Anonymous #3 4w

out in my city it’s the opposite. some people get so into it they stop for a few minutes on their commute to smash a bunch

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Anonymous #8 4w

Ikr I love the red… but they’re so bad

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Anonymous #5 4w

They need a sacrificial tree of heaven to hit with insecticide every couple of days

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Anonymous #6 4w

Or they can put traps there too

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Anonymous #2 4w

Smarter.

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Anonymous #4 4w

There’s too many, can’t squash an r strategist because 10 more eggs hatch with a single stomp

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Anonymous #9 4w

yeah this made them look disgusting thank you

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Anonymous #13 4w

This is a recent thing? Dang how does everybody seem to know about this

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Anonymous #13 4w

In the east mainly, but they're spreading quickly. They were first identified in Pennsylvania in 2014 I think

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Anonymous #13 4w

Not super recent — I saw some in Pennsylvania a couple years ago while visiting for just a day

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Anonymous #9 4w

Thanks for the info. I never knew what they were before this weekend. Suppose I just thought they were all moths before recently

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Anonymous #16 4w

Omg im so sorry

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Anonymous #12 4w

Same!!

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Anonymous #17 4w

Glorious. I keep a daily count of how many I’ve destroyed.

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Anonymous #13 4w

They were super common in Jersey and New York. Idk about now but when I was in nyc a few weeks ago for a rooftop party they were appearing like crazy. The party ended up just being a lantern fly graveyard

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Anonymous #8 4w

Oh heck naw have you seen their long legs

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Anonymous #6 4w

Thanks

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Anonymous #8 4w

We’re not gonna have fucking ecosystems if they live. Squash every single one on sight.

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Anonymous #20 4w

What kind of whack-ass take is this? You have to be misinformed like like eight different ways

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Anonymous #21 4w

It’s life matters to it not me so why would I kill it

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Anonymous #20 4w

if life matters to you, then you protect it by not allowing the SLF to destroy the home of countless other beings. i’m sorry but as someone who’s tripped a shit ton too, it’s not relevant here. the media isn’t telling you bugs don’t matter, it’s telling you that this species is invasive and destroying habitats for lifeforms

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Anonymous #4 4w

Don’t even know what the SLF is. My mindset is new, not a god lol.

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Anonymous #4 4w

Just don’t kill shit because I’m told too

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Anonymous #4 4w

But people say their “pro nature” yet watch a lion abandon its cub in the wild and not save it yet record it for documentary. Fuck this “natures law” bs you have the ability to manipulate matter and you didn’t save the lion FUCK them

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Anonymous #20 4w

slf is spotted lantern fly, which are the insects we’re talking about. or as i should say, the insects i’m talking about, bc idk what bullshit you’re on. i’m not a nature documentary recorder, i’m someone who doesn’t want to see the north american ecosystem demolished by invasive species. you sit by and reap the benefits of a world you condemn

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Anonymous #4 4w

Even if you’re smart and know a lot, would killing a few really do shit against the natural algorithm of the exponential growth of their reproduction

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Anonymous #4 4w

You can kill a lot and feel like a hero for the day but it ain’t doing much chief

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Anonymous #4 4w

Even if you’ve got a mix of moral and logical correctness in your argument

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Anonymous #4 4w

You’d need chemical war against them

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Anonymous #20 4w

it’s not perfect but it is helpful when people limit their growth. we had a horrible infestation in my city a few years ago and we had to have a kill on sight alert put out. they literally swarmed our buildings and the few trees we had, since we’re inner-city. it was the other students that killed that vast majority of the first wave of them, and the university eventually had to hire a team for the rest. however you can’t just hire a team for every single one you see. so you gotta stomp them

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Anonymous #20 4w

I bet you eat meat you idiot

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