: any of several large brightly marked homopterous insects (family Fulgoridae) having the front of the head prolonged into a hollow structure
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Recent Examples on the WebThe female lantern fly can lay between 30 and 50 eggs each, usually between September and October. Teddy Grant, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2022 The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services announced Thursday that egg masses and dead adult spotted lantern flies were detected at a stone yard near Winchester last month.Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2018