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  1. I don't think I could live in #CapeMay because I'd be very depressed at all the #invasive species. Clamatis vines smother entire fields of, ivy covers even the tallest trees, and now hordes of #SpottedLanternFlies are spreading through the area.

  2. @AlexGBardsley A few years ago in the 1st invasion, my condo complex fought the Battle of the Spotted Lanternflies. It was a ruinous battle. For them. They provoked our ire. You'd sit outside and they'd fearlessly land on your knee. NO MAS.

    The extermination program was quite successful. The next morning we had so many corpses on the portico that you couldn't walk without crunching along.

    Gross, but victory comes with a price. #spottedlanternflies

  3. Saw some early nymph stage #SpottedLanternFlies while doing yard work yesterday and today. Not many, about only 2-3, but enough to encourage me to keep working on my forsythia bushes. Oddly enough, it’s where I saw the most of these bugs two or three years ago, whenever that year that we were overrun by them in the Philly area.

  4. When is random flailing not random flailing? When you're doing some sneaky "inertial morphing" with your legs to flip over.

    Our new paper just posted to #bioRxiv uses 3D digital modeling and experiments on #SpottedLanternflies to understand how they self-right when they land on their backs. (Hint: It has a lot to do with body shape!) #newpaper

    biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

  5. Are you dreading the invasion of the #SpottedLanternflies or already deep in battle with them? Knowing which instar you're dealing with can help with figuring out how to eradicate them!

    Check out our #newpaper just out in #plosOne reporting on size clustering to distinguish among those first three otherwise identical black and white instars.

    Getting ready for their spring emergence...!

    journals.plos.org/plosone/arti

  6. Hi! I am an associate professor at #templeuniversity in #philadelphia studying how #lizards and other beasties (including #spiders and #SpottedLanternflies) move, fall, trip, and otherwise get around. I currently spend a lot of time getting my mind blown by #GranularPhysics because why, really, is running on #sand so hard? Interests: #biomechanics, #biomimetics, #bioinspiration, #robotics, #CuteAnimals, among other things! #introduction

  7. Hi! I am an associate professor at #templeuniversity in #philadelphia studying how #lizards and other beasties (including #spiders and #SpottedLanternflies) move, fall, trip, and otherwise get around. I currently spend a lot of time getting my mind blown by #GranularPhysics because why, really, is running on #sand so hard? Interests: #biomechanics, #biomimetics, #bioinspiration, #robotics, #CuteAnimals, among other things! #introduction

  8. Hi! I am an associate professor at #templeuniversity in #philadelphia studying how #lizards and other beasties (including #spiders and #SpottedLanternflies) move, fall, trip, and otherwise get around. I currently spend a lot of time getting my mind blown by #GranularPhysics because why, really, is running on #sand so hard? Interests: #biomechanics, #biomimetics, #bioinspiration, #robotics, #CuteAnimals, among other things! #introduction

  9. Hi! I am an associate professor at #templeuniversity in #philadelphia studying how #lizards and other beasties (including #spiders and #SpottedLanternflies) move, fall, trip, and otherwise get around. I currently spend a lot of time getting my mind blown by #GranularPhysics because why, really, is running on #sand so hard? Interests: #biomechanics, #biomimetics, #bioinspiration, #robotics, #CuteAnimals, among other things! #introduction

  10. Hi! I am an associate professor at #templeuniversity in #philadelphia studying how #lizards and other beasties (including #spiders and #SpottedLanternflies) move, fall, trip, and otherwise get around. I currently spend a lot of time getting my mind blown by #GranularPhysics because why, really, is running on #sand so hard? Interests: #biomechanics, #biomimetics, #bioinspiration, #robotics, #CuteAnimals, among other things! #introduction