We might not know the actual impact of spotted lanternflies yet, but we do know they won’t be the last invasive species we see. We live in a highly connected world, and species - especially unassuming insects, or plants - can easily hitch a ride to new places where they could wreak havoc on native ecosystems. The good news is that eradication isn’t impossible if the infestation is caught early. In the US, one success story is how California eradicated the European grapevine moth. Read more here: entomologytoday.org/2019/03/08/invasive-species-success-story-eradication-european-grapevine-moth-california/ On the flip side, there are unfortunately more losses than wins. Similar to the spotted lanternfly, the brown marmorated stink bug came to the US in the ’90s; it also eats crops. Populations have leveled out on the East Coast, but the bug is making its way west. Read more here: entomologytoday.org/2018/06/21/invasive-insects-the-top-4-most-wanted-list/ Thanks for watching! -Kim
Since the violence is largely pointless, maybe just don't bother. As you say, humanity and its technology is the root invasive species disrupting ecosystems.
I'm right below Pennsylvania and i've seen northern cardinals and possibly carolina wrens going after these guys in their slower adult stage. The animals are slowly learning about the new buffet of bugs, but the lanternflys are also slowly learning to avoid us a little more than last year.
I've been noticing some of the same things in Central PA it truly quite an interesting example of an invasive species and what that means and how quickly something can be naturalized into an ecosystem
@@nikolaybondarev7407 I’ve seen so many birds doing awesome work up there hunting them. Financial district Manhattan was flooded with them and they probably got 90% of them. Rooting for our bird friends
That would be a very full wren! I saw them in large concentration just once, near several of the also-invasive host trees (ailanthus). I wonder how much it will help to take out the preferred hosts on which the bugs probably laid their eggs.
Yeah, I’m starting to think I saw some of them this summer pollinating one some of my flowers, but they didn’t attack any of the shrubs around said plants.
These bugs are terrifyingly bold. Try to step on one, it flies away the second you close in on it. They also will just jump on you almost like it's a threat and ride car windows.
It was also a boom in Korea about 10 years ago. It came from China due to increase climate temperature. There is a insect called 'Anastatus orientalis' which is a predector of the latern flies, according to the Korea Environment ministry. By increasing the amount of Anastatus orientalis in conclusion, it is now hardly to find the lantern flies in Korea.
Parasitic wasps are amazing little creatures for an ecosystem. I don’t know what we would do without them! We probably wouldn’t be able to eat tomatoes every summer, that’s for sure. For those interested in bringing these natural predators to your area, keep bugging (ha) Nature’s Good Guys and eventually we can get them to carry them in their catalog.
@@loganiushere parasitic wasps like Anastatus orientalis cannot actually sting you. These are tiny solitary fly-like wasps are extremely specialized, hunting down lantern bug egg masses exclusively to parasitize with their own eggs.
Same exact bug invaded Korea about 10~20 years ago from China, and I have seen those bugs a lot in the past but number seems to have decreased nowadays in Korea. I hope US finds a good solution.
The few researches were made at that time, and one of the factor of their survivor rate (egg hatch rate) is the winter temperature. harsh winter struck korea in early 2010s, as of the number has exponentially decreased.
I went to New York 1 month ago, and it was FULL of those insects, I remember seeing an ad about killing them since they are invasive, so I started stepping on every single one I could see😂 we don't have it in italy, but as a tourist I still did my part, because we also have an invasive insect problem, (cimice asiatica) a bug from China that is destroying all the fruit fields across the north of the country
As a person from ground zero of invasion (southeast PA), I can confirm that they are a big problem. One of my friends even wrote the article at 2:37 lol!
So interesting to see what we can do about these "intruders"! Our crew filmed a very similar topic. Lionfishes were also brought to the ocean in Florida and basically messed up the whole ecosystem because they eat so much! While the solution for lanternflies is for us to smash them, for lionfishes, it lies more on us eating them...
@@BHuang92 Lionfish are venomous, not poisonous. They can be hazardous to prepare because of the spines, but there’s nothing dangerous about eating them. And they’re reportedly quite tasty (haven’t had a chance to try one yet)
Yeah I’ve lived in Eastern PA my entire life, & let me just say lantern flys are unhinged & fearless. At least in Philly, they’ll jump right on your face like you’re a tree or something😂
Grew up in Philly as well, they are here and have been here for a few years now. They seem to be better at jump out of the way of people before you can step down on them than in previous years. They’ve been bold enough to thrive in the city as well.
@@MiloticFan the trick is to step on them from the front. They can't jump backwards. I've stepped on well over a thousand of these bugs this year. They rarely get away.
I'm a trucker, I have yet to see any of these but our entire company has the compliance stickers on all our trucks and we are supposed to check for them whenever we go through the areas they exist, but I highly doubt anyone actually does that check
@@orangeusername1792 if you can’t handle being a big boy who complies by standards set to ensure the safety of millions of Americans, why don’t you stop being a trucker, boy?
I live in NYC. The first time I saw these critters was out in suburban NJ this summer, near a large park. I thought they were squee adorable. That's when I learned from friends that they were invasive, destructive and that I needed to squash all of the ones I saw. So I went on a squashing spree in NJ. But that was months ago. I was hanging out at an outdoor patio at a bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn this past Friday. Lo and behold I see one land right in front of me and my friend as we were drinking beers--my very first one here on this side of the Hudson River. I squashed it. But they've now invaded NYC. I feel that's not good?
I’m a freshman at Dickinson College and they are everywhere. Never heard of or seen them before in New York City where I grew up. But here, I can’t go a day without seeing them.
"At this point, it's too late to stop them completely. Eradication is not on the docket anymore. We missed that boat. That ship sailed. And so now it's about mitigation and management and control." Yeah I understand this, the same thing happened with covid
These things have been all over the airfield at the airport where I go to school. They were covering the wheels entirely and hanging out on the struts. A couple of them hitched a ride in our cabin on a few trips. We had even seen swarms of them at around 1,500 ft. Seeing these bugs splatter on the windshield after getting chopped up by the propeller was satisfying. But one time, one of these bugs got chopped up and shot into the cabin air intake, hitting my instructor's chest.
Another story: the Partula snails of the South Pacific. Giant African land snails were introduced as a new food source for several Pacific islands. However, it led to an infestation of them. To solve it, it was decided to introduce the carnivorous rosy wolfsnail (native to Florida and Georgia) to the islands to combat them. But it did quite the opposite, instead of going after the invasive giant African land snails, it went after the smaller native Partula snails. As a result, 51 Partula species are extinct, 11 extinct in the wild, and 13 critically endangered. Never underestimate an invasive species. Once the ecological balance is disturbed, it won't stop unless we do our part
"I'm doing my part!" *S TO M P* To put into perspective of an invasive species becoming out of control and destroying trees, because of a failed fur trade industry where the Argentine government shipped North American beavers to Cami Lake/Fagnano Lake in Tierra del Fuego back in 1946, beavers have been destroying long-protected trees, and they threaten six million hectares. Unlike trees in North America, these trees don't regenerate when destroyed.
I'm in an insect identification community on reddit, and the absolute boom of posts asking us what they were has increased a LOT in the last two years. Its ridiculous.
Not an expert but I was given the impression that these bugs only live in temperate environments and not sun belt climates. I grew up Southern China near HK and I have never seen them until this year in Pennsylvania. But my friends from Beijing immediately recognized them. Hopefully that means they will be largely contained in the North
Well climate change is pushing everything hotter in general, and TBH the ecosystems of the North ( Us and Canada) are already under stress from this and other invasives from mostly China, but also other parts of Asia. It's the container ships, the products, the packaging.
I've killed like a million of these and that's not even an exaggeration, more like an underestimation. I worked security at a remote location in NJ for a bit and it was incredibly laid back. I just monitored 5 guys in a small warehouse in the forest and most of my job was spent slaughtering Lanternflies that flew into the warehouse through the open bay doors. I had a broom and every 5 minutes I had to sweep the mass of bodies out of the warehouse.
We worked ab event in York, Pennsylvania 3 weeks ago & these things were EVERYWHERE. I spent a good part of the day keeping them out & off of our tent. One spot I did notice them clustering was in the arch where the tent poles for the shade canopy connected right above the door. This wasn't the highest arch, there are 3 others exactly like it but this was above the only entrance to the tent. Not knowing these were there we didn't bring anything & honestly, considering where we live doesn't have them but we do have a beautiful National Park we would not have worked this event. In just 1 afternoon I used an entire large can of Lysol killing them in the arch because we were worried they had marked that with a pheromone & were laying eggs there. The others I discovered blue name brand Windex kills them. Went through a ½ bottle of that too. It wasn't night time when we left & they has died down. We went over our car with flashlights to make sure we didn't bring any home, even under the hood. Then 1st thing next day we went to a car wash with an under carriage wash & let them know where we had been just in case we missed any. As for our 12 persons 3 room cabin tent? I contacted DNR. They had us spray the entire bag with Ortho Home Defense & put a zip tie through the Zippers so nobody opens the bag. We finished camping for the year so luckily this bag won't need to be opened until May. When we do need it again we will set it up in our yard carefully inspecting each inch of canvas & spray the entire tent & inside the tent bag with the Ortho Home Defense. We can't let Lantern Bugs take over & ruin our local eco system like the brown stink bugs from Asia did. They killed off all our green ones & cause so much crop damage for local farmers & orchards.
Yaa knoww, them resting on the arch of ur tent, is verryyy similar to three of them perched ontop of my backyard door. Just casually sitting there and occasionally fall off bcuz their pretty clumsy as well
I live in York, PA and I’ve killed so many of them. One day I sat outside my house with a flyswatter and killed 70 of them on a tree, the sidewalk, on my house. They are everywhere here- you’re right!
In Europe, actually everywhere, is also the pine beetle. The speed and breadth of the devastation is just mind blowing. I have the only remaining pine hedge in the neighborhood thanks to injections for the trees but its only a delaying strategy.
Pine beetle in the western US has destroyed forests already weakened by drought. Which means we have to try to grow new tree for heat reduction_ in a drought.
Whereabouts? I've never heard of or seen these either, but I'm in Colorado so most types of bugs aren't significant issues here (although that's shifting somewhat with climate change)
I think you can ask Australia and New Zealand what happens when you try to introduce natural predators... Not sure if they have experience with the rabid laser-eyed cyborg tiger though. 😁
That suggestion is exactly where the border between a shipping "accident" and voluntarily terraforming your ecosystem to death on behalf of another continent's wildlife lay Not good.
What Robert said and also I’m fairly sure Hawaii has some stories about not doing well to control new invasive species with an invasive predator (to the tune that the Pokémon region of Alola, based on Hawaii, has a couple Pokémon lines based on that!).
All of my life I lived in Southern New Jersey, and had never seen or heard of the Spotted Lantern Fly. However this summer I moved Northern New Jersey and have seen hundreds of them since.
I know the birds and other animals will eventually start to find more interest in eating the Laternfly. But, i think we should be actively hatching and raising birds of all kinds to specifically love to eat the Laternfly. Birds will have way more success at helping to drastically lower the numbers than a human alone can stepping on and crushing eggs.
I've been hiking out around the south side, if you take the time to examine any of those hanging vines in the woods, there's gotta be like a billion in Pittsburgh alone... by my estimation. 🤣
Ahhh I hated them so much...In LIC and NJ those insects were everywhere. Every time I went out of my apartment I saw them crawling and bunch of them dead too. I'm just so scared of insects I had to jump around so I don't squish them...Although I probably should have squished them 🙃 I was just so terrified...
I just moved from Georgia to Conneticut and no one told me I was entering into the epicenter of weird bugs and vector-borne diseases and now this, great,
It’s so weird seeing all the lanternfly stuff this year because I’m from PA and it was way worse a couple years ago, yet barely got widespread coverage
Been there, done that. It will decrease in numbers when either your local predators learn to eat those bugs or a harsh winter freezes them to death. Same thing happened 10 yrs ago in South Korea.
I love insects, & rationally I know invasive species affects other bugs but I would still feel sooo bad killing them. At least they're not in my state at the moment
I remember last year they were so clueless and were easily squished. This year they evolved into super ninjas and can see an assailing foot a mile away.
New here? We in Korea had the invasion of this exact insect (Chinese cicada, we called it back then) being everywhere around 15 years ago. Strange it did not show up after a year or two. Similar would happen there I guess.
On thing that seemed to me to be missing in the video is why they can spread so uncontrolably. They don't seem to possess any special defensive ability or strategy that would make it harder for natural pest controls to keep them in check. The video even confirmed this when you addressed birds and other insects attacking them. So why can they spread this quickly? Is it just because the lay so many eggs that natural predators can't keep up?
Usually it takes time for predators to learn that these new species are suitable prey. Yes, birds will learn to eat them, but it will take a while before it's truly second nature to the entire local bird population.
Their preferred food, the tree of heaven, happens to be a weedy tree that's hard to remove so it grows all along roads, along train lines, on the edges of parking lots, under bridges, near shipping ports, airports, etc. They lay a ton of eggs, and they'll lay them on literally anything. So they hitch rides very easily by hopping onto train and truck shipments and into people's trunks, by laying their eggs on stuff, and there's food everywhere they go because they feed on this incredibly widespread weed and also a huge list of other plants like grapevine, apple trees, walnut, maple, cannabis, etc.etc.etc. Also birds and insects didn't seem to like the taste of them at first. The tree of heaven smells kinda bad so I assume they taste disgusting.
In their home range their populations are mainly controlled by parasitic wasps. In America they reproduce with the same numbers that beat the wasps at home - and with no wasps around they dramatically increase the population.
In New York and in Staten I’ve seen a bunch but didn’t know what they are. Plus they’re pretty so didn’t bother them. Guess it time for more eradication
We might not know the actual impact of spotted lanternflies yet, but we do know they won’t be the last invasive species we see. We live in a highly connected world, and species - especially unassuming insects, or plants - can easily hitch a ride to new places where they could wreak havoc on native ecosystems. The good news is that eradication isn’t impossible if the infestation is caught early.
In the US, one success story is how California eradicated the European grapevine moth. Read more here: entomologytoday.org/2019/03/08/invasive-species-success-story-eradication-european-grapevine-moth-california/
On the flip side, there are unfortunately more losses than wins. Similar to the spotted lanternfly, the brown marmorated stink bug came to the US in the ’90s; it also eats crops. Populations have leveled out on the East Coast, but the bug is making its way west. Read more here:
entomologytoday.org/2018/06/21/invasive-insects-the-top-4-most-wanted-list/
Thanks for watching!
-Kim
Yo
I HATE stink bugs and yes fly and stink
Since the violence is largely pointless, maybe just don't bother. As you say, humanity and its technology is the root invasive species disrupting ecosystems.
Bro they are literally killing all the trees in my area, they are doing major damage..
Humans are the most invasive species of them all
Every man, woman, and child in my community is on the hunt for them. We are lean, mean, lanternfly-killing machines and we won't ever give up.
I eat them for fun
Americans and mass killing.....
@@bawicz0 how do they taste
@@ajenslowre884 bitter and sweet
Isn't it futile? There's too many of them where humans don't roam.
I kind of enjoy that the murderous rampage against these bugs is at least something we can all come together about
I have long believed that the only thing uniting us is hate towards the others!
how about vegans, do they support this?
As humans, it's our time to shine
Any creature that isn't up for domestication by us humans are up for eradication.
@@jonferngut I generally avoid killing insects, and am also mostly vegan, but can't speak for all vegans.
I'm right below Pennsylvania and i've seen northern cardinals and possibly carolina wrens going after these guys in their slower adult stage. The animals are slowly learning about the new buffet of bugs, but the lanternflys are also slowly learning to avoid us a little more than last year.
I've been noticing some of the same things in Central PA it truly quite an interesting example of an invasive species and what that means and how quickly something can be naturalized into an ecosystem
@@nikolaybondarev7407 I’ve seen so many birds doing awesome work up there hunting them. Financial district Manhattan was flooded with them and they probably got 90% of them. Rooting for our bird friends
life itself
Yeah, the birds'll take advantage of this
That would be a very full wren!
I saw them in large concentration just once, near several of the also-invasive host trees (ailanthus). I wonder how much it will help to take out the preferred hosts on which the bugs probably laid their eggs.
I would happily watch Kristie be enthusiastic about bugs and plants for a whole hour long special
3:59 'This plant, you cut it down and it's like HNNNNNRGHH~'
Yh...shes a trip 🙂
Kristie is amazing
Simp
SO THAT WAS WHAT THOSE BUGS WERE!!! I’ve seen them everywhere during the Summer.
@Zaydan Naufal I’ve actually been playing Cyberpunk recently because of the New Anime and it’s been running pretty smooth.
Yeah, I’m starting to think I saw some of them this summer pollinating one some of my flowers, but they didn’t attack any of the shrubs around said plants.
Can you transport some of them to California, beautiful bugs
@@barsnack7999 bruh
I SAW A BUNCH OF THOSE IN NEW YORK
I’ve seen these EVERYWHERE this summer and seeing why they’re here and what this means is super helpful so thank you 😊
I've never seen them lol
Why do I see you everywhere, from the Asian guy pharmacist studying tips to here 😭
I see you everywhere.
Woah, wasn't expecting to see you here Khalilah! Love your videos!
These bugs are terrifyingly bold. Try to step on one, it flies away the second you close in on it. They also will just jump on you almost like it's a threat and ride car windows.
you have to step on them from the front, when they fly, it's like they jump forward, so you want your feet to be there and for them to crash into it.
It was also a boom in Korea about 10 years ago. It came from China due to increase climate temperature. There is a insect called 'Anastatus orientalis' which is a predector of the latern flies, according to the Korea Environment ministry. By increasing the amount of Anastatus orientalis in conclusion, it is now hardly to find the lantern flies in Korea.
Parasitic wasps are amazing little creatures for an ecosystem. I don’t know what we would do without them! We probably wouldn’t be able to eat tomatoes every summer, that’s for sure.
For those interested in bringing these natural predators to your area, keep bugging (ha) Nature’s Good Guys and eventually we can get them to carry them in their catalog.
@@melissasullivan1658 the problem with wasps is they sting us too
I’d much rather take 1,000 lantern flies than 1 wasp
If we brought in another predator, I wonder if that predator would also eat our own native insects and create other problems for the ecosystem.
@@loganiushere parasitic wasps like Anastatus orientalis cannot actually sting you. These are tiny solitary fly-like wasps are extremely specialized, hunting down lantern bug egg masses exclusively to parasitize with their own eggs.
ISA NO1
Same exact bug invaded Korea about 10~20 years ago from China, and I have seen those bugs a lot in the past but number seems to have decreased nowadays in Korea. I hope US finds a good solution.
They can be eaten by other bug eating animals. They just need to learn and eat them.
The few researches were made at that time, and one of the factor of their survivor rate (egg hatch rate) is the winter temperature. harsh winter struck korea in early 2010s, as of the number has exponentially decreased.
I went to New York 1 month ago, and it was FULL of those insects, I remember seeing an ad about killing them since they are invasive, so I started stepping on every single one I could see😂 we don't have it in italy, but as a tourist I still did my part, because we also have an invasive insect problem, (cimice asiatica) a bug from China that is destroying all the fruit fields across the north of the country
Funny how most invasive species seem to come from China... 🤔
@@marconeri5375 thank u for ur efforts! Haha
As a person from ground zero of invasion (southeast PA), I can confirm that they are a big problem. One of my friends even wrote the article at 2:37 lol!
Nice
Also from southeast PA, these things are step on site.
So interesting to see what we can do about these "intruders"! Our crew filmed a very similar topic. Lionfishes were also brought to the ocean in Florida and basically messed up the whole ecosystem because they eat so much! While the solution for lanternflies is for us to smash them, for lionfishes, it lies more on us eating them...
It's hard to eat a poisonous fish that is generally unedible unlike a pufferfish.........
@@BHuang92 Lionfish are venomous, not poisonous. They can be hazardous to prepare because of the spines, but there’s nothing dangerous about eating them. And they’re reportedly quite tasty (haven’t had a chance to try one yet)
@@BHuang92 lion fish are fully edible if you remove the spines
@@sarasnake9954 Had them before, they taste like groupers actually
@@sarasnake9954 ive seen people fishin em specifically on rivers so they def taste good
Yeah I’ve lived in Eastern PA my entire life, & let me just say lantern flys are unhinged & fearless. At least in Philly, they’ll jump right on your face like you’re a tree or something😂
Grew up in Philly as well, they are here and have been here for a few years now. They seem to be better at jump out of the way of people before you can step down on them than in previous years. They’ve been bold enough to thrive in the city as well.
@@AKen_Films yup! It’s like good luck stepping on a lantern-fly, they are super quick & jump-glide away before your foot even hits the ground
@@AKen_Films We're weening the slow jumpers out of their gene pool lol
@@MiloticFan the trick is to step on them from the front. They can't jump backwards. I've stepped on well over a thousand of these bugs this year. They rarely get away.
Anybody who says that killing the spotted lanternflies hurts Mother Nature doesn’t care for her at all.
“You cut it down and it’s like “oh yeah?” UNGHHHHH” 😂😂😂😂😂😂
3:56 😆
i laughed at this too 🤣😂
😂😂😂😂😂
A lot like willows XD
Wolverine moment
3:58 I love this part
Omg I can’t stop repeating this bit…cracks me up every.single.time 😂
same💔😭😂😂😂😂😂😂
Saaame. This woman is hilarious.
I'm a trucker, I have yet to see any of these but our entire company has the compliance stickers on all our trucks and we are supposed to check for them whenever we go through the areas they exist, but I highly doubt anyone actually does that check
It's a lot to ask of an already overworked workforce
If the vehicles are cleaned every once in a while, it's not a problem.
Attitudes like yours are harmful
@@orangeusername1792 if you can’t handle being a big boy who complies by standards set to ensure the safety of millions of Americans, why don’t you stop being a trucker, boy?
@MeChupaUnHuevon something wrong with you if its the monetary loss your afraid of
I live in NYC. The first time I saw these critters was out in suburban NJ this summer, near a large park. I thought they were squee adorable. That's when I learned from friends that they were invasive, destructive and that I needed to squash all of the ones I saw. So I went on a squashing spree in NJ. But that was months ago. I was hanging out at an outdoor patio at a bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn this past Friday. Lo and behold I see one land right in front of me and my friend as we were drinking beers--my very first one here on this side of the Hudson River. I squashed it. But they've now invaded NYC. I feel that's not good?
Get more spiders
@@nickcook7408 spider 😩🤝😩
Not good, no!
When the bugs and birds were also killing the invasive bugs
“The most ambitious crossover since avengers infinity war”
I’m a freshman at Dickinson College and they are everywhere. Never heard of or seen them before in New York City where I grew up. But here, I can’t go a day without seeing them.
great, now i'm not gonna apply there!
I saw and was landed on them in midtown this summer so it maybe gotten worse. Lol
@@YazzyDream same here. I saw several this summer on the sidewalks of Manhattan
They’re every where in Harrisburg, I’ve stopped seeing them recently though when it started getting colder.
Yeah now there are so many in the nyc area
I laughed so hard when it said "Spotted lantern-flies were ABSOLUTLY harmed during this video"
I visited Pittsburgh last month and they were EVERYWHERE. Also been seeing more and more of them in my home state of Maryland 🫤
It's so annoying rs I was at a pirate game today they were everywhere
"At this point, it's too late to stop them completely. Eradication is not on the docket anymore. We missed that boat. That ship sailed. And so now it's about mitigation and management and control." Yeah I understand this, the same thing happened with covid
I read this as it played lol
Same thing with literally any disease ever
@@cheddarsunchipsyes8144 Except for things like measles, cholera or the bubonic plague, which are now exceedingly rare in industrialized countries.
These things have been all over the airfield at the airport where I go to school. They were covering the wheels entirely and hanging out on the struts. A couple of them hitched a ride in our cabin on a few trips. We had even seen swarms of them at around 1,500 ft. Seeing these bugs splatter on the windshield after getting chopped up by the propeller was satisfying. But one time, one of these bugs got chopped up and shot into the cabin air intake, hitting my instructor's chest.
And your planes are carrying them around.
They move FAST!
They are all over my Brooklyn NY backyard and even on a building on Sixth Avenue!
Another story: the Partula snails of the South Pacific. Giant African land snails were introduced as a new food source for several Pacific islands. However, it led to an infestation of them. To solve it, it was decided to introduce the carnivorous rosy wolfsnail (native to Florida and Georgia) to the islands to combat them. But it did quite the opposite, instead of going after the invasive giant African land snails, it went after the smaller native Partula snails. As a result, 51 Partula species are extinct, 11 extinct in the wild, and 13 critically endangered.
Never underestimate an invasive species. Once the ecological balance is disturbed, it won't stop unless we do our part
What's worse that bringing in an invasive specie? Bringing in another to deal with it.
"I'm doing my part!"
*S TO M P*
To put into perspective of an invasive species becoming out of control and destroying trees, because of a failed fur trade industry where the Argentine government shipped North American beavers to Cami Lake/Fagnano Lake in Tierra del Fuego back in 1946, beavers have been destroying long-protected trees, and they threaten six million hectares. Unlike trees in North America, these trees don't regenerate when destroyed.
3:56 more from this woman please
she's such a mood 😂
"No flamethrowers"
There goes my plan
I'm in an insect identification community on reddit, and the absolute boom of posts asking us what they were has increased a LOT in the last two years. Its ridiculous.
Thank you for explaining this so well, I’m Canadian and I’ve been super confused what’s been happening lately
3:55 was my favorite part of this video. That impression of the tree sending up shoots was meme-worthy.
Not an expert but I was given the impression that these bugs only live in temperate environments and not sun belt climates. I grew up Southern China near HK and I have never seen them until this year in Pennsylvania. But my friends from Beijing immediately recognized them. Hopefully that means they will be largely contained in the North
No. They're a problem in South Korea, so they can tolerate the warmer climates.
Well climate change is pushing everything hotter in general, and TBH the ecosystems of the North ( Us and Canada) are already under stress from this and other invasives from mostly China, but also other parts of Asia.
It's the container ships, the products, the packaging.
I've killed like a million of these and that's not even an exaggeration, more like an underestimation. I worked security at a remote location in NJ for a bit and it was incredibly laid back. I just monitored 5 guys in a small warehouse in the forest and most of my job was spent slaughtering Lanternflies that flew into the warehouse through the open bay doors. I had a broom and every 5 minutes I had to sweep the mass of bodies out of the warehouse.
"Spotted Lanternflies were absolutely harmed in the making of this video"; that's some disclaimer LOL.
“Oh yeah!? HGGGNNNNNNNN-“
Killed me😭💀
0:05 bro got smooshed like a goomba 💀
"no flame throwers"
-me " oooh.." Goes back to his room with a flame thrower...
Seems like these are all over the East coast, NY and NJ for sure from what I’ve seen
From PA right right here, can confirm they are everywhere in this state! Even being in a major city you won’t avoid them.
We worked ab event in York, Pennsylvania 3 weeks ago & these things were EVERYWHERE. I spent a good part of the day keeping them out & off of our tent.
One spot I did notice them clustering was in the arch where the tent poles for the shade canopy connected right above the door. This wasn't the highest arch, there are 3 others exactly like it but this was above the only entrance to the tent.
Not knowing these were there we didn't bring anything & honestly, considering where we live doesn't have them but we do have a beautiful National Park we would not have worked this event.
In just 1 afternoon I used an entire large can of Lysol killing them in the arch because we were worried they had marked that with a pheromone & were laying eggs there. The others I discovered blue name brand Windex kills them. Went through a ½ bottle of that too.
It wasn't night time when we left & they has died down. We went over our car with flashlights to make sure we didn't bring any home, even under the hood.
Then 1st thing next day we went to a car wash with an under carriage wash & let them know where we had been just in case we missed any.
As for our 12 persons 3 room cabin tent? I contacted DNR. They had us spray the entire bag with Ortho Home Defense & put a zip tie through the Zippers so nobody opens the bag.
We finished camping for the year so luckily this bag won't need to be opened until May. When we do need it again we will set it up in our yard carefully inspecting each inch of canvas & spray the entire tent & inside the tent bag with the Ortho Home Defense.
We can't let Lantern Bugs take over & ruin our local eco system like the brown stink bugs from Asia did. They killed off all our green ones & cause so much crop damage for local farmers & orchards.
Yaa knoww, them resting on the arch of ur tent, is verryyy similar to three of them perched ontop of my backyard door. Just casually sitting there and occasionally fall off bcuz their pretty clumsy as well
I live in York, PA and I’ve killed so many of them. One day I sat outside my house with a flyswatter and killed 70 of them on a tree, the sidewalk, on my house.
They are everywhere here- you’re right!
4:22 this is why mantises are one of my fav animals- they are helping people :) (their also really interesting creatures)
3:55 literally the best description
4:02 that face is pure gold
I live in Philly and they were REALLY bad last year. This year not as bad but when I went to New Jersey they were everywhere.
Yeah I was in Philly last month and didn’t really that many? Last year we were killing them left and right. This year I maybe saw 3?
In Jersey they legit swarm the pine trees and the buildings, I think in a year or two they are going to start eating people
@@teteteteta2548 IF they can manage to land on them...
As a fellow New Jerseyan, there were so many last year. This year I see ‘em every so often but not as much as last summer.
I live in south Jersey, it’s BAD here
In Europe, actually everywhere, is also the pine beetle. The speed and breadth of the devastation is just mind blowing. I have the only remaining pine hedge in the neighborhood thanks to injections for the trees but its only a delaying strategy.
Pine beetle in the western US has destroyed forests already weakened by drought. Which means we have to try to grow new tree for heat reduction_ in a drought.
I’m in the US and I had no idea about any of this
Whereabouts? I've never heard of or seen these either, but I'm in Colorado so most types of bugs aren't significant issues here (although that's shifting somewhat with climate change)
@@ItsAsparageese California, Bay Area
@@ComradeFer Ah right on, I'm glad that places-where-these-haven't-reached at least still encompass such distant and different areas as ours
Why not just bring over their natural predator to manage their numbers? The rabid laser-eyed cyborg tiger.
I think you can ask Australia and New Zealand what happens when you try to introduce natural predators... Not sure if they have experience with the rabid laser-eyed cyborg tiger though. 😁
That suggestion is exactly where the border between a shipping "accident" and voluntarily terraforming your ecosystem to death on behalf of another continent's wildlife lay
Not good.
What Robert said and also I’m fairly sure Hawaii has some stories about not doing well to control new invasive species with an invasive predator (to the tune that the Pokémon region of Alola, based on Hawaii, has a couple Pokémon lines based on that!).
Australia send their regards
They have considered that but are concerned about the impact.
The laternflies watching this: 😟
not a single "doing our part" or "would you like to know more" joke in a battle against bugs, my dissapointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
Where is Johnny Rico when you need him?
All of my life I lived in Southern New Jersey, and had never seen or heard of the Spotted Lantern Fly. However this summer I moved Northern New Jersey and have seen hundreds of them since.
"Don't use home made flamethrowers",
At least I got a couple summers with that done.
there were so many and flew onto my shirt and hair. I almost cried that morning
the Aussies are laughing at this medium size bug
3:58
This plant, you cut it down and its like, *"OH YEA?! HHHHNNNGGGHHH!!!"*
I love her lol
You can tell she teaches children often. Which works with distractible adults on the internet. LOL.
I’m an American and I don’t want these bugs killed.
I know the birds and other animals will eventually start to find more interest in eating the Laternfly. But, i think we should be actively hatching and raising birds of all kinds to specifically love to eat the Laternfly. Birds will have way more success at helping to drastically lower the numbers than a human alone can stepping on and crushing eggs.
How the flame thrower was invented
I saw so many of these in Upper Hill in Pittsburgh. Weirdly I saw none in the main part of the city.
I've been hiking out around the south side, if you take the time to examine any of those hanging vines in the woods, there's gotta be like a billion in Pittsburgh alone... by my estimation. 🤣
This video is really interesting! It helps me understand more about how to protect crops from the invasion of lanternflies.
Omg as a Philadelphian, these things are just a part of everybody’s lives. It’s like the weather.
This is the most effort America has put to ending a invasive species we are like we don’t need new flies
I never knew why everyone hated these guys since I didn’t mind them but like I guess I can see why now. They looked really cool to me lol
“Now I’m gonna feel bad about killing you, cause now I have an emotional attachment to you”
Too relatable.
4:00
Thats probably the best description of a tree I've ever heard
Vox: were going on a genocide
Me: 😃
Vox: but to flamethrowers
Me: ☹
You folks are the next best thing after Great Big Story ended 😊
Same feeling dude.
The end of Great Big Story was heartbreaking 😔
I love how you had to come in and say no to flamethrowers
"I'm doing my part!" *stomp*
"No flamethrowers" There goes my Tuesday evening plans
Ahhh I hated them so much...In LIC and NJ those insects were everywhere. Every time I went out of my apartment I saw them crawling and bunch of them dead too. I'm just so scared of insects I had to jump around so I don't squish them...Although I probably should have squished them 🙃 I was just so terrified...
People in South Asia:
We are mosquitoes killer.
I’ve seen birds absolutely mauling them, they cleared them out of parts of
Manhattan
Omg good to hear
Lanternfiles are so cool and great video :]
I just saw one on a walk in Baltimore, i was wondering "what a peculiar insect"
This short video gave me a roller coaster of emotions
I was very confused when I was in new York a couple of months ago and saw a dude AGGRESSIVELY step on what I though were pretty moths 😅
someone in my school managed to figure out how to basically lobotomize them using a staple so they could only walk
funniest thing i've ever seen
nahhh 💀
I just moved from Georgia to Conneticut and no one told me I was entering into the epicenter of weird bugs and vector-borne diseases and now this, great,
Oh I remember seeing one of these at the end of summer. It was memorable because I had never seen one because and I thought “oh look a new bug.”
So we're waging war on bugs now. nice
they have gotten into my neighborhood and now they are in my maryland burtonsville 😭🙏
I live in Indiana, and I haven’t seen one yet, but I won’t be surprised if they start to appear next year
It’s so weird seeing all the lanternfly stuff this year because I’m from PA and it was way worse a couple years ago, yet barely got widespread coverage
Spotted lanternfly early access
Been there, done that. It will decrease in numbers when either your local predators learn to eat those bugs or a harsh winter freezes them to death. Same thing happened 10 yrs ago in South Korea.
5:08 they dont freeze to death. They just wait till spring to hatch
@@joywolf83 hence not just any winter.
I saw one and turned it into a lanternpancake using combination of a zap racket and tiki torch.
I love insects, & rationally I know invasive species affects other bugs but I would still feel sooo bad killing them. At least they're not in my state at the moment
Thank-you for the informative video. I learned something new about the spotted lanternflies today that I did not know about.
That part from 5:21 to 5:43 is probably worthy of a 10-hour miniseries if it doesn't already exist somewhere.
I’m in New Jersey and in downtown Jersey city which is across the river from NYC and they are EVERYWHERE
You know an informational video's going to be good when there are 3 murders shown within the first 5 seconds.
3:56 I was not expecting that LOL
I remember last year they were so clueless and were easily squished. This year they evolved into super ninjas and can see an assailing foot a mile away.
lol
Man-made selection in the work.
Never seen a bug on the wanted list
Saw one of these on my window today. They're everywhere out here in PA!
New here?
We in Korea had the invasion of this exact insect (Chinese cicada, we called it back then) being everywhere around 15 years ago. Strange it did not show up after a year or two. Similar would happen there I guess.
4:02 love it
On thing that seemed to me to be missing in the video is why they can spread so uncontrolably. They don't seem to possess any special defensive ability or strategy that would make it harder for natural pest controls to keep them in check. The video even confirmed this when you addressed birds and other insects attacking them.
So why can they spread this quickly? Is it just because the lay so many eggs that natural predators can't keep up?
Usually it takes time for predators to learn that these new species are suitable prey. Yes, birds will learn to eat them, but it will take a while before it's truly second nature to the entire local bird population.
I bet predators were freaked out by the bright red wings. Any bright coloring on bugs tends to mean poison.
Also they’ve been here for eight years…the spread is really not that absurd when you consider hitch hiking insects on vehicles.
Their preferred food, the tree of heaven, happens to be a weedy tree that's hard to remove so it grows all along roads, along train lines, on the edges of parking lots, under bridges, near shipping ports, airports, etc. They lay a ton of eggs, and they'll lay them on literally anything. So they hitch rides very easily by hopping onto train and truck shipments and into people's trunks, by laying their eggs on stuff, and there's food everywhere they go because they feed on this incredibly widespread weed and also a huge list of other plants like grapevine, apple trees, walnut, maple, cannabis, etc.etc.etc.
Also birds and insects didn't seem to like the taste of them at first. The tree of heaven smells kinda bad so I assume they taste disgusting.
In their home range their populations are mainly controlled by parasitic wasps. In America they reproduce with the same numbers that beat the wasps at home - and with no wasps around they dramatically increase the population.
We need to have tighter management on imports and exports to prevent these kind of things.
In New York and in Staten I’ve seen a bunch but didn’t know what they are. Plus they’re pretty so didn’t bother them. Guess it time for more eradication
Good thing Canada doesn't exist in your map
Moth must just get to the border and go "welp, nothing here"