You’ve probably noticed a distinct increase in spotted lanternflies over the past month or so. That’s not your imagination.

The proliferation of the invasive species of plant-hoppers, discovered in Pennsylvania’s Berk County in 2014, has grown to the point that they have started to show up on weather radar.

The Weather Channel last week reported in a video that so many of the bugs are flying around the mid-Atlantic region that they’re appearing on their radar screens. Radar beams are going out to pick up weather, but the sheer volume of the bugs is causing the beams to bounce back to the radar site.

It looks like static, similar to a rainstorm.

In a video , the Weather Channel showed the northern edge of the “storm of bugs” around the Chambersburg and York areas, and continuing a

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