Permits and Training Required by Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture to Prevent Spread of Spotted Lantern Fly, Effective May 2019 Thursday March 07, 2019 | Announcements To prevent the further spread of the Spotted Lanternfly (which is damaging to agriculture), a series of quarantined areas have been designated in southeastern Pennsylvania. The spotted lanternfly is an invasive species of insects from Asia that first appeared in Pennsylvania in 2014.
