Your Trees and Landscaping

The spotted lanternfly feeds by piercing bark and sucking sap from the cambium layer of trees. Its preferred hosts in Southwest Virginia include silver maple, black walnut, wild grapevines, and the prolific Tree of Heaven, which grows along nearly every roadside in the Roanoke Valley. Repeated feeding weakens trees, leaving them vulnerable to disease, secondary pest infestation, and eventual die-off.

Ornamental maples and established shade trees that took decades to grow are particularly at risk on residential lots. Young fruit trees may not survive a heavy infestation.

Gardens, Fruit Trees & Vines

Grapevines, hops, apple trees, peach trees, blueberry bushes, and ornamental plantings in your yard are all documented feeding hosts. Virginia’s wine country extends into Bedford and Franklin Counties — and the vineyards there are watching closely. Homeowners with backyard gardens and young fruit trees face the same risk on a smaller scale. SLF stress can set back years of establishment growth in a single season.

The pest was originally a major concern for commercial agriculture. In residential SW Virginia, backyard orchards and vegetable garden trellises are seeing the same kind of pressure.

Your Outdoor Living Spaces

As spotted lanternflies feed, they excrete a sticky substance called honeydew that coats everything beneath the affected tree — your deck, patio furniture, children’s play equipment, and vehicles parked nearby. That honeydew ferments in Southwest Virginia’s summer heat, develops a black sooty mold, and draws in secondary pests: wasps, yellow jackets, ants, and hornets. An infestation can make your outdoor spaces genuinely unpleasant to spend time in.

Multiple Roanoke Valley homeowners last season reported a sticky black film on patio furniture and decks beneath heavily infested trees — within weeks of populations arriving.

Property Inspection

Your technician walks the full property to map the situation: host trees present (Tree of Heaven, silver maple, black walnut, wild grape), active nymph and adult populations, egg masses on hard surfaces, and areas of heaviest feeding pressure.

We identify the problem completely before recommending a treatment.

Targeted Treatment

We apply an exterior perimeter barrier treatment using EPA-approved insecticides consistent with Virginia state agricultural recommendations, including bifenthrin-class products proven effective against spotted lanternfly nymphs and adults. Where appropriate, direct tree treatments are added for high-pressure host trees on your property.

Treatment is targeted. We protect your yard without unnecessary broad applications.

Egg Mass Removal

Every egg mass left on your property in the fall is next spring’s infestation. Our technicians locate and destroy egg masses on trees, deck railings, fence posts, outbuildings, and other hard surfaces. We’ll show you exactly what to look for so you can stay on top of it between our seasonal visits.

Fall egg removal is critical. Don’t skip it if you want to start the season ahead.

Year-Round Protection

Spotted lanternfly is a year-round presence in Southwest Virginia. Our Four Seasons Pest Control plan builds SLF monitoring and treatment into every scheduled visit — active-season treatments in spring and summer, egg mass work in fall, and monitoring through winter. No gaps, no scrambling when populations spike in July.

Four Seasons customers are covered without having to call and schedule each time.

Already a Four Seasons Customer?

Spotted lanternfly treatment and monitoring can be incorporated into your existing plan. Give us a call or mention it on your next service visit and your technician will add a property assessment to their next scheduled stop. No separate appointment needed in most cases.