D4-Lancaster Farming Saturday, July 6,1991
TOWANDA (Bradford Co.)
The gypsy moth feeding season
has just about come to an end this
year.
You may have experienced seri
ous defoliation in your woodlot,
especially if you have a high per
centage of oak. Hopefully, the
population of the gypsy moth was
so large that they were stressed.
When the gypsy moth popula
tion is stressed, they are suscepti
ble to fungal and viral diseases.
You should check your woods and
see if you can see dead gypsy
moths hanging upside down from
the branches. That is a good sign
that these diseases have been at
work. If you are lucky and the con
ditions were right, you will see lots
of these dead caterpillars.
The extension office has
received numerous calls from con
cerned woodlot owners about how
and who can spray their woodlands
for gypsy moth. These calls began
in May and continued throughout
the gypsy moth season. As most of
those individuals discovered, this
was 100 late to start thinking about
spraying. In order to determine if
your woodlot should be sprayed
and to arrange for someone to
spray, you should start this fall.
Since some species of trees are
more preferred as food than others,
the first thing you need to do is to
learn how to identify the trees you
have on your woodlot Trees such
as oak, aspen, birch, and basswood
are favorite foods of the gypsy
moth, while trees like ash, yellow
poplar, locust and sycamore are
not preferred foods.
Once you can identify trees, you
should take a walk in your woods
and try to determine what percen
tage of your trees are of the prc-
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ferred food species, especially
oaks. If you have more than 40 per
cent oak trees in your woods, your
woodlot may be susceptible to
defoliation.
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considerations. If your woods will
be ready to harvest within 10
years, you need to consider their
condition. If, for example, they
were heavily defoliated last year,
spraying may turn out to be a
viable option.
After these considerations, you
need to walk your woods and count
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trees. If you encounter 200 or more
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200 in your entire woods), you
have the potential for a gypsy moth
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acre. A lot depends on how many
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kind of aircraft does the spraying.
You may want to meet with your
neighbors and discuss having their
properties sprayed also.
The more acres there are to
spray, the less the cost per acre. If
you decide to spray, you should
then contact an individual or com
pany that will spray your woods.
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The extension office has a list ot
contractors that have sprayed in
Pennsylvania in the past and may
be willing to spray.
Whatever you decide to do, you
should make sure you make the
decision carefully and not panic
when you see gypsy moths in the
woods. It generally takes two or
nv' m 'on sec u live years of defolia
tion o kill healthy trees. Also,
remember that you will not elimi
nate gypsy moth. The insect is
going to be with us forever and we
are going to have to leant to live
with it
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