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Allemaengel t1_jcqpvuw wrote

Reply to comment by lyncati in Lanternfly quarantine zone expands in Pennsylvania by ImperialIIClass

It made little difference where I work. The predators had it figured out less than two years after SLF arrived. The quarantine has little to do with it as people either are unaware or unwilling to follow it and are moving the creature around at will.

Nature represents the final determiner and sometimes moves very fast in doing so.

The state has worried so much about SLF and yet didn't seem nearly as concerned about EAB which has cost an inordinate amount of money and put the electrical grid and people's physical safety at fat greater risk.

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UnaffiliatedOpinion t1_jcqzx9i wrote

I'm admittedly pretty ignorant to what the state has done as a matter of policy against either invasive species (other than that I'm vaguely aware that firewood is not supposed to be transported between parks and such).

How much is being driven by government action, vs word-of-mouth? I don't imagine most people would see EAB on a daily basis - unless you're closely inspecting trees, would we be living ignorant to the infestation around us? Meanwhile with the lanternflies, there are so many that it feels like you're experiencing a biblical plague, it makes sense that everyone is stomping them and talking about stomping them.

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Allemaengel t1_jcr0qdn wrote

The EAB lives nearly all its life cycle out of sight under the bark so out of sight, out of mind unlike the flashy SLF and all of its instar phases. Human beings and their governments tend to react to that which they see whether or not it merits it

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