Take the Quiz! Pick the Worst New York City Summer Plagues.

Summer in New York City brings seasonal delights (long days! free concerts! free swimming pools!) as well as seasonal irritations (slow-walking tourists, the smell of hot trash, firecrackers). While there are a host of classic annoyances we’ve grown used to, a batch of new nuisances have arrived to make the sunny months even more challenging.

Which ones are merely aggravating, and which are absolutely intolerable? It’s up to you to choose what’s worse.

As the most common New York City roommate who doesn’t pay rent, the cockroach has been a local pest for decades, if not centuries. A 1988 study claimed the city’s cockroach population might be declining — but years later, evidence from inside your apartment building says otherwise.

A flashy invasive species that government officials have asked New Yorkers to murder on sight, the spotted lanternfly doesn’t bite humans, but it is very destructive to certain plants. And since it has an affinity for grapevines, it puts your glass of locally grown wine at risk.