Source: Russ Bowen, CBS17, 5/27/21

 An invasive species of beetle and fly are getting close enough to North Carolina to make North Carolina State University experts a bit anxious. The vigilantes are the Asian long-horned beetle and the spotted lanternfly. They’re invasive species that cause nothing but destruction. In nearby states, the spotted lanternfly is writing its own version of The Grapes of Wrath. “They’re on our doorstep. One of them is in Virginia and the other has been found in South Carolina, so grapevines in areas that they’ve already invaded, they’re seeing a 90-percent reduction in grape crops,” said Kelly Oten, an N.C. State ...

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