So many spotted lantern flies now!

RichardR said:

What do you do with the eggs? Do they need to go in alcohol, too, in order to kill them?  I saw a patch like that on a tree. 

I think the DOA's recommendation is to get them into a zip loc bag -- without touching them or the zip loc as much as possible.  If you're seeing eggs on trees, scrape them off into the bag with something you can put in the bag along with them.   Perhaps scoop them up with some heavy stock trash paper or a plastic spoon and put it into the bag with the eggs.

I haven't seen them on trees yet, so I don't know if their stickiness makes the hard to scrape off.  [And wash your hands well -- even wash your shoes if you may have stepped on the sac or any eggs near it.] Even adult flies may have trace amounts of eggs on them, and just throwing them away could allow the cycle of reproduction to start all over.

Someone on one of the threads said she caught a bunch by hanging a zip loc bag on an outdoor newel post at the end of a fence.  Sounds easy to me -- hang the bag, catch the flies overnight, zip up and dispose of in the AM.  Happy hunting, trapping & disposing!!
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ADDING THIS: because I just did a little more searching and it seems that ADDING ALCOHOL and/or ANOTHER PESTICIDE IS IMPORTANT to killing eggs. There's something here you can buy online, I think, that is supposed to be safer but still effective.  There may be something like it available in hardware stores, Home Depot, etc. but it's also, at:

https://spottedlanternflyspray.com/ 


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