BLACKSBURG, Va. (WDBJ) – Maintaining your garden or landscape gets frustrating when an invasive insect pops up. Eric Day, an entomologist at Virginia Tech, says more often than not, most invasive pests come around and fizzle out, but every now and again you get that one pest that becomes established like the Japanese beetle.
“It came through this part of Virginia in the ’60s and ’70s and that was a big thing when it came in, but it’s been here long enough that we’re used to dealing with it,” Day said.
Now, we’re dealing with the spotted lanternfly. It was first detected in Pennsylvania in 2014…