They're on pavements, in gardens, and in our local parks.

If you're in the Northeast, you've probably seen a spotted lanternfly this summer.

The invasive species has now spread to 19 states devouring dozens of plants, most notably grape vines, as correspondent Dima Zane reports.

In the foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, Loving Cup Vineyard buzzes with life.

There's just a host of tiny little insects that you would never know were there, but they're constantly working for you.

But this year, owner Carl Hamps says it's crawling with a new unwelcome visitor.

This is a spotted lanternfly adult.

The bug doesn't feed on grape leaves or fruit like other invasive species.

It sticks a straw into the vine and it sucks the sap from the vine, the energy out of the vine.

So it's like a little vampire.

As Virginia's only certified organic vineyard and winery, Loving Cup can't spray conventional insecticides to kill the little freeloaders.

So Hamsh has taken a drastic step, removing about 15 to 25% of the vineyard's fruit.

We removed all the clusters off of these vines to allow them to bank the extra energy just to grow leaves and to

prepare themselves for infestation by spotted lanternfly.

Young spotted lantern flies feast on more than 70 plant species, but when they mature

into adults, they become pickier eaters and mainly focus on two plants, the tree of heaven, another invasive species, and grape vines.

Every invasive that has come into the vineyard has ultimately been absorbed by nature,

but this is one that we might lose the vineyard for.

Virginia's wineries are just the latest targets of the spotted lanternfly, which first arrived

in the country about a decade ago on a shipment of stone from Asia to southeastern Pennsylvania.

They hit the Keystone State's wineries hard, says entomologist Doug Pfeiffer.

When it was first introduced before people really knew what it was or how to handle it,

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