Spotted Lanternfly inOnondaga County, NYSPOTTED LANTERNFLY GUIDE

Onondaga County — with Syracuse as county seat, the Heart of New York — confirmed SLF in 2022 at a highway node that may be the single most strategically significant freight intersection in all of upstate New York. I-81 and I-90 (the New York State Thruway) cross directly through Syracuse, connecting the entire East Coast freight corridor with the Great Lakes region and funneling vehicle and truck traffic through the heart of Central New York. The New York State Fair — held annually for 12 days at the Fairgrounds west of Syracuse — draws over one million visitors from across the state and region each summer, creating an exceptional vehicle-mediated SLF spread event. Onondaga Lake, once one of the most polluted lakes in the United States and now undergoing restoration, provides waterfront habitat for SLF establishment along its rehabilitated shoreline. Syracuse University's Hill campus overlooking the city is an active SLF monitoring site.