Anonymous #3 11w

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 11w

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

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Anonymous #5 11w

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

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Anonymous #6 11w

Or they can put traps there too

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Anonymous #2 11w

Smarter.

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Anonymous #4 11w

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 11w

yeah this made them look disgusting thank you

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Anonymous #13 11w

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

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Anonymous #13 11w

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 11w

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

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Anonymous #9 11w

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 11w

Omg im so sorry

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Anonymous #12 11w

Same!!

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Anonymous #17 11w

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

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Anonymous #13 11w

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 11w

Oh heck naw have you seen their long legs

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Anonymous #6 11w

Thanks

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Anonymous #8 11w

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

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Anonymous #20 11w

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

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Anonymous #21 11w

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

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Anonymous #20 11w

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 11w

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

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Anonymous #4 11w

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

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Anonymous #4 11w

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 11w

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 11w

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 11w

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 11w

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

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Anonymous #4 11w

You’d need chemical war against them

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Anonymous #20 11w

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 11w

I bet you eat meat you idiot

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