Spotted Lanternfly Eggs - What To Look For!

[@TheWildlifeBrothers]

I will be recommending your whole spotted lanternfly series to my school’s environmental science program for sure, you’ve done an excellent of covering many of the flies’ life stages. It’s a shame what’s happening, they’re beautiful insects, but they just don’t belong. - Harrison

[@chrisegnoto]

Wow, thanks Harrison! It has been a lot of work and I was worried I would not be able to film this particular video. Glad I did. Unfortunately we found a couple at Churchville last week. Hopefully hitchhikers since it was near the parking lot, but still bad!

[@localsolitariat9380]

cries in philly there are squashed lantern flies on the ground EVERYWHERE outside and i found like 3 trying to get in my house :(

[@chrisegnoto]

This time next year, they will be covering the trunks of trees.

[@kathyyoung6608]

My year old kittens are killing them! YEAH KITTENS!!

[@smetlogik]

Interesting facts. Agree with Trail, cool looking, bummer they are invasive.

[@chrisegnoto]

Yeah, they look so neat but... I want to do a video talking more about the interesting things about them.

[@asmodeusazarak]

out here in the country there are some predators that are feeding on them. I see a lot of them that spiders have eaten. Hoping that helps control them because the woods here are full of wild grapes and hops.

[@chrisegnoto]

Yeah Man. We are in for some rough sailing with these fellows. Hops, grapes, walnuts and many others are abundant here and so will be the SLF's :(

[@TawhidStudio]

@@chrisegnoto hey just stumbled across your video, we just got rid off all our grape branches and left the roots, sad to start over but after cutting it off we found hundreds of these things under the tree. This explains why we didn’t get any grapes this year

[@TrailoftheWildWild]

Awesome video! The Spotted Lantern fly is beautiful! Sadly they are invasive.

[@chrisegnoto]

Yeah they are. I wish they weren't such a threat. It seems a lot of our invasive creatures are pretty amazing looking.

[@kathyyoung6608]

@@chrisegnoto Like the praying mantis. I'm in PA and probably have never seen a native one. I've been here 58 years and just found out the things I've been protecting are invasive. What pisses me off lol is that they kill hummingbirds! They better start killing the lanterns or I won't protect them anymore.

[@holysmokes6709]

They look way prettier on the bottom of my shoe.

[@fatrickspark1090]

Beautiful? These things are disgustingly ugly.

[@junostar864]

Thanks for the video. The little nymphs are all over my Maples in Eastern PA. I made the circle traps Penn State Extension has online & they work great. I can let out accidental catches from the traps too.

[@KaraCamilleDelonas]

I was wondering why the ones I squish lately are orangeish in color. This is both disturbing yet very informative. Thank you for your work

[@chrisegnoto]

You are welcome. I think the orange occurs when fully matured and ready to reproduce...or something

[@gracio1231]

They’re huge almost look like butterflies cause of the wing patterns colors or cicadas

[@kathyyoung6608]

Yes they do but they don't fly. My kittens were playing with some and they jumped, a great distance too!! YUK!

[@amicus9811]

Thank you- good to know about and helpful

[@desmondferguson7550]

Me and my friends at school made a spray to kill them and we have a group called the lantern fly hunters

[@chrisegnoto]

Good work. Did it work?

[@desmondferguson7550]

Nature Now! Yes it did!

[@ccdogpark]

Try this idea below kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5uyfHyFhNxkkKM Teen devises clever trap for spotted lanternflies

[@chris8878]

I use 90% isopropyl alcohol to spray the nymphs. You have to cover em good, they usually jump but if you have good vision you’ll see where they land and spray em again until they flip over dead. I got 80% of a colony with a bottle from cvs. There’s maybe 3-4 that pop up in that area every so often this month but I got sooo many of em.

[@dmfb68]

@@chris8878 best way to kill them is a pump sprayer bottle with water and Dawn dish detergent.

[@Wisdom_Tales2016]

Holly crap! How do you have the courage to grab one lol

[@chrisegnoto]

They are all looks. Can't harm us at all. Just don't eat them, lol.

[@billy_barry]

Found these on some of my firewood; they're not going to be a problem anymore 😊

[@DebraGill]

I have so many on my tree, I can’t reach the ones up high! They are killing my maple tree! We are in trouble! They did to little to late! Here is what it’s like near my home.

[@DebraGill]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6ubmYCmjNxpbNU

[@DebraGill]

I’m in Berks county pa ground zero!

[@chrisegnoto]

Yeah I saw that video. It is insane. I am so afraid of that being normal in the future. Not a good thing.

[@conitorres9774]

Make mix 1/4 cup blue dawn detergent with 1 cup water and spray to kill them

[@ccdogpark]

It's not too late to saved your trees. kzbin.info/www/bejne/ooPZn4SArLuHmc0 I just noticed this group posted a great video on how to build these traps Building a wildlife-safe spotted lanternfly trap 13,852 views• Jul 1, 2020 If you get a trap put up EARLY, it seems having them at a lower height causes flys arriving later, to only go as high as the flys already trapped. This makes sense, since they are coming together to mate. So a trap that captures them alive and holds them in place, will be much more effective than a trap that would kill them instantly. At least that is what I am observing after watching them swarm our oak tree for a week. (And there is no end in sight.) WRZ 2020-10-08

[@harryhathaway1086]

One thing I don't think a lot of people know they have great eyesight. I watch two of these flies chasing each other and following each other in a beeline and I don't know how the hell derice I can pick up on the one in the front and stay right behind it. Nature's fascinating

[@adamdean5881]

I live in the Poconos and saw my first one today. I killed if ( they are quick) and am going to report it.

[@chrisegnoto]

Yeah, they are spreading fast. Seing them in Southern Bucks County this year, too. The whole county has them by now. Spotted in Philly, also. :(

[@marineabc1]

I don't know if it will work, but I pressure wash my 30 year old Norway maple tree that was infested. The idea was to destroy the nests. I only went up approximately 8 feet. up the trunk.

[@Tootisepop]

Do they bite.

[@chrisegnoto]

Not in my experience at all. Pretty sure they taste nasty, though.

[@percival23]

There is a monster Tree of Heaven next door to me. It snows a 1/4 inch layer of pollen in my entire back yard every June. The Lantern flies can't kill that tree fast enough.

[@СпасЯнков-э2ч]

Nice video Chris What You Can do against the eggs spreading?

[@chrisegnoto]

Honestly, the best thing to do it destroy the eggs and maybe wash the site down afterwards.

[@TheRealJerseyJoe]

Interesting !

[@markkiser5120]

when Gypsy moths lay their eggs I took my plumbing torch and burned them. It does not hurt the bark of the tree unless you are trying to catch the tree on fire.

[@GumriRN]

This video would’ve been exactly what I needed to know if it wasn’t for the fast camera movement.

[@Ann-ub4mf]

Very interesting...Thank You.🙂

[@kathyyoung6608]

The giant praying mantis is also invasive and also from China. Maybe they will help rid the lantern fly. Then we need to wipe out the invasive mantis, which kills hummingbirds other small birds and animals. I'm in Montgomery County PA and 2 years ago they wiped-out all flowers, shrubs, vegetables and tees. I'm encouraging the kittens!

[@chrisegnoto]

Go kittens! The natice praying mantises are smaller and often very cammouflaged. They can be gray, brown or green.

[@Insect_Expert1489]

What about Dynasties Tityus rhinoceros beetle ?? We are we going to do to help the beetle

[@chrisegnoto]

Not sure what you mean?

[@Insect_Expert1489]

@@chrisegnoto due too the Emerald ash borer are eat up the Ash trees thus making the Titus rhinoceros beetles endangered

[@michael2B]

where is this occurring ?

[@chrisegnoto]

This was shot in Pa, but they are in NJ and other places, too.

[@jaynedetweiler2290]

Wheel bugs and assassin bugs kill them. We have 3 silver maples that they love. We banded in the spring which helped alot. Everyday I go out with my wet vac and suck them off of the trees and they drown in the water. I have yet to find an egg mass.

[@chrisegnoto]

Good to know. We have a trick where you put the opening of a drink bottle over them and they just jump right in.

[@jaynedetweiler2290]

@@chrisegnoto oh wow! I'm going to try the bottle tomorrow!

[@defunct1905]

It's kinda gross why their wings and legs,on females do that. They are so full of egg mass,there's nowhere for the fluids to go,so,it gets forced into places it usually doesn't stay,and wings extend,legs lock out from internal pressure. It's hard to have swelling in an insect body.

[@chrisegnoto]

Wow, it's nice to finally have an answer to that. I thank you very much for sharing that. And yeah....that is a bit disturbing. They are beautiful but such a problem.

[@defunct1905]

@@chrisegnoto it's an unintended change we ( humans) keep making. I loose entire days thinking about all the eventual outcomes. I'm sad to say,it looks pretty bleak.

[@bugloverspiderlover8490]

Kai Miller I've noticed that in mantids too,when they're so full of eggs,they can hardly walk.

[@marcoslovato6491]

Great video,are these insects in New Mexico?

[@chrisegnoto]

I am not sure, they are spreading FAST though.

[@johnl5152]

@@chrisegnoto Now we need some Army Ants to massacre them :D

[@alCare4u]

Amazing and frightening too. I'm afraid they might show in Israel too.

[@patrec100]

do you usually step on lantern flies?

[@ashleymc2866]

I live in South Philly, row homes, very little green around me and I've killed 3 in 2 days.

[@this2shallpassmoveon]

Found one in NJ this wked.

[@sz1768]

I just found one here in Warren County, NJ tonight.

[@ccdogpark]

They will probably be all over the east coast, Maine to Florida within 3 years. I wonder what it will take for President Blowhard to say something about this problem ?

[@chrisegnoto]

Yeah. Spreading way too fast :/

[@this2shallpassmoveon]

Saw 3 more this past wked!

[@waterhead001]

I heard a girl in Pennsylvania invented a trap that is working.. The traps are being used to get rid of the :Lantern Flies.

[@Insect_Expert1489]

We should not mess with DNA what if that RNA solution messes up with Human DNA also Trypoxylus dichotomus is trouble due to the pest control methods of the coconut rhinoceros beetle

[@chrisegnoto]

Yeah, it seems most things we tinker with can be a mistake, over time. It's all such a tempermental, if not fragile system. Introducing a new species to put another in check can be a real issue, though.

[@Insect_Expert1489]

@@chrisegnoto also I believe that Hawaii should have start selling the coconut rhinoceros beetles to Japan thus both the USA and Japan can still be friends thanks to one insect

[@Sapphirelily]

GET SOME PRAYING MANTIS!!! Maybe we can eliminate them with the mantises

[@bugloverspiderlover8490]

Sapphire Lily sadly it won't work,mantids live too short and there are too many flies.

[@jonest1627]

Do they cocoon to develop wings?

[@chrisegnoto]

No, they just molt their last instar and the wings are there. You can actually make them out if you look closely

[@Insect_Expert1489]

We Should try other methods of fighting the lantern fly like feeding our pet Ant colonies and pet praying mantises

[@Insect_Expert1489]

Remember the Chinese Mantis that came in to fight the gypsy moth well that insect could also help and since it’s here….

[@chrisegnoto]

Yeah, it's like Starship Troopers. Everybody's doing their part.

[@Insect_Expert1489]

@@chrisegnoto the Chinese mantis is doing its job !!!

[@Sapphirelily]

Rubbing alcohol. The highest you can find and spray them. In my state, home made stuff to kill these flies is illegal as it could do more harm than good.

[@mc365mc]

Its a lost cause. I'm in NJ and I'm seeing these bugs everywhere.

[@chrisegnoto]

Give it time. A few years, and it might calm down a lot.....

[@daveko7]

Very informative video, but why would you say that you hate to say it, but the best thing to do is to destroy the egg masses? That's a good thing to say and do.

[@chrisegnoto]

Well, it's not the creature's fault it ended up here. I am never happy to kill something.

[@mickeylara2111]

Solution, use a flame shooter this will burn the wings and legs.

[@juliedagenhart5597]

spiders are killing them too

[@Betty-qd8st]

They were in the wild grape vines bad

[@chrisegnoto]

Yeah, I was wondering when they would hit the vineyards near me :/

[@singinprofessor5260]

Montgomery County is polluted with SLF😓 And no information anywhere exactly HOW to eliminate them on any stage😡

[@ReganMarcelis]

Philly kicked the shat out of THEM! They still some lone ones though some areas lazy but NE Philly and river wards like Bridesburg KICKED the hell out of THEM! WEEZ LOVE KILLING STUFF! :p .. So far philadelphians are the ONLY answer...

[@createwithsol4766]

Great video. Now please get rid of those! 😩

[@Dirtyvegas506]

Just use a stick to get ride of the egg mass and use a salt gun or anything to kill lantern flys then just stomp them if they live. They fight

[@deliasantiago25]

Is 2022 an I believe is all over . Even in new Jersey 🙉. Too many. Something need to be done. NOW... TOO MANY

[@magamen6572]

Take a shop vacuum and vacuum them up everyday

[@martinalbert5653]

Sounds like they will be carried across the United States in no time.

[@davidjames666]

fast forward to August 2021, and they are all over Northern New Jersey. first time I ever saw them. i have grape vines in my yard and I suspect they are attracted to them. tomorrow I shall hunt for the eggs and destroy them

[@Shmooping]

dragon flies like them

[@Insect_Expert1489]

They look beautiful!!!

[@chrisegnoto]

I agree, they really do. Too bad they are a problem, but I can still appreciate them.

[@nickweiss2327]

IDK I think its kinda Bull shit. Lets face it people we have townships that cut down trees because of being to close to a side walk and other BS greedy reasons. you have developers all over Delaware county PA especially that cut down and destroy trees and properties everyday and not only that but I used to see bugs like that back in the 80s in PA. Those bugs have been here for a while now. In fact id say they have been here as long as ive been alive. The trees I used to see those bugs on are now dead because of a greedy township that want to just develop land and destroy beauty. With that being said, My question is. Why is the PA D.O.A. willing to spend 140 million dollars to kill bugs for the sake of trees? If they really cared why didnt they stop hundreds and thousands of properties and farms and forests from being destroyed in PA? I mean the biggest amount of damage I have seen over the years in PA and why I moved to DE is because of devlopers and greed not because of bugs and if the D.O.A. really cares. why dont they stop that? why is there old preserves that are now housing developments where hundreds of trees and plants were destroyed? I mean its kinda ridiculous to spend millions of dollars on a problem and not even try to fix a bigger problem. Kinda like a boat that has a small hole in one end and a big hole in the other why bother trying to fix a small hole in one end when your sinking because of a huge hole in the other end that nobody wants to fix.

[@marielg9143]

And did you kill them or just adore them inform how to kill them

[@BrentBlacke]

why you hate to say it? wtf...these things are nasty and shouldn't be here.