What do you do if you see a spotted lanternfly in the United States? Wildlife experts will tell you to kill it, without hesitation or remorse.
The invasive insect can be found in 17 states after it was likely shipped from its natural habitat in Asia to Pennsylvania in 2014, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Spotted lanternflies can wreak havoc on plants when they eat the leaves and deposit a trail of sticky, mold-causing fluid.
Now, some of their relatives have been discovered as new species in their original East Asia home.
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