Finger Lakes invasion of spotted lanternfly predicted | News | fltimes.com

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Finger Lakes invasion of spotted lanternfly predicted | News | fltimes.com

GENEVA — The Finger Lakes may be invaded by the spotted lanternfly soon.

The insect is an invasive pest from Asia that feeds primarily on trees and a variety of plants, including grapevines, hops, maple, walnut and fruit trees. It arrived in Pennsylvania in 2014. They have spread to Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia and now New York, starting on Long Island and in downstate areas.

They pose a risk to state agricultural and forest health, as they use their sucking mouth parts to feed on the sap of more than 70 plant species, making the plants vulnerable to disease and attacks from other insects. Officials worry that the spotted lanternfly will harm the state’s grape and apple crops.

While I get the benefits of IDEs, I tend to find them nausating with all the windows and buttons on the screen

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While I get the benefits of IDEs, I tend to find them nausating with all the windows and buttons on the screen. I use the geany text editor for many of my coding projects — it is an IDE / text editor, with fewer buttons and a much faster interface. Other times I use Jupyter, especially when I am developing Python or R code.

I get the benefits of having object explorers and integrated debuggers — but you can get a variable inspector plug-in for Jupyter, and can often break up code into short enough segments for easy debugging in Jupyter.