Re: Gypsy moth

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Yvonne

I think your best bet for solid information is to contact an area that has
been through a 'first infestation' and the accompanying panic and spraying.
In northern Oakland County MI we have areas that are analogous to your
Oakville area. Our populace panicked. The DPW responded with 'crop dusters
at dawn'. We killed off a lot of butterfly larvae. We've stopped spraying;
the gypsy moth is still here but in much smaller/live-withable numbers. Now
they tell us that that is the pattern that gypsy moth follows: infest,
population peak, get along. By spraying we likely accomplished little or
nothing toward altering their pattern.

Maryann

Maryann Whitman, Journal Editor
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