Spotted lantern fly Pennsylvania

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  1. TokyoJoe

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    The government is hardcore about quarantining "invasive" insects, and expects us (while actually at work) to be held responsible and actively participate in their problem of differentiating between these insects that we have nothing to do with being in this country.

    Yet we are just supposed to accept the human insects that they invite into this country who are only here to water down the job pool and take over all of our jobs.

    Hahaha!

    I mean... ####ing seriously!

    Hilarious!

    This is exactly why I hoard ammunition and stockpile guns.
     
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  3. TokyoJoe

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    Your company must not have been invited into the matrix.

    For 2-3 years now Everytime I go close to or enter Pennsylvania I have to check a bunch of boxes and digitally sign paperwork making me responsible for investigating my truck and trailer for bugs that I don't recognize from any other bug which may be dangling from my ####.

    It's pretty ridiculous considering nobody gives us any instructions for when we actually do find such a specimen.

    Shouldn't I at least be issued a can of Raid? Apparently not.
     
  4. Brettj3876

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    Haha what matrix it's just me and the old man
     
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  5. TokyoJoe

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    Yeah buddy, you sound just like the farmer in the movie asking what's going on around here just before it all gets blown up.

    This spotted lantern fly bs isn't new. It's been going on for years.
     
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  6. JC1971

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    This is what the egg mass looks like. Someone mentioned earlier that it looks like a smear of mud. How do you pick this out of a muddy tractor and trailer because we all know it never rains in Pennsylvania.

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  7. 86scotty

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    That's just your company. He's O/O and even lives there and says he hasn't heard anything. I run up there all the time (as in 1-2 times per week) and I've never heard anything or seen anything except on here. I even asked brokers that I run for up there if they had heard of it last year when it was big news. They all acted like I had two heads.
     
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  8. 86scotty

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    I should clarify. After I heard about it here I did look it up and learn about the stuff I was supposed to do but I've never done it and never had a problem.
     
  9. bzinger

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    just got to my regular pick up in south philly and the lantern fly has arrived here , trees are full of them but nobody seems concerned about it .
     
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  10. Brettj3876

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    Spotted em up by me in NEPA
     
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