@mo0nsgreenthumb's wonderful observation of a Bold Jumping Spider (Phidippus audax) preying on a spotted lanternfly is today's iNaturalist observation of the day! Congratulations, Rita!

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/95810897

We now have 89 observations of SLF predation or parasitism in the project across 35 species. Here's hoping we get a bunch more with the added publicity.

Great article by Amy Duke featuring research by
Kelli Hoover and Anne Johnson out of Penn State on predation of Spotted Lanternfly by local birds. (Anne is now one of the project managers on this iNat project, so your bird observations here are already helping contribute to their study!)

https://paenvironmentdaily.blogspot.com/2020/09/study-at-penn-state-examines-potential.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PaEnvironmentDaily+%28PA+Environment+Daily+Blog%29&m=1