Behold the spotted lanternfly, an invasive species that poses such a threat to crops and trees in New York (it has no predators) that we are encouraged, should we see one, to squish (that's the term) it. These two are squished - and I did the squishing. The one on the left I
despatched, with my shoe in my hand, on a wrought iron railing on West 10th Street yesterday. The one on the right I took care of by stomping today, in the Lang courtyard - a movement which led everyone quietly reading to look up in horrified disapproval. Painful.
