TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - The spotted lantern flies (SLF) are beginning to disappear for the winter, but they worked hard, so they can reappear next year.

SLF begin laying eggs in September and continue throughout October. Once temperatures start to get to freezing levels, the adults will begin to die. It is the eggs that survive throughout the winter and then hatch in the spring.

“Eggs can be laid on trees, but really any flat surface. You may find them on fences, posts, even on rocks,” says Amy Stone, an extension educator with Ohio State University.

“When we see them on trees, they are often on the undersides of branches. They can be through the whole canopy, so very high up to where the roots meet the ground.”

The eggs are laid in individual rows or chains and there can be 30-50 eggs p

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