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1 hour ago, Imp81318 said:

Their MO is that they enter an area and feed on all of the trees until they kill everything off then move onto the next area.

Adding to this... They usually migrate to areas that have groves of Paradise Trees, which are an invasive species of ornamental trees that was imported from Asia decades ago.  The trees sprout up and grow in groves, similar to bamboo.  They are natural forage for the lantern flies, so the flies move into an area and start off by eating all of the foliage off the paradise trees, killing them off.  Once they run out of paradise trees they move onto other trees, ornamental shrubs, etc. and can totally decimate an area within a couple of weeks.  Then they move on to the next area and repeat the same carnage.  My dad cut down dozens, probably more than 50, of paradise trees several years ago when the flies were just starting to get bad, and doing so probably saved a lot of the other trees on his property.  They had lantern flies pretty bad, but didn't get anywhere near the damage some areas have gotten.

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of course buck's county has lantern flies :roll:   

the wife ordered that mirror workout thing....so i hope to be less fat in the near future. thing's expensive as f...so i feel obligated to actually use it (for more than just as a mirror). we'll see.  🐷

 

1 minute ago, mr_hunt said:

the wife ordered that mirror workout thing....so i hope to be less fat in the near future. thing's expensive as f...so i feel obligated to actually use it (for more than just as a mirror). we'll see.  🐷

 

I'm curious to see how you like it so report back.  I'm hoping Peloton adds something similar to their workout equipment line so we can bundle it in with the classes we already pay for monthly.

13 minutes ago, mr_hunt said:

the wife ordered that mirror workout thing....so i hope to be less fat in the near future. thing's expensive as f...so i feel obligated to actually use it (for more than just as a mirror). we'll see.  🐷

 

I'll give you a week before you're done with it and back to your old self.

20 hours ago, rambo said:

I need to get one.  I wiped them out early on when they were nymphs on some of my trees with Sevin and recently discovered a bunch of them on a big bush in the front garden and wiped them out, too.  Feel like I have a pretty good handle on them this year but that looks like fun while I'm drinking and grilling when the survivors start jumping around.

 

 

Not gonna lie.... by the time I shot over a dozen of those Chinese b******s, I caught myself humming the star spangled banner.

If you need a special mirror to stay in shape, the only fitness for you is fitness whole pizza in your fat slob gut!

6 minutes ago, rambo said:

I'll give you a week before you're done with it and back to your old self.

a whole week.  you're more confident in me than i am. :lol:  

1 minute ago, mikemack8 said:

If you need a special mirror to stay in shape, the only fitness for you is fitness whole pizza in your fat slob gut!

the only thing that might keep me interested is if there are hot bro-ad instructors to look at. :whistle:  

1 minute ago, mr_hunt said:

a whole week.  you're more confident in me than i am. :lol:  

the only thing that might keep me interested is if there are hot bro-ad instructors to look at. :whistle:  

No question there will be hot bro-ad instructors

In all seriousness those things look super cool

30 minutes ago, mikemack8 said:

If you need a special mirror to stay in shape, the only fitness for you is fitness whole pizza in your fat slob gut!

may i suggest a funhouse mirror for the lazy/delusional. 

3 hours ago, mikemack8 said:

1,2

 I considered doing just that for them...... however I didn't want paco to get over excited.

 

I think I'll just get a carnival mirror to make myself look thinner

For those of you who are my friends on FB, go look at my latest post and the sheet show that is developing 🤣

@BFit @paco @Dawkins 20 et al...

3 minutes ago, bobeph said:

For those of you who are my friends on FB, go look at my latest post and the sheet show that is developing 🤣

@BFit @paco @Dawkins 20 et al...

your smarter than that bobeph - cmon

 

 

:roll: 

Holy crap.  You're boy is in a full fledged "5 year old at the mall" temper tantrum.  He had like 5 straight replies to himself :roll:

 

Edit: and he is the one person to reply to the meme you posted before that.  "I don't get it"  :lol: 

 

Edit2: the meme after that is one he sent you, and you replied "I posted that on the EMB"  Does he know about this place? :ph34r:

9 minutes ago, paco said:

Holy crap.  You're boy is in a full fledged "5 year old at the mall" temper tantrum.  He had like 5 straight replies to himself :roll:

 

Edit: and he is the one person to reply to the meme you posted before that.  "I don't get it"  :lol: 

 

Edit2: the meme after that is one he sent you, and you replied "I posted that on the EMB"  Does he know about this place? :ph34r:

Dude lost his teets! 🤣 He does not know about this place.  Funny thing is, we grew up in hickville, pa surrounded by people like @BFit and he turned out to be such a liberal whiner.  
looks like he gave up... or stopped to take his meds. :roll:

18 minutes ago, bobeph said:

For those of you who are my friends on FB, go look at my latest post and the sheet show that is developing 🤣

@BFit @paco @Dawkins 20 et al...

:roll:

Meltdown!

A friend of mine posted a pretty tame post on his timeline earlier this week about people complaining about mandatory masks. That post is currently sitting at > 120 replies and counting. :lol: Just an absolute war zone.

@bobeph Can I reply to one of his comments?  👼

6 minutes ago, Dawkins 20 said:

:roll:

Meltdown!

A friend of mine posted a pretty tame post on his timeline earlier this week about people complaining about mandatory masks. That post is currently sitting at > 120 replies and counting. :lol: Just an absolute war zone.

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You and me dude.  You and me :lol: 

Just now, paco said:

@bobeph Can I reply to one of his comments?  👼

Absolutely! 🤣 chances are he’ll throw another tantrum.  Lol....he’s not a "close” friend.  We lived in the same hood and went to hs together.  He’s like a hippie wanna be.  Avid Phish fan (gay).   I could honestly care less if I am FB friends with him or not.  Haven’t seen the d00d3 since I was in my 20’s.

10 minutes ago, Dawkins 20 said:

:roll:

Meltdown!

A friend of mine posted a pretty tame post on his timeline earlier this week about people complaining about mandatory masks. That post is currently sitting at > 120 replies and counting. :lol: Just an absolute war zone.

Blows my mind how apesheet people go over politics.  I just laugh the sheet off on FB and people go nuts.   Pffftttt....whatevs

Social distancing...I..I’m ukn’ dying :roll:

@paco

5 minutes ago, bobeph said:

Absolutely! 🤣 chances are he’ll throw another tantrum.  Lol....he’s not a "close” friend.  We lived in the same hood and went to hs together.  He’s like a hippie wanna be.  Avid Phish fan (gay).   I could honestly care less if I am FB friends with him or not.  Haven’t seen the d00d3 since I was in my 20’s.

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5 minutes ago, bobeph said:

Blows my mind how apesheet people go over politics.  I just laugh the sheet off on FB and people go nuts.   Pffftttt....whatevs

try getting some texan FB friends. 

1 minute ago, wholesale_Melvin said:

try getting some texans FB friends. 

Look for this profile of the name I’m going to message you

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