Foresters eye
Gypsy moth
SCRANTON One of the
most destructive insects to
ever mvade the forests of the
Northeastern United States
will be on the defensive for
the first time this year.
The leaf-eating gypsy
moth will be “on the run”
because of a wide range of
state and U.S. Department
of Agriculture action
programs designed to keep
down the damage and
nuisance this pest can cause.
“Gypsy moths are the
most destructive hardwood
tree defoliator m the Nor
theast,” said Stanley Mc-
Nally, area director of the
department’s Animal and
Plant Health Inspection
Service, “but with ell the
research and field ex
perience gained over the
years, we are finally lear
ning to deal with it.”
Gypsy moth caterpillars
stripped almost 650,000 acres
of forests in 1979, principally
in the northeastern states.
USDA’s Forest Service
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predicts this year’s
defoliation will be down to
about 270,000 acres.
Even so, in hard hit areas
trees may be weakened or
even killed, creatmg fire
hazards and destroying bird
and animal habitats, Mc-
Nally said. Gypsy moths can
be a nuisance to
homeowners and spoil the
appeal of outdoor recreation
areas.
“In our program against
the gypsy moth,” McNally
said, “we first try to keep
down damage in the
generally infested area and
second, prevent artificial,
people-caused spread to new
areas. If isolated outbreaks
do occur, they are wiped out.
Environmental impacts
are reviewed m advance by
the department and the
Environmental Protection
Agency.
“Every option is con
sidered and public input
solicited,” McNally said.
“We conduct spray
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stepped-up
programs
programs m the Northeast to
reduce damage and
nuisance caused by the moth
m the generally infested
area,” McNally said. “State
agencies survey to deter
mine were defoliation by the
moth will be heaviest the
following year. Local
communities then decide if
they want a treatment
program. If they do, the
operation is coordinated at
the federal level by USDA’s
Forest Service.”
Both chemical and
biological insecticides are
used, he said. Most are
applied in late May or early
June. About 143,000 acres in
Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
and New York are scheduled
for these treatments m 1980.
APHIS is in charge of
regulatory treatments at
heavily infested cam
pgrounds, McNally said.
“It’s likely gypsy moths will
be spread to new areas from
these campgrounds,” he
said.
Chemical insecticides will
be used on 15,656 acres m
campgrounds m Penn
sylvania, Connecticut,
Maine, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, New Jersey,
New York, Rhode Island and
Vermont, McNally said.
Isolated infestations have
already been found this year
in Illinois, Ohio, Virginia and
Michigan and will be dealt
with m cooperative state-
APHIS programs.
Isolated infestations occur
when moth eggs or other life
stages hitchhike to new
areas with people or in
commerce, McNally said.
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This happens fairly often
because the female moth
may lay her eggs on
vehicles, camping gear,
lawn furniture or almost
anything else out-of-doors,”
he said.
“The best tool to use
against an outlying in
festation depends on the
nature and size of the area,
its environmental sen
sitivity, the intensity of the
outbreak and the likelihood
of spread to other areas,”
McNally said. “We also take
into account the desires of
local residents and lan
downers.”
High-density trapping uses
cardboard traps baited with
a chemical that mimics the
female moth’s phermone—
sex attractant. When many
of the traps are placed in an
area, they either capture or
confuse the males looking
for a female moth and
mating does not occur.
In the sterile-male
technique, male gypsy moth
pupae are sexually sterilized
with precise doses of
radiation and released as
adults to mate with native
female moths. Eggs that are
laid will not hatch.
To find isolated in
festations while they are still
small enough to be
eliminated, federal, state
and volunteer workers set
thousands of phermone
baited traps all over the
country, McNally said.
“In 1979, the trapping
turned up moths in Nebraska
and Oregon for the first
time, along with repeat finds
in 16 other states outside
generally infested area in
Pennsylvania, New
England, New York, and
New Jersey. Plant protec
tion officials will closely
monitor those sites this year
to determine the catches are
new infestations or merely
lone hitchhikers.”
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