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PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – Spotted laternflies are storming in. What can you do to help? Stomp. In mid to late April, Virginia Tech entomologist Eric Day said the spotted lanternflies are about to hatch and reappear in the area. Day manages the Insect Identification Lab in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ Department of Entomology. “The spotted lanternfly […]
According to a recent study, nearly 1 in 3 different firefly species in the United States and Canada might be threatened with extinction-and soon could be blinking out of existence.
A single Asian Longhorn Tick has been found in Chesapeake and will be studied by researchers at the tick lab at Old Dominion University
Plus, an architectural !#@*-measuring contest, new bug species at Walmart, and other weird things we learned this week.
The giant lacewing found at an Arkansas Walmart is now housed at Penn State, where scientists and students have access to it for more research.