They jump like crazy! Got tired of all of this, so I pulled out a propane torch and fried the little buggers.

In addition to killing the bugs, it is also extremely important to look for their eggs and destroy them as well. They place their eggs on trees and cover them with a light grey covering that looks like dried out mud. If you see patches like that on tree trunks, scrape off the muddy patch and crush the eggs.

A solution of Dawn dish soap and vinegar in a spray bottle works also.

Approach them from the front. They can't see you and you can step on them. Apparently they can only look behind themselves.

Thanks for all the info; I found plenty in NJ. I stepped on them 💪🏼. But please keep making videos on this topic :). People need to know

I just found your channel and not even 5 minutes in and LOVE that we are going to talk about non toxic ways to get rid of them. I'm obsessed with finding them and squash them.

Good job on this video. Clear, concise and informative.

OMG I HAVE THAT THINGS IN MY GARDEN FOR THE FIRST TIMES. IN LONG BRANCH NEW JERSEY.

Thank you Eileen for the great informative video and your knowledge on the subject matter. I will do my part to help the ecosystem for sure.

Thank you! Clear concise information. Subscribed!

I have never had any interest in flies or in gardening, but this video was so well done that I was engrossed. Great work!

Great video! Thanks!

So many thanks for making this video. I am in Yonkers New York, and there are so many. OMG,

I'm in Cleveland, OH and I see them also for the first time.

Wetting your fly wattier with water really helps to smush them! Works great!!

These things have made it to BERRYVILLE,VA. and Winchester VA.

Try free range chickens , turkeys and especially Guinea fowl they eat them up like candy so far it’s been working for me

*Tree of HEAVEN (opposite of hell) not Tree of Haven Lanternflies do not spread their leaves.

Very informative without going overboard. Love your logo.

Netting over sticky tape is important to keeping birds unstuck too

I used Dawn soap and Vinger inside of a garden hose and sprayed them on the trees and they died very quickly.

Bugs killed 7 10 yr old green arborvitae’s in my yard….thanks for the tip on the eggs…..seen on wood pile

Flip flops work really well too 🙂😉

Eileen, do not give up, team up with organizations and use resources available to fight these 💪 pesky insects..

Thank you from Edison NJ!!

If you squish them get them facing forward. They can't jump backwards and it's super easy to get em. Also Brakleen kills them on contact.

I've been finding them all over my rose bushes in CT...

I tried to crush with my feet but it jump very fast , faster than grasshooper Its a lot in NY now

I saw a vid of a young lady who wrapped a loose net around the tree leaving a tunnel like opening which the bugs couldn’t get out of . Once in the net, they don’t feed anymore, they climb on the mesh material and starve and die

You also need to edit this to include how essential it is to COVER THE STICKY TAPE WITH NETTING, OR BIRDS LIKE WOODPECKERS WILL GET STUCK TO THE TAPE, WHEN THEY CLIMB THE TREES 😮!!!

Here in Jersey City New Jersey they fly away from me sometimes

I am in the area's of Sussex Warren and Morris counties.. They are here

Well done. Seeing them in central New Jersey now.

You have a nice voice. Thanks for the advice. I hate those guys. Been using the flyswatter method for 3 yrs @ the park where I walk my dogs

Got 25 of em on my birch tree last night, in union county nj

Wayne, NJ. Saw a bunch of black dotted nymphs on my hops vines. I duct taped a piece of 1/4" id plastic tubing on the end of a Dyson vacuum and could effectively pick them all off the plants. They seem to love the hops . They didn't seem to mind the tube until it was too late.

🤗 thank you 😊

I use Dawn Dish detergent . Works great. I have killed 2 so far with one blast. I use it to kill ants in my house and they are good for killing Wasps. Dawn Platinum power wash comes in a spray bottle. But you could probably use one of those spray bottles from the dollar store or home depot.

First year in MD seeing the immature stage. Can the fungus be utilized when still in nymph stage before becoming mature. What concentration of BotaniGard® 22WP Beauveria bassiana Strain GHA are you preparing and how are you applying. Given the area is away from polenaters apply to the base of the tree, over the entire tree if possible or just spraying on the actual bugs. Can this be utilized when still in nymph stage before becoming mature. Thanks for sharing.

Tree of HEAVEN, not haven!!!!!!!

They are all over Gettysburg Pa. Right now. 10/26/23

They are fun to squish

Thank you for all this information . They are really bad over here ,in Gloucester Township New Jersey.

Does this powder also work on houses. I get these lantern flies on my house and windows.

How can I trap them on a shrub, like my knockout roses. They’re all over them! Central NJ Monmouth County. They also up in my magnolia macrophylla, very high up in the leaves. It’s the middle of June 2022, they are second instar, black with white dots. I see them but I can’t get to them so high up!

I've used fire and it hasn't failed me yet😂

Thank you for this video. I'm in Westchester NY, and we now have an on-slot of S.L.F this year. I'm coming up with ways to trap them on the trees they climb. We have a lot of invasive Norway maples in my area. They love those trees! I'm trying to design a self-cleaning trap to put around the tree. It will not harm any other insects, birds, or bears. It's a little difficult getting permission to put the traps on park land trees. Their waiting for the universities to advise them what to do. 🤢 Thank you, GardenerPete.

Great information. I would also suggest calling out negligent pesticide applicators wherever you can and make your voice heard to penn state extension. Pesticide drift is already out of control and the lanterflies just gives these negligent applicators another excuse. Penn State Extension is actually very weak when it comes to pesticide drift awareness.

What should the ratio be between the fungus powder and water?

In the late fall into winter we're do they go ?

Tight fitting overalls, nice✔️

Hand squishing: If you cover them with your hand very slowly, they usually don't try to hop and it's easy to pick them up. I've done this and gotten as much as 5 or 7 at a time. If not squishing: Put a disposable water bottle over them and they will jump in. You can get a few and then stomp on it, dump them out and get more. I like to have one bottle for capturing, dump them into another bottle, and that is the gross one that gets stomped. The really thin plastic bottles are best.

Would Neem work also?

Because they are walkers and not yet flyers, a very effective option is using essential oils and other oils. Spraying the base of the stalk or trunk of the tree or plant will prevent these bugs from climbing up the plant and destroying it. A great choice is neem oil and others oils as well. Look them up. You do not want to spray the leaves or blossoms especially during mid day or the sun will burn the plant. Only the base of the plant.

I found that a mixture of paint thinner, dish soap and water, sprayed with a hand held pump sprayer is very effective on both the red nymphs and the adults. It doesn't seem to harm the trees or foliage that these bugs are found on. You can make a gallon of this mixture for about $1 and it will kill up to 5,000 bugs.

Can it be used on a fig tree?

Tree of Heaven, and also Maple trees!

Question: if you can scrape them onto a bag with alcohol to kill them, wouldn’t it be even more effective to just spray them directly with rubbing alcohol? Has anyone tried that? Or a mix of alcohol, vinegar and dish soap? They’re all over my wisteria which is against a wall of my herb garden..so I’m nervous about using anything that would kill the pollinators….

You left out something: they’re from China, came into PA. in 2012 on a stone shipment. In China the flies have a natural deterrent, a very tiny wasp that eats them. Just google it. Oh and some people are suggesting vinegar, don’t do it. Vinegar will also kill the greens around it, like leaves & grass.

I wonder if neem oil will work?

Let’s all open a praying mantis farm!

I use liquid soap in a spray bottle. It works great. Good old soap.

where did these bugs come from and what eats them

Tree of heaven.

Is there a scent lanternflies are attracted to? I keep thinking traps could be readily developed with a scent lure, and the lanternflies drown in water. We use these for flies in the summer.

"Tree of Haven" Um... that's Heaven dear. *continues listening* "And when it opens its leaves" LEAVES??? Did you enjoy some home grown herbal things before recording this video?

I’m waiting on the next video getting rid of them 😂😂

Neem oil is very effective!

good video i see them now more this week than last week was 1 or 2 now they more . central jersey. i did collect a few . . they jump hard and fast.. they seem like grape vine 7 of them on it. but nothing on fig tree . i studies entomology now i have to think for bio control . i do have some sticky board i will hang them next to vine . i will give an update soon. its really scary, thats why i never kill a spider.they are bio control from Sept to Dec.lets hope i get some big spiders to for this strong fly.

if you squash them won't the eggs fly out and survive?

there is debate that milkweed will be fatal to these lantern flies.Even if it is not it would help our pollinators especially monarch butterfly's.

neem oil works too i hear

Ah got it now

Found 1 on my canabus plant spray him with soapie water he jumped trying to find him

Tree of heaven, not haven 🙂 But good video. Yellow jackets are attracted to the lantern flies’ secretions (poop) and will get stuck on sticky tape along with the lantern flies.

How do feel about Neem oil to treat say a grape vine.

They're in northern WV now. :(

Here is a tip don't charge $95.00 for a pound of funus insectacide...otherwise i feel that the lantern fly is going to be around for a long time

I have a cherry tree by my pool. It's May and the nymphs are getting in my pool. Will the water kill them?? When I net then to remove from the pool, the little boogers jump off the net before I can kill them. And they ARE JUMPERS !! What should I do??

Vinegar and Dawn dish soap.

Can you use alcohol

It's a good idea to fight invasive species to mitigate some of the damage but don't kid yourselves. It's a fight you can never win because ultimately the population size will always adapt to food supply and animals that have a fast reproductive cycle and produce a lot of offspring will always explode in numbers until they reach that limiting factor.

It is a tree of heaven, not haven

Does spraying them with White Vinegar work?

I have a question for you please a week ago I was in my garden pruning my roses and I noticed all these nymphs never seen them before little black bugs with white spots did the research turned out to be lantern flies probably 100 or so of them I didn’t have anything to treat it with so I came home did some research came back out the next day there was literally 2 to 300 lantern fly nymphs strewn all over my driveway and all over the side of my house all dead so what the hell kill these things??

What are some of the crops that are being most affected by the spotted lantern fly?

These videos such as this have to be broadcasted on MSM. So that a greater number of people can be made aware of this information because KZfaq is rather limited. Also, she mentioned fire wood, if I would find these eggs on my firewood into the fire place it will go. I am sure fire would destroy those eggs. I am asking anyone watching this video If they know that the New Jersey Department of Agriculture had placed 13 counties under a QUARANTINE because of them. I have been fighting for 3 weeks now for the New Jersey Department of Agriculture to better inform us people who live in the counties that are quarantined to be informed about this situation. They have a webpage that needs to be made into a pamphlet and bulk mailed to everyone. Come on guys join me in this fight. QUARANTINE IS A BIG WORD.

Ailanthus altissimus aka Tree of Heaven

The planet doesn't need our help. It is just fine.

You say heaven weird.

Tree of Heaven (like heaven and hell)

Thank you for the info. I found and killed two of these nasty yet oddly beautiful bugs in Westchester county, NY in the past week. That tells me they are here and there are probably tons I them.......doing my part to kill them and help protect the trees and plants. Thanks for the great info.

Neem oil

I was just out killing them,

You really need to speed this vid up if you want treatment.

Some one suggested use dawn soap and water spray, it works, take care of plants too. From 8th to 10 grade we had to choose vocational course, ours was agriculture, horticulture, fish farming, etc. For stem borer bugs there is a natural medicine, ie mix of boiled soap and tobacco leaves( pure natural since it's cheaper) and you spray around roots and water it around that bud infested time so the plant absorbs it and whatever they suck out of plant might kill the big as well. Dawn soap and water spray works

Fly swatters work...you have to hunt them...when they jump or fly, they don't go far...so chase them and kill them.

Its called the Tree of Heaven...Not Haven.

Umm I thought it was tree of heaven as in the place you go when you die.. Neem oil works also.

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