The Big Apple’s spotted lantern fly invasion is getting worse — with more sightings of the plant-destroying pests as their mating season revs up in the urban jungle.
is getting worse — with more sightings of the plant-destroying pests as their mating season revs up in the urban jungle, entomologists said Wednesday.— which ravage everything from fruit trees to grapevines and vegetable gardens — have grown to adults and are swarming the city in an effort to get laid, said Jessica Ware, an associate curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History.
By late August, the horndog bugs — which are native to China and Southeast Asia with black spots and gray wings — have grown bigger and redder in color, making them more visible on their sultry pursuits.
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