If you see one of these beautiful bugs, "squish it, that’s the message," the director of horticulture at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden said. https://t.co/XneKBExU7H

— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 16, 2021

I saw one on Jay Street yesterday, but didn't know what it was.

They have been out here in the Lehigh valley a couple of years . It a handsome bug  but terribly destructive. I gues it’s a mixed blessing they go after Ailanthus trees. 

the worms crawl in.