Those pesky and destructive spotted lanternflies are back.
"Vacuuming them up is certainly a good practice.
What we do when we vacuum them up, we then empty them into a plastic bag and basically put them in the sun and that will kill them," said Chris Logue, the New York state Department of Agriculture and Markets director for plant industry.Spotted lanternflies can travel by hitchhiking in the wheel wells of trucks and cars, and they can destroy dozens of varieties of plants and crops.
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