06/01/2026
This month’s Plant Pest Newsletter is out! In it, you can learn about: Spotted lanternfly hatch in Massachusetts, spotted lanternfly egg mass scraping, an update to the MA Prohibited Plant List to include Japanese angelica tree (Aralia elata) and sapphire berry (Asiatic sweetleaf; Symplocos paniculata), and six-spotted tiger beetle which is an insect native to Massachusetts that’s sometimes mistaken for emerald ash borer. Read the newsletter and learn more here: https://massnrc.org/pests/blog/?p=3942
Photo credits: Alden Dirks and chdphoto, iNaturalist