Look out for these dangerous hitchhikers | Opinion Updated Apr 08, 2021; Posted Apr 08, 2021 Assemblyman Eric Houghtaling, chair of the Assembly Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee, is sponsoring a bill to create a five-member Invasive Species Task Force that would prepare a plan to guide New Jersey’s response to spotted lanternflies and other harmful species. (Photo courtesy of Lawrence Barringer, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.) Facebook Share By Eric Houghtaling In the past year, we’ve come to associate the word ‘quarantine’ with staying home to slow the spread of COVID-19. Many New Jerseyans may not know much of the state is under a very different kind of quarantine aimed to protect our crops, native plants and agricultural industry from a dangerous invasive species.