- and squash them they did, gleefully! To the point where I begin to feel bad for the helpless insects. Sometimes I wonder, what if it was the other way around?

'Invaders' - In recent years our backyard has been invaded with Spotted Lantern Flies. As summer approaches we begin to see the hatchlings transform from tiny black insects to the rather beautiful adult Lantern Flies, but knowing they are invasive, I gave my children permission to squash them-

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