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“I kill them whenever I can.”
“I kill them whenever I can.”
There was once a time when you could see a firefly light up a summer sunset and it would have felt joyous. But since their first appearances on Staten Island in August of 2020, spotted lanternflies have put the kibosh on otherwise innocent bug sightings in the city.
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