did it and didnt dent the population. We told everyone and no one cared how it was taking over the forests and ravines. All over Toronto these plants spring up and no one bats an eye, super invasive is an understatement. And now we have this bug, whose preferred food is alanthus trees... go figure. Maybe if they cared back then it woulnt have been such an issue now.

[@Rinsuki]

No one cares until it is a big problem. Like in medicine, the best medicine is preventative care. There are many barriers, but laziness and apathy shouldn't be the reason.

[@omgblk23]

Prevention doesn’t bring the big bucks according to the companies and most times to solutions so simple people doubt that it’s actually the cause “wouldn’t they have done it already”

[@bunymustard2584]

Did anyone else have Spotted Lantern Fly on their 2021 apocalypse bingo 🤔 🤣 That kid definitely said "I'll be doing this the rest of my life." Really F*king ominous Vice this was much needed for everyone right now 👏🏾🙃

[@claudiaperea]

I thought that same thing with that kid. Like, bruh, for real. 😒

[@robynmasters335]

I thought the kid was kind of funny. Common enough for young boys.

[@paleoguy2165]

Yeah notice how Jeffrey dahmer originally started off by killing tadpoles (about the same moral level as killing bugs) and look where dahmer is now. Dead, taking dozens of innocents with him

[@MpDeuce3]

Someone keep on eye on lil pauly🥶👣

[@jeremyblackwater439]

😂

[@maluinthe90s]

"The only good bug is a dead bug!" No quarter given!

[@clemenshampel]

Starship troopers as i recall the film

[@maluinthe90s]

@@clemenshampel you would be correct!

[@stefpix]

One year later, there are more lanternflies than ever. This did not age well

[@dmitch1991]

They aren't going away. We also have an invasive tree from china known as "stairway to heaven". The lanternflys live in these trees. The trees are everywhere, they grow like weeds, very fast, tall, and the roots go very deep into the ground, their roots steal water from native trees. Also - the lanternfly eggs survive through the winter freeze and they hatch in the spring. We are screwed.

[@chadtodd4178]

I just want to be the first kid on my block with a confirmed kill

[@marcm2668]

Thats from a documentary right?

[@JerseyDevils21]

​@@marcm2668full metal jacket

[@horatiokim7141]

The fact that we get free documentaries on KZbin by VICE News is truly a gift. 👍

[@kentonbenoit9629]

I was pretty upset at the time though 😢

[@remopiccioni9456]

For the record I do not hate bugs. I just hate invasive ones.

[@mareekatz]

As a Pennsylvania resident I've been a spotted lantern fly eliminator. !!!!!!

[@reelskey3001]

Marie, how many lanterflies have you step on?

[@brianbrewster6532]

If someone told me back 50 years ago (when I was a little boy) that there will come a day where it's perfectly normal to go around purposely killing a particular bug, I'd have been in shock. But yet here we are in 2021. I first learned about the Spotted Lantern Fly only back in late spring and found that odd so few other people ever heard of this menace that has been terrorizing the U.S. as far back as 2014. Which begs the question, why isn't this problem getting more sensationalism in the news? Also, trying to explain this "killing bugs is good" act to my six year old daughter was unbelievably difficult, and she is deathly afraid of bugs to begin with. So yea, there is a moral dilemma with some folks I suppose.

[@joshuagross3151]

Consider it from the farmer's perspective. You put your blood, sweat, and tears into cultivating a proper orchard for _years,_ only to see it decimated by a flying pest that doesn't belong here to begin with.

[@yankee2110]

Remember the gypsie mouth? My god. I remember a whole side of the road missing its leaves as millions crossed the road.

[@mattb9664]

It's because the towns all across the country don't want to be responsible for having to become professional pest control, so they are putting it on the residents to handle the burden.

[@joshuagross3151]

@@mattb9664 To be fair, the last time my state took care of an invasive pest problem, they dumped toxic chemicals into all the local ponds and streams, wiping out everything. Well, everything _but_ the fish they were trying to kill. Those little bastards are still around. If the alternative to them burning whole forests down to kill flies is me using my foot, I'll gladly pick up that responsibility. We _just_ got the Potomac back in order. No need for more mass decimation.

[@mattb9664]

Cheapest, easiest and fastest, with least amount of labor! That's why they are putting it on the residents.

[@FL_ace33458]

In South Florida: Meet the vigilantes trying to wipe out the Invasive Iguanas

[@ExponentMars]

ngl she shouldn't feel bad for killing the bugs - she kills them really fast(), she's helping her community, and also most insects are not intelligent enough to feel pain, or have emotions.

[@slickman5969]

but maybe they do...(vsause music)

[@Starlightseekers]

@@slickman5969 this was great lol

[@EricHamm]

Bugs do not have nerves like vertebrates.

[@portofthoughts4477]

@@EricHamm That's not true, studies have been done showing even just fruit flies show sensitivity in legs that were previously injured. Study published by Science Advances it's called "Nerve Injury drives a heightened sense of vigilance and neuropathic sensitization in Drosophila". Science always changes.

[@Brickkzz]

Imagine advanced aliens arriving to Earth and justifying exterminating humans because their sense of pain and sentience is so much more complex than humans.

[@J.Schooley]

That kid who was delighted by squishing them needs to be monitored lol

[@jamesonvparker]

Stands in the woods in the dark: “I am Bugman” 🦹‍♂️

[@georgegoddiess9173]

Lol my friend was telling me about the importance of killing these bugs. We saw one in a shopping center and he took off his fucking shoe and wailed it.

[@avalauren4731]

😂

[@zackthrockmorton7379]

“It’s kind of satisfying” has me

[@Rinsuki]

Remember to squish the eggs this spring. It looks like chipped paint, mold, or clay on flat surfaces including plants or structures found in the yard. They will emerge late April or May. Squish away!

[@keeanmorishita8457]

We need to develop that subconscious drive to squash these like we do mosquitoes. This will take the entire community

[@ezio_auditore5425]

Some of these kids are future Jeffrey dahmers.....

[@josephstalin7353]

Invasive species disrupt the entire ecosystem. It's like bringing rabbits to Australia or cats to the Pacific islands. There's no natural predator to keep them in check so they multiply and put all the other species at risk.

[@ezio_auditore5425]

@@josephstalin7353 Ok, but It's not the necessity of killing the bugs, its the joy they get in it. That's why I made my comment.

[@johnsoutherland3403]

Most pansexual,sexually ambiguous, alphabet pronoun, weird leftist are.

[@Anactualfungus]

@@johnsoutherland3403 go outside

[@PhilliesNostalgia]

I was with my Mom in a Gloucester Township park on two separate days, and we had to have gotten well over 100 of them both times. She also gets a lot at her office in Voorhees

[@TSTRUSS]

3:37 I was not expecting the calm narrator lady to say that

[@jamesonvparker]

Used to call these vampire bugs. But they weren’t this damn big where I grew up.

[@Benni777]

The term “dropping like flies” has a new meaning to me now 💀

[@Darkdragon5544]

Queue in the intro from Starship troopers with the kids going "I'm doing my part!"

[@z363652798]

Everybody gangster till they meet the kid torturing lantern flies

[@RoloPnuts]

One dies, dozens more are guaranteed to take its place HAIL HYDRA!

[@tifoil]

I didnt thought I would be interested in an 8 minute video about killing bugs, but here I am

[@edgychico9311]

Some German old WW2 vet dude : "Hans, bring mir den Flammenwerfer!"

[@Fooludontknowme]

Or elon musk

[@duckfanatic]

you mean a nazi?

[@edgychico9311]

@@duckfanatic yes but you shouldn't use the word Nazi cuz it is sensitive to other people.

[@dylankersten3383]

@@edgychico9311 well, that is what all of them were, though most were just people that were already serving.

[@duckfanatic]

@@edgychico9311 not really but okay, its such a widely used term and calling them german ww2 vets make them sound nicer than they really are. its like erasing history.

[@VpKing]

Id let Mandy squash me

[@michaellee4463]

😶

[@princesskiriko2009]

05:05 she's literally a queen omg 🥰 I'd let her step on me too 🥴💕

[@Xainfinen]

"Oh! It's still alive, step on it again." That girl 😂 and SImon is like "KILL 'EM ALL" 🤣

[@QuasiTraction]

I feel that way about sugar ants, and the infested timber and fruit that came from South America over the last 20+ years. I had to remove two cherry trees from my yard, because they infested the trees over a 7 year period.

[@thedevilsadvocate5210]

You must have been sad to lose your cheery trees. That’s too bad Did you get rid of the ants?

[@ciaragarrity6425]

I never knew that bug existed, thank you for informing me.

[@supme7558]

If there black there not sugar ants

[@headerahelix]

In 1912 Toronto held a fly killing competition which was pretty successful. Why not do the same with lantern flies, offer a monetary reward for x amount of flies killed.

[@incisive1896]

Lol then some smart guy will start breeding em

[@cookies888100]

@@incisive1896 absolutely right! Their was a similar pest problem with snakes in british india, so they offered rewards for killing them.... and then people started breeding the snakes. so when they called off the program, all the breeders released their snakes (since no point in breeding them) and they ended up with MORE snakes

[@headerahelix]

@@incisive1896 The reward was so small only kids really bothered to do it for the reward.

[@headerahelix]

@@cookies888100 Snakes are good, so, good. :)

[@dadougler]

I believe they did this with cobra some where then they found out some people where breeding them to turn in for the reward. They decided to stop giving out rewards and the breeder released them all.

[@hersheybrandon1421]

I've been using the assalt gun for over a year on these things!!! When they get to be their biggest form you have to get them a few times

[@athersuhail3211]

imagining going on a date and ask a girl what you do I am professional bug squasher

[@princesskiriko2009]

If i met a girl and she says she likes to step on bugs I'll be in love with her :3

[@The_Original_Man]

I fucking hate those bugs they are all over the Philadelphia and NYC area

[@skellymom]

The spiders around my house are doing their part. 🕷️❤️

[@reelskey3001]

Zombiemommy " how many lanterflies have you step on by count?

[@dragondancer1814]

I work in the part of our county that’s ground zero for the lanternfly plague and swatting or stomping them has become part of my routine, to the point where both my vehicles and various entrances to my house now have fly swatters at the ready. I’ve already destroyed the first fly swatter in my car going after swarms on the lamppost near where I park in the morning, and some of my coworkers took a fiendish delight in swatting or stomping them with whatever they had in hand (Ever seen somebody swatting lanternflies with a broom? It’s freaking hilarious!). The other day, I was moving the tomato cages and bean fences out from behind my shed because I had a tree-cutting crew coming out yesterday and I discovered a bunch of lanternflies clustered at the base of the silver maple behind my shed. To make things super gnarly, there were also a bunch of yellow jackets feeding on the lanternfly guck! (I am SO glad that tree was one of the ones that got cut down yesterday!). Now I just need to get rid of the yellow jackets-it turns out they’ve built a nest inside the house siding right outside my bedroom, YEECH!

[@steventhehistorian]

4:15 "The only good spotted lanternfly is a dead spotted lanternfly." That was a solid Starship Troopers reference!

[@aardeng]

My grandpa would love a bug killing club

[@troyjohnston6051]

"I've killed like 7,000 lantern flies... I'm not a monster, I would never harm a living being!"

[@NAITANNN]

“The only good bug is a dead bug” - Sun Tzu probably

[@matiashelios5214]

Imagine having the time to do this while throwing ziploc bags everywhere.

[@brett4264]

Thought this was gonna be an intentional comedy with that thumbnail. I had one of those salt guns. They didn't work that well. But.... This was really funny!

[@lordj.8962]

Really? my gun works great, I love it! I even got the laser dot sight for it and it works even better! lol I have the 3.0 version if that makes a difference 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@lordj.8962]

They also made a Co2 powered revolver style salt gun recently 😂

[@LisaGallegos]

My salt gun works well!

[@Eyes0penNoFear]

I love mine!

[@veronicafernandez5998]

Whenever I see an Asian long horn spotted beetle I make sure everyone near by takes a look before I kill it then I explain to them why it's so important. We need more flyers of bugs to kill on sight. Education is the best weapon

[@pjderouen]

I had no idea about these. They’re assholes of the highest order.

[@reelskey3001]

Veronica, how many beetles have you step on by count ❓ & How many lanterflies have you step on by count ❓

[@veronicafernandez5998]

@@reelskey3001 oh boy, atleast 10 I want to say. They arent super common if youre just doing day to day stuff but at the tree burning power plabts a bunch come in on thw wood or so ive heard

[@reelskey3001]

@@veronicafernandez5998 ⭐ Do you step & press on them, Or stomp on them to crush them up?

[@Killjoy0329]

They’re like the grunts from halo. Multiply way too quick, now we just need to make them into our cannon fodder

[@lazy_lefty]

That 7 year old boy was way too enthusiastic about how he kills the bugs lol his parents should keep an eye on him 😂

[@Legenderrydanny]

I would feed them to my praying mantis.

[@EricHamm]

Do you have 10 Billion matni ?

[@d.h.601]

plot twist, they're playing dead in the bottle and she just freed them all

[@liquid79]

How to kill a lantern fly with three ingredients. 1. One empty spray bottle that shoots in a stream. 2. 20% Dishwashing soap 3. 80% Water Spray those suckers dead.

[@gaminggator37]

How to kill one with nothing: Sneak up on it. Cover it with your hand Crush it

[@liquid79]

@@gaminggator37 goodluck climbing a grapevine tree and killing hundreds with your hand unless of course you're the... Hand Crusher!!! The biggest baddest crushiest hands in the west ✋💥👊 Can you sir come and erradicate my lantern fly infestation in my yard and garden?

[@EvanzAirspace]

When I went to Hershey park in pensilvania in August. It was hell! There were so many they were starting to BREAK the Ferris wheel.

[@sergiodelburquevelasquez5666]

“Savage daily kills” lol.

[@drakokamikaze8823]

Damm she literally went ham on them flies. She looked cute and innocent until she came across the flies.

[@princesskiriko2009]

She's badass! She totally owned them >w

[@drakokamikaze8823]

@@princesskiriko2009 I love it .

[@princesskiriko2009]

@@drakokamikaze8823 right? I'd beg her to step on me too 🥰

[@BigMoney23223]

I’ll volunteer with a back mounted flame thrower, it’ll take what half a second of flame on them to cook them almost instantly. It’s not long enough to damage anything else. But cook thousands of them in an hour

[@nugsymalone1247]

As a PA resident, its not as bad anymore as it had been. I'm sure other states are seeing the worst of it like we originally did. Maybe townships should start easing up on restrictions for having backyard chickens because my chickens catch them all the time and eat them. What this video doesn't show you is what their eggs actually look like. If you find the eggs you can destroy them as well. This wasn't a useful video if vice is actually concerned...

[@memphis346]

"I'm probably gonna squish them for the rest of my life" was one of the cutest things I've ever heard

[@reelskey3001]

Isabella, how many lanterflies have you step on so far?

[@garrethenderson9695]

Cute? Sounded psychopathic to me.

[@kjrelax2307]

> How many lanternflys have you step on by count ?

[@ATF.California]

They should get these bug zappers at harbor freight for $2.99 works like a charm

[@michaellee4463]

Not all heroes wear capes, some wear sandals

[@paleoguy2165]

Villains more like

[@michaellee4463]

@@paleoguy2165 The Lanternflies are an invasive species that are ruining our crops and disrupting the ecosystem. They need to be taken care of, let homegirl do her thing

[@xx3uddhaxx]

“Do You Want TO Live FOR EVER?” - Rico

[@kathynicklas9845]

The bottle method is so much easier looking, and you don’t have to squish them with your hands.

[@reelskey3001]

Kathy, how many lanterflies have you step on?

[@AnthonyGarcia-so2ek]

5:56 damm she's a GIANT! 👑👀❤️

[@dasfreshyo]

is this gonna be a standup fight sir or another bug hunt?"- PFC Hudson

[@athersuhail3211]

killing flies is the treatment for ptsd

[@KIRAMH1023]

Also, no, just killing the bugs isn't going to make a dent. But what I didn't hear in this video (unless I missed it) is the best civilian defense is to kill off the eggs, either ourselves or to alert officials. I live in Hershey and drive along back roads and see these huge houses with giant trees in the yard covered in the eggs and no one does a thing. I don't know what the laws are regarding officials coming on private property to kill bugs/eggs, whatever. But the eggs are where we can do justice. The only thing that keeps me from freaking out is that so far we still have a window every year when they freeze off and we can start our fight anew. We vigilantes just need better marketing to get the word out!

[@johnpacella9519]

So how does one deal with eggs? Sautée pan?

[@parkavenue2786]

"It's an UGLY planet!! A BUG planet!!!"

[@ukct5759]

That glint in her eye when she says how many she's trodden on! 😍

[@jameskellum4]

Man you don't realize how bad it is until you see just how many there are. They are everywhere