Beginning on May 1, all businesses, including farms, that operate in a 14-county area in eastern Pennsylvania will be required to display a permit indicating they have completed a training to help min...
To the Editor:
In its recent update on the spotted lanternfly (Times News, May 31), Carbon County announced it will be cooperating with the USDA and is advising that Carbon County residents allow the ...
Perhaps you’ve heard something about the spotted lanternfly. It’s an invasive leafhopper that we first discovered near Reading in Berks County in 2014. Since then, it’s spread from that epicenter to n...
Crews are treating trees that host spotted lanternflies in watershed property owned by the Bethlehem Authority this week. The treatments should destroy about 274 Trees of Heaven (Ailanthus trees), hop...
Summit Hill Borough Council has agreed to help the U.S. Department of Agriculture wage war against the invasive spotted lanternfly, which has become prevalent in the region during the past year or two...
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture Tuesday reported the first confirmed spotted lanternfly hatch of the year. The first-instar nymph was located by a USDA employee in the University City secti...
Six years after they were first reported near Reading, spotted lanternfly are well-known to most residents of Eastern Pennsylvania. Most school-aged kids know to smash the invasive species when they s...
With the colder temperatures, the spotted lanternflies have stopped being such a pest, in part because they are almost all dead. Can you tell I have no love lost for these invasive creatures?
In the s...