In this WESA 90.5 article, Steve Fellure from Davey's South Pittsburgh office discusses spotted lanternfly signs and patterns in the Pittsburgh area.
A few years ago, Steve Fellure would see swarms of spotted lanternflies in the Philadelphia-area when he visited his family. But now, he said, the population of the bugs has waned.
“They're still there but they're not nearly as dense as they were a couple of years ago,” he said. “So they are moving — they're moving west.”
Fellure, the district manager for Davey Tree Service in the South Hills, said there is some anecdotal evidence that the biggest populations of spotted lanternflies may be starting to move on from Pittsburgh where they first took root and ballooned a few years ago, ranging into the suburbs and beyond.
To learn more about spotted lanternfly patterns in Pittsburgh, click here.
For more information, contact the South Pittsburgh Davey office.
The Davey Tree Expert Company, headquartered in Kent, Ohio, provides research-driven tree services, grounds maintenance and environmental and utility infrastructure consulting for residential, utility, commercial and environmental partners in the U.S. and Canada. As one of the top ten largest employee-owned companies in the U.S., Davey's 12,000 employees have been dedicated to creating and delivering sustainable solutions since 1880. Apply today to join the Davey legacy, and learn about how we're growing with our new SEED Campus.