It sounds like the title of this summer’s blockbuster movie, but it’s not. It’s reality TV, and whether or not you have seen them in your yard or garden, you can be almost certain they are lurking there. They are an invasive insect called the spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delacatula) – SLF for short. They’re currently morphing through one of several nymph stages. Very soon there will be thousands of adult lanternflies in our community. They attack trees, vines, and shrubs, and there isn’t much we can do about it.