The Spotted Lanternflies Are Coming. Please Kill Them.
It’s spring. Trees have leaves again. The birds are chirping. And insects are crawling back out of hell from their winter slumber, including the invasive spotted lanternfly.Simone Giertz on Project Failures | Gizmodo Talks Jessica Ware, an entomologist and an associate curator in the division of invertebrate zoology at the American Museum of Natural History, confirmed to Earther that the Northeast is going to see a lot of the spotty insects this summer. It was introduced into the U.S. from China in 2012 and has quickly…