Spotted Lanternfly inHudson County, NJSPOTTED LANTERNFLY GUIDE

Hudson County is the most densely urbanized county in New Jersey — home to Jersey City and Hoboken — confirmed for SLF in 2019 as populations established throughout the county's compact but intensely developed landscape directly across the Hudson River from Manhattan. The Lincoln Tunnel approach corridor is one of the most critical SLF spread vectors in the entire region, channeling enormous volumes of commuter and freight traffic between Midtown Manhattan and New Jersey's established infestation zone. PATH train service to lower Manhattan and the World Trade Center carries daily passenger traffic from New York City's growing SLF zone into Hudson County and beyond. Liberty State Park — occupying reclaimed industrial land on the Hudson River waterfront with sweeping views of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island — has become a significant SLF monitoring site as Tree of Heaven colonizes the park's disturbed margins. Port Jersey, the county's freight shipping hub, represents an ongoing SLF reinforcement node via containerized cargo movement.