FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) - A Fort Wayne woman says she has seen more than just buses at the city’s Baker Street bus station lately; she has noticed spotted lanternflies - an invasive insect officials warn could pose a major threat to Indiana’s trees and crops.

Elizabeth Dahlkamp spends many days waiting for her bus downtown and says the bugs have become a regular sight.

“There was a time recently, actually, at the bus terminal here that I was talking with a friend and she pointed one out and she goes I’ve seen these around lately, but I have no clue what they are.” Elizabeth Dahlkamp.

Dahlkamp says she hopes to never encounter them at home, “I’d probably kill it, or, in all honesty, I’d get my fiancé to kill it,” she says.

The Indiana Department of Natural Resources confirms several re

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