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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Two for the price of one. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>I also like the approach suggested by Tom Gardner. If we go to where the Eastern North American relatives to this insect occur we may find that what is controlling the native relative is a candidate to control the non-native spotted lanternfly. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Marc Imlay, PhD, Chair, MAIPC Biological control working Group Conservation biologist, </span></b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Park Ranger Office, Non-native Invasive Plant Control coordinator. </span></b><a href="mailto:Marc.Imlay@pgparks.com"><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Marc.Imlay@pgparks.com</span></b></a><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>(301) 442-5657 cell Natural and Historical Resources Division The Maryland- National Capital Park and Planning</span></b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=0 style='width:756.8pt;border-collapse:collapse'><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width=468 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:351.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Commission</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td width=16 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:11.8pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p></td><td width=525 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:394.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> MAIPC [mailto:maipc-bounces@lists.maipc.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>rodswalker@aol.com<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, January 20, 2018 9:07 PM<br><b>To:</b> maipc@lists.maipc.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [MAIPC] MAIPC Digest, Vol 75, Issue 4<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>How strong is the connection between this bug and Ailanthus? If we wiped out Ailanthus across a whole county, would there be no lanternfly there? What part of the Ailanthus does it use?<br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br>Today's Topics:<br><br>1. spotted lanternfly (Richard Gardner)<br>2. Re: spotted lanternfly (Marc Imlay)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2018 23:01:38 +0000 (UTC)<br>From: Richard Gardner <<a href="mailto:rtgardner3@yahoo.com">rtgardner3@yahoo.com</a>><br>To: MAIPC Listserve <<a href="mailto:maipc@lists.maipc.org">maipc@lists.maipc.org</a>><br>Subject: [MAIPC] spotted lanternfly<br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:865060830.2155883.1516489298618@mail.yahoo.com">865060830.2155883.1516489298618@mail.yahoo.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br><br>Thoughts on this article? My two questions are if there are Eastern? North American relatives to this insect and what?is the?specific location where it was introduced?<br>Editorial: A strongargument for help fighting lanternfly<br>Monday January 15, 201812:01 AM Reading Eagle, Reading, Berks County, PA<br><br>Berks County Commissioner Christian Y. Leinbach</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>must have taken a panel of U.S. and state lawmakers aback with his strongly</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>worded warning about the need for swift action to eradicate the spottedlanternfly. The chairman of the commissioners delivered his plea for federal</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>funding in appropriately stark terms during an appearance before a legislative</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>forum at the Pennsylvania Farm Show.<br><br>"We need an immediate response. If we don't</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>get these resources to us before the spring hatch in two months, it may be too</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>late," Leinbach said. "The spotted lanternfly will wipe out the grape</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>industry, could wipe out hardwood, and is impacting orchards."<br><br>"This is apocalyptic from an economic and</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>environmental standpoint," he added. "We have heard from grapegrowers and orchard owners: One more year of this, and they are out of</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>business."<br><br>Those of us who have witnessed the rapid spread</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>of the pest over the past few years know that the commissioner is hardly</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>exaggerating. For a while it was largely limited to a relatively small, rural</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>section of eastern Berks County. But in 2017 the pest was spotted in large</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>numbers in much of the region.<br><br>The spotted lanternfly is native to Asia butcame to North America in a shipment to Berks County, where it was first spotted</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>in 2014. The pest, which destroys grape vineyards and hardwoods and has been</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>seen in apple orchards, has spread to 13 southeast Pennsylvania counties.<br><br>Leinbach needed to make a strong case because of</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>the uphill climb he's facing. He is requesting $40 million in federal funding.</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Getting any money from Washington or Harrisburg is difficult right now. Getting</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>it in a matter of weeks is even more challenging.<br><br>If he accomplished nothing more than putting</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>this issue on state and national lawmakers' radar, it will have been worth the</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>trip to Harrisburg, though we do urge officials to find funding right away to</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>combat the pest and research ways to eradicate it.<br><br>Right now the problem is largely unknown outside</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>this region. Leinbach is making a persuasive argument that it won't be long</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>before it spreads to other states unless something is done swiftly. Each year</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>the number of lanternflies grows, more eggs are laid, and the numbers keep</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>multiplying. Leinbach said the number of lanternflies is approaching 1</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>trillion.<br><br>"If we are not successful," thecommissioner argued, "not only will Pennsylvania face quarantines, theUnited States could face quarantines because Canada, South America, Mexico and</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Europe are watching it."<br><br>Leinbach told the panel the plan is to prepare</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>40,000 trap trees in the spring. A notch would be cut around certain trees toseep sap and attract the insects. The trap trees would be treated with</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>pesticide. Money is needed to execute this plan.<br><br>But we should not be leaving the response to</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>this problem to government alone. Landowners need to destroy the ailanthus</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>tree, also known as the tree of heaven. The spotted lanternfly feeds on it</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>before reproducing. And people in areas that haven't seen the pest in the past</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>should report lanternfly sightings to state agriculture officials.<br><br>This is the year to get a handle on this program.That means a strong effort by all levels of government in cooperation with</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>residents in affected areas. Leinbach's appearance in Harrisburg should push</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>things in that direction.<br><br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <<a href="http://lists.maipc.org/pipermail/maipc-maipc.org/attachments/20180120/7ec82ac4/attachment-0001.html" target="_blank">http://lists.maipc.org/pipermail/maipc-maipc.org/attachments/20180120/7ec82ac4/attachment-0001.html</a>><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2018 20:16:03 -0500<br>From: "Marc Imlay" <<a href="mailto:ialm@erols.com">ialm@erols.com</a>><br>To: "'MAIPC Listserve'" <<a href="mailto:maipc@lists.maipc.org">maipc@lists.maipc.org</a>><br>Subject: Re: [MAIPC] spotted lanternfly<br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:006701d39255$6828b4d0$387a1e70$@erols.com">006701d39255$6828b4d0$387a1e70$@erols.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br><br>The solution may still be EDRR , Early Detection, Rapid Response. The barrier is NIMBY; it is Not In My Back Yard. People take action when they can feel it. As Kerrie said, what good is early detection without rapid response, with WLBG a decade ago. This barrier has been met before but only with a strong enough effort. <br><br>Marc<br><br>From: MAIPC [<a href="mailto:maipc-bounces@lists.maipc.org?">mailto:maipc-bounces@lists.maipc.org</a>] On Behalf Of Richard Gardner<br>Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2018 6:02 PM<br>To: MAIPC Listserve <<a href="mailto:maipc@lists.maipc.org">maipc@lists.maipc.org</a>><br>Subject: [MAIPC] spotted lanternfly<br><br>Thoughts on this article? My two questions are if there are Eastern North American relatives to this insect and what is the specific location where it was introduced?<br><br>Editorial: A strong argument for help fighting lanternfly<br><br>Monday January 15, 2018 12:01 AM Reading Eagle, Reading, Berks County, PA<br><br>Berks County Commissioner Christian Y. Leinbach must have taken a panel of U.S. and state lawmakers aback with his strongly worded warning about the need for swift action to eradicate the spotted lanternfly. The chairman of the commissioners delivered his plea for federal funding in appropriately stark terms during an appearance before a legislative forum at the Pennsylvania Farm Show.<br><br>"We need an immediate response. If we don't get these resources to us before the spring hatch in two months, it may be too late," Leinbach said. "The spotted lanternfly will wipe out the grape industry, could wipe out hardwood, and is impacting orchards."<br><br>"This is apocalyptic from an economic and environmental standpoint," he added. "We have heard from grape growers and orchard owners: One more year of this, and they are out of business."<br><br>Those of us who have witnessed the rapid spread of the pest over the past few years know that the commissioner is hardly exaggerating. For a while it was largely limited to a relatively small, rural section of eastern Berks County. But in 2017 the pest was spotted in large numbers in much of the region.<br><br>The spotted lanternfly is native to Asia but came to North America in a shipment to Berks County, where it was first spotted in 2014. The pest, which destroys grape vineyards and hardwoods and has been seen in apple orchards, has spread to 13 southeast Pennsylvania counties.<br><br>Leinbach needed to make a strong case because of the uphill climb he's facing. He is requesting $40 million in federal funding. Getting any money from Washington or Harrisburg is difficult right now. Getting it in a matter of weeks is even more challenging.<br><br>If he accomplished nothing more than putting this issue on state and national lawmakers' radar, it will have been worth the trip to Harrisburg, though we do urge officials to find funding right away to combat the pest and research ways to eradicate it.<br><br>Right now the problem is largely unknown outside this region. Leinbach is making a persuasive argument that it won't be long before it spreads to other states unless something is done swiftly. Each year the number of lanternflies grows, more eggs are laid, and the numbers keep multiplying. Leinbach said the number of lanternflies is approaching 1 trillion.<br><br>"If we are not successful," the commissioner argued, "not only will Pennsylvania face quarantines, the United States could face quarantines because Canada, South America, Mexico and Europe are watching it."<br><br>Leinbach told the panel the plan is to prepare 40,000 trap trees in the spring. A notch would be cut around certain trees to seep sap and attract the insects. The trap trees would be treated with pesticide. Money is needed to execute this plan.<br><br>But we should not be leaving the response to this problem to government alone. Landowners need to destroy the ailanthus tree, also known as the tree of heaven. The spotted lanternfly feeds on it before reproducing. And people in areas that haven't seen the pest in the past should report lanternfly sightings to state agriculture officials.<br><br>This is the year to get a handle on this program. That means a strong effort by all levels of government in cooperation with residents in affected areas. Leinbach's appearance in Harrisburg should push things in that direction.<br><br><br></span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br />
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