Catching Up With a Fast-Moving Pest: Spotted Lanternfly (SLF)

BY MICHAEL RAUPP, PH.D.

First detected in Berks County, Pennsylvania, in 2014, near the town of Pikeville, this phloem-feeding sap sucker, the Spotted Lanternfly (SLF), now has breeding populations in more than 17 states.

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