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A Columbus Metro Park is hosting an event for the public to help squash the invasive spotted lanternfly. Spotted lanternflies are a non-native species that threaten Ohio's crops, trees, and other ...

Spotted lanternflies, an invasive species harmful to crops, are in their breeding season in Ohio. The Ohio Department of Agriculture has placed 18 counties under quarantine to restrict movement and ...

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Spotted lanternflies are an invasive insect species first spotted in Ohio in 2020. Adult spotted lanternflies breed and lay egg masses late in the fall, and the eggs then hatch in the spring. Scraping ...

The so-called ticks are not the only extraterrestrial bugs appearing on Alien: Earth. We’ve also got a nest of flies, which seems to live inside a hornet’s nest from our own world. We don’t know much ...