These beautiful spotted lanternflies are being spotted in the US. But if you see one, kill it immediately ... Here's why.
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00:00And it's close to 40,000 this year that I've killed.
00:18There's some days I just wanted to quit because I'd come out and get four or five hundred.
00:22I even got a thousand in one day.
00:23And the next day there was hundreds there again.
00:25And we are up against something pretty tough.
00:27So the spotted lanternfly, as we know, if you see them, you're supposed to kill them
00:32and also report where you saw them.
00:34So I guess like the government can track their whereabouts.
00:37And I found one and I just think they're really pretty.
00:50These are lanternflies and they are a plague in Philadelphia.
01:03You can spray.
01:04You can basically wipe out a million of them in one day.
01:07And the next day they're all back.
01:16And criminal.
01:17This distinctly patterned pest is butter and fly the destructive species feeds on grape
01:23vines, apple trees, stone fruit trees and pine trees, all of which are big business
01:28outside until they lift the quarantine going to be a little bit.
01:31The insect arrived in the United States for the first time last fall.
01:34It is a native.