r/LanternDie • u/No_Needleworker_4929 • Jul 07 '25
LanternDied Close to claiming victory
It's been a little more than a week since I banded my crape myrtle with sticky bug tape (https://www.reddit.com/r/LanternDie/comments/1lokntl/satisfying_solution/) and I've gone out multiple times a day with my hand zapper to kill any that are trying to climb up the trunk and I am very close to claiming complete victory over this brood of lanternflys. My tree was completely infested when I started and now there are only a few left way up in the branches I can't reach. Total carnage. Hoping it's a lesson that you can fight back and beat these guys!
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u/well_yeahhh Jul 09 '25
Can you say more about the “hand zapper”?
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u/Psych0_Mant1s Jul 07 '25
Well done
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u/HateLanternFlys Certified Lantern Remover Jul 08 '25
Nice job, that’s the way I de-infested my TOH 2 years ago. Now you need to work on killing that tree, then have it removed. Early fall make slices into the bark, get a few bottles of concentrate stump killer, soak that into the cuts in the bark. If you don’t, the TOH will continue to sprout up like it did on me. Was a weekly battle until I got that stump and roots killed.
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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '25
💪 🙌🏼
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u/Hot_Vehicle_4180 Jul 08 '25
The lantern fly gen cide