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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Joe Sommerlad

So many lanternflies are spreading across the East Coast they are being picked up by radar

The East Coast saw such a huge swarm of spotted lanternflies on Thursday that they began to appear on weather radar, resembling a mid-Atlantic stormfront despite no rain being forecast.

The six-legged bugs, which are native to China, Vietnam and other South East Asian nations, were reported in large numbers in D.C., Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia.

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