Copying a post from Map showing spread of spotted lanternfly in the US. 2016-2024 thread which is closed. The animated maps and graphs on iNat Explorer can also be used to look at the spread of invasive species.
@erininm had made this same map for 2016-2019. That thread is closed though.
I remade it and added all the years since then and tweaked some of the options. I also expanded the range to all of North America since it seems to have spread to Canada and there was a dead one found in Mexico as well.
@common_snowball @paul_dennehy Here’s an animated map that shows the spread of spotted lanternfly by year since 2016 in the US and Canada. Press play button to start/pause the animation.
https://inat-explorer.dataexplorers.info/?taxon_id=324726&place_id=1,6712&verifiable=true&spam=false&d1=2016-01-01&per_page=24&map_category=year
Here’s a graph of the same data.
https://inat-explorer.dataexplorers.info/?taxon_id=324726&place_id=1,6712&verifiable=true&spam=false&d1=2016-01-01&per_page=24&view=observations_observations&subview=graph&graphs_category=year&graphs_group_by=places
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