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Native to China, this striking, black-and-red planthopper showed up in the U.S. for the first time in 2014, perhaps stowed away on an international shipment of decorative stone bound for Berks County in eastern Pennsylvania.

The planthopper was thought to be accidentally imported to Berks County, Pa., in 2014, presumably in a shipping container from Asia.

Native to Asia, the large, colorful planthopper sucks sap from valuable trees and vines, weakening them.

The study represents researchers’ first attempt to quantify the destruction caused by the large, colorful planthopper.

In the wake of the Green Revolution, insects such as the rice hispa and the brown planthopper, which had never before posed a significant problem, devastated rice crops in several Asian countries.