Visitors: Please check your car before arriving
Hello, visitors! Thank you for coming to visit this beautiful little state! We appreciate your business and shared love of the great outdoors.
Because of this shared interest, I am imploring visitors to please check your vehicles for the Spotted Lanternfly before arriving.
The Spotted Lanternfly is having a banner year in lower New England. I just returned from a trip to Connecticut and was gobsmacked (horrified, really) by the number of them in Hartford County. As I sat in traffic on I-91 in Springfield, MA, I watched one dive off a Honda Civic onto the vehicle behind it.
While I don't expect everyone to drop $50 on two scalding hot car washes/waxes, then stop on the side of the road to check for stowaways, I encourage those coming from particularly affected regions to do what you can to slow their spread. Please help protect our agricultural communities.
Vermont is a little state with little money. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Thank you all for coming to visit this brave little state. I hope you all enjoy your stays!