Are you seeing spotted lanternflies in your area of the state?

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8. They're still very small but they hop around like crazy

I don't think they're flying yet, so we don't recognize them as hopping insects.

As I said in my OP, the bugs I saw at the beginning of July looked like ladybugs, only they had white spots on the red dome-shaped bodies. I thought they were different-looking ladybugs. But it turned out they were spotted lanternflies, and eventually they grew into the pointy-head shapes they are now.

I see them almost everyday while I'm out walking my dog. I'm trying to stomp them, but it isn't easy.