Lanternflys: first year tips

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This spring the spotted lanternflys have hatched strong in my area for the first time. Anyone have a couple of years under your belt dealing with them? Any tips?

My trees are “organic” in that I don’t use any pesticides.
 
Well, it's our 5th year with them. They are impossible to kill organically, but they seem to bother only the certain trees. Their compatriot ailanthus, black walnuts and curly willows by my observation. These trees are covered in black sooty mold from their excrement.
I though last winter being so cold would adversely affect them, but they are hatching...
 
Well, it's our 5th year with them. They are impossible to kill organically, but they seem to bother only the certain trees. Their compatriot ailanthus, black walnuts and curly willows by my observation. These trees are covered in black sooty mold from their excrement.
I though last winter being so cold would adversely affect them, but they are hatching...
Do you manage with pesticides?
 
Do you manage with pesticides?
No. The threes I am talking about are on the edge of our woods and are too big to spray.
We see them on our grapes, but they don't seem to cause any damage there. And they seem to diminish every year...
 
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