The Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences’ popular Science Saturday programs – all held remotely this year – focus on environmental issues that directly affect the local community. On Feb. 20, Richard J. Buckley, director of the Rutgers Plant Diagnostic Laboratory, will discuss the invasive spotted lanternfly, an insect that threatens U.S. tourism, agricultural and logging industries.

Spotted lanternflies, which are native to China, India and Vietnam, were detected in Berks County, Pa., in 2014.