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Adult Spotted Lanternfly, image by Daledbet from Pixabay. Kentucky entomologists are asking people to be on the lookout for a pretty but destructive insect that could be using its piercing mouthpart to suck sap from a tree near you. The Spotted Lanternfly ( Lycorma delicatula ) i s a native of Eastern Asia that made its way to the U.S in 2014, when it was found in Pennsylvania. In Asia the Spotted Lanternfly (SLF) is controlled by parasitic wasps that aren’t found here. It ha

If this were a movie, it would be a sequel. Call it “Brood XIV: Return of the Teen-aged Orange-Eyed Insects.” Brook XIV (also referred to as the "Bourbon Brood") 17-year cicadas (si-KAY-das), are now making their first appearance in Kentucky and a dozen other states since 2008, when George W. Bush was president. Image by AshleeMarie from Pixabay. They have been subsisting on the sap from tree roots for all these years, waiting for some strange alarm clock to ring. They probab