Spotted lanternfly

Olympusman · Post by **Olympusman** » Tue Aug 14, 2018 11:58 am

Just when you got over the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania givving you the Brown Marmorated Stinkbug in Allentown (just north on the other side of the mountain from me) we now have a new invasive insect from Asia, first ID'd in Bucks County (just south of me) - the Spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula). Ethered on a glass pane on my front door.

Olympusman · Post by **Olympusman** » Tue Aug 14, 2018 12:09 pm

I wondered what it would look like in a Victorian scientific journal...

MarkSturtevant · Post by **MarkSturtevant** » Tue Aug 14, 2018 7:24 pm

A beautiful picture! Maybe I will see one of these on my trip to the east next week.

Beatsy · Post by **Beatsy** » Wed Aug 15, 2018 12:14 am

Very nice, subtle colours and well presented. The mono actually looks better to me - great range of tones to support B&W presentation. Always a good way to present shape, detail and texture IMO, though I generally reserve it for when colour doesn't add any useful info (doesn't apply here though as we have the colour version too). Neat stuff.

BugEZ · Post by **BugEZ** » Wed Aug 15, 2018 1:13 pm

What a cool insect! The wing patterns are fascinating! Thanks for sharing.

Keith

Olympusman · Post by **Olympusman** » Wed Aug 15, 2018 1:43 pm

The next step is to harvest various parts of the insect. I'm looking forward to that pattern at the end of the wing.
The underside of the wing has a very bright red area that you can see through the top.

Mike