Cold on a Cob posted:

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Mr. Biollo understood that the lanternfly is a problem for many reasons, but mostly because it zealously feeds on the sap of more than 70 plant species, leaving them susceptible to disease and destruction from other natural antagonists, threatening to set back the fight against climate change. In Pennsylvania, the issue is taken so seriously that the state issued a Spotted Lanternfly Order of Quarantine and Treatment, which imposes fines and even potential criminal penalties on anyone who intentionally moves the bug, at any stage of its life, from one sort of location to another via “recreational vehicles, tractors, mowers, grills” as well as “tarps, mobile homes, tile, stone, deck boards” or “fire pits.”

The insects hop and fly only short distances, but they move with ease and reproduce maniacally. “They can hitch a ride on a baseball cap in the back of your car,” Ronnit Bendavid-Val, the director of horticulture at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, told me. “I can’t think of something they don’t lay their eggs on — cloth, metal, furniture, sides of buildings and of course trees.” There are no natural predators that go after them, no organic pesticides to shut down their operation, so “if you see one, “squish it,” Ms. Bendavid-Val said, “that’s the message.”

Rectal Death Adept posted:

I kind of feel bad for D&D posters because they have this extremely regulated environment to do those incredibly intricate mental gymnastics routines and I can't imagine needing something like that that badly.

I have a feeling if any of them watched that c-spam video going around they would just construct an elaborate 3 hour loose change style unhinged rebuttal telling everyone to calm down and plant trees.

Rah! posted:

did greta get her hands on some nukes or something lol

T-Paine posted:

https://twitter.com/peoplesdispatch/status/1478773537758351364