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My girlfriend has murdered at least 1000 spotted lantern flies this season and regularly goes up to the roof of our building for some spree time. I read your piece aloud to her and she was so thrilled and complimentary. Keep it up!

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I have so felt this exact same sentiment about my kids: “...so it’s just me and these clowns for now.

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A friend was horrified recently when a group of us all got our blood lust up over a lantern fly. "The government tells you to murder these things and you just go along with it???"

Like we are the only species that's allowed to be invasive. We roll into new continents and extinct a bunch of megafauna, then 12 thousand years later a pretty fly kills a few trees and we're all HEY THAT'S OUR JOB

Seriously, though, how long will it take the birds to learn to eat these things?

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i only want to hang out with moms who refer to their offspring as "clowns." i wrote like 4000 words about murdering flies once: https://momspreading.substack.com/p/optimization-and-infestation

get it girl

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Just keep them in the northeast because I don't need to go on stomping sprees here in Texas!

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