The Spotted Lanternfly Crisis
If you have ever taken a long stroll around campus, chances are you have seen one of the bugs that is pictured above. If you have seen one of these, you could have just walked by it, looked at it and then walked away, or you could have squashed it. These odd brown bugs are called spotted lanternflies, and they are a massive issue. The spotted lanternfly changes a lot in its lifetime, and you may not know what is the spotted lanternfly and what isn’t. A spotted lantern fly’s life cycle starts as an egg mass on a tree. These egg masses look a lot like cement, and the best thing you can do when you see one is to scrape it off of the tree it is on. The next stage is the nymph, they can either be all black or black with red, both having white…
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