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Allemaengel t1_jcqrsdk wrote

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

But it really hasn't where I am and I work in the area where it's been the longest. They're almost non-existent now and except for a few non-native Tree of Heaven and non-native types of cultivated grapevine, there hasn't been much plant mortality in the couple years that SLF boomed before predators figured them out.

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DoctorSteve t1_jcqsm85 wrote

The increase in food for insect predators will lead to an at least short-lived insect predator boom. I'm saying that is disruptive. It's not a rebalancing.

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