I had a 30’ tall tree of heaven with about a 1’ diameter trunk fall over in a storm and land on my used school bus (aka a skoolie). The bus was completely undamaged, not even scratched anywhere. Those things grow really fast but they’re very light, basically balsa wood.
I went and checked where this fellow had his natural habitat (so I wouldnt kill it if it had its habitat where I lived), it is invasive in everywhere but china apparently, so feel free to crush em if you are in europe or whatever.
Fyi, that’s an invasive spotted lanternfly, which often infest the invasive Tree of Heaven.
Okay, but why did they have to draw it so cute? :(
Because that’s what it looks like
The 4th instar is really neat!
And they jump like jerks. I don’t know how else to describe it.
I suppose they must infest something else too? Or they wouldn’t be a problem?
They also screw with grapevines, hops, and other trees: https://dec.ny.gov/nature/animals-fish-plants/spotted-lanternfly
In America.
But not everyone lives in the USA
I had a 30’ tall tree of heaven with about a 1’ diameter trunk fall over in a storm and land on my used school bus (aka a skoolie). The bus was completely undamaged, not even scratched anywhere. Those things grow really fast but they’re very light, basically balsa wood.
I went and checked where this fellow had his natural habitat (so I wouldnt kill it if it had its habitat where I lived), it is invasive in everywhere but china apparently, so feel free to crush em if you are in europe or whatever.
So THAT’S the bug I’ve been seeing everywhere this year! I don’t recall ever seeing them before, and suddenly there’s a ton.
Yeah, stomp the shit out of those fuckers