Moorestown, NJ – For his March “Serve with Senator Singleton” event, State Senator Troy Singleton will partner with the Burlington County Parks System in an effort to eliminate Spotted Lanternfly eggs and to “Beat the Bug.” The event will take place at Pennington Park, 801 Creek Road, Delanco on Saturday, March 27 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

The Senator and a team of volunteers will receive a scraping card, zipper-lock bag, and hand sanitizer to scrape, collect and destroy the lanternfly eggs before they hatch. Parks staff will instruct volunteers on how to identify the egg masses, scrape the eggs off trees, collect them into the bags, and destroy them with sanitizer. Anyone interested in volunteering with the Senator can sign-up here:

https://www.troysingleton.com/serve_with_senator_singleton_at_pennington_park_to_beat_the_bug

“Over the past several years, we have recruited ready, willing, and able volunteers to be of service to our local communities through our monthly service projects,” said Senator Singleton (D-Burlington). “This month’s project is extremely important and timely because we must ‘beat the bugs’ before they hatch later this spring. While small, these invasive critters are dangerous to our region’s vegetation, which is why we are joining with volunteers for a ‘Scraping Saturday’ event.”

“Burlington County is renown across the state and beyond for its scenic parks, forests and farms. We all need to work together to protect these precious resources from the spotted lanternfly menace,” said Commissioner Linda Hynes, the Board’s liaison to the Department of Resource Conservation and the County Parks System. “It may sound icky to some, but it’s not that difficult and is vitally important for the protection of the county’s trees and crops. Eliminating them now offers the best chance to control the population and the plant damage they cause.”

This will be Senator Singleton’s 28^th “Serve with Senator Singleton” event since becoming State Senator in 2018. Previous volunteer efforts include indoor and outdoor clean-up days, animal welfare projects, various clothing and supply drives, painting projects, and community event set-up and staffing. To date, more than 1,000 hours have been donated by volunteers to local community service projects. Since the pandemic, the Senator directed much of his community service focus on addressing food insecurity through food distributions and summertime Food Truck Friday events.