Ed. Note: KNOCK WOOD. Sadly, I’ve seen a bunch. Not massive swarms but at least one or two a day.
“Dear PoPville,
Was up on my building’s roof this morning and realized that I don’t think I’ve seen a single spotted lantern fly this summer. They were all over the place on the roof and walking around last year, so I was curious whether the community has noticed a difference as well or if I’ve just been lucky this season.
A quick web search showed a May article on the topic from WUSA about how it was likely to be worse in D.C. this year, and I found a post on PoPville also from May where it certainly seemed like that was going to be the case (“I killed close to 30 on this one plant”).”