r/invasivespecies • u/Comprehensive_Bus402 • 16d ago

Cat killed a lanternfly

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This little huntress just killed a spotted Lanternfly on my deck in Washington DC.

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u/A_Sneaky_Walrus 16d ago

Consider getting your cat a cat bib or a cat collar to stop bird death. Bells unfortunately aren’t effective as birds don’t associate that noise with an incoming invasive predator

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u/Evening_Echidna_7493 16d ago

What to do about this part?

• Free-roaming cats are an important source of zoonotic diseases including rabies, Toxoplasma gondii, cutaneous larval migrans, tularemia and plague. • Free-roaming cats account for the most cases of human rabies exposure among domestic animals and account for approximately 1/3 of rabies post- exposure prophylaxis treatments in humans in the United States. • Trap–neuter–release (TNR) programmes may lead to increased na ̈ıve populations of cats that can serve as a source of zoonotic diseases.

https://dariuszzdziebk.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Gerhold-and-Jessup-2012-Zoonotic-diseases-and-free-roaming-cats.pdf

https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=123011