¢) 8 The Dallas Post Dallas, PA Wednesday, June 7, 1995 © ¢ Bugs (continued from page 1) needs doing.” Jobs He even rides in the chopper with pilot Ted Ohlmer to point out landmarks denoting the bounda- ries of the areas to be sprayed, often getting up at 4 a.m. to start at 5:30. “It's a long day,” he said. “Ideally you need several large tracts of land together, for ex- ample entire streets or develop- ments,” he said. “You have to be careful to detour around anyone who has said they don’t want their property sprayed. You have to know all the landmarks.” He has great faith in Ohlmer’s piloting skills. “Many crop dusters flew heli- copters in the service,” he said. “I feel a lot safer with them than riding with some people in cars.” Ohlmer landed his helicopter at the Dallas Township municipal building Monday at lunch time after spraying sections of Dallas Township that morning. “I'm using a stronger BT than what we normally use for gypsy moths,” he said. “The bugs are ‘much larger and require more for it to work. It's a bit late to spray, but this is the time that we have the widest range of all of them hatching at once.” Sévin, tree wraps may help There isn't much home owners can do now to protect themselves now, except to try Sevin, a pesti- cide available in lawn and garden shops and discount stores, Hef- fron said. Tree wraps, made of either burlap or sticky tape, may help prevent them from climbing into trees during the day. “Even then, we won't guaran- tee it will work,” Heffron said. “You really have to get at them early, in late April or early May when they first hatch and are still in the nests.” The most effective way for home owners to curb a caterpillar popu- lation explosion is to destroy the nests as soon as they appear in the spring, either by cutting and burning the branches where they've set up housekeeping or by dabbing at the nests with a kero- sene-soaked rag. The idea is to kill as many as possible before they leave. Unfortunately, elm spanworm nests are difficult to spot because the bugs make them in incon- spicuous spots on the undersides of leaves. Destroying nests now won't do any good because they're empty. “This is a never-ending battle,” Wagner said. “We have run pri- vate spraying since the late 1970's, mostly for gypsy moth. We won't get them all this time — some are ready to go into cocoons and have already quit eating. We'll see their offspring next year.” The gypsy moth and elm spanworm are the most destruc- tive of the four, able to strip entire trees of their foliage, Heffron said. Gypsy moth infestations once came in seven-year cycles, but now peak every three to six years. Their infestations are often ac- companied by larger populations of their natural predators, the bald-faced wasp and yellow- shafted flicker. The elm spanworm is relatively new to the area, first attracted to Northeastern Pennsylvania three years ago by the bright city lights, she added. In mid to late June they'll turn into small white moths, which congregate around street lights. “There isn't much information available about the other three species yet,” she said. The tent caterpillar invasion is the worst Heffron's office has seen in 20 years, she said. The elm spanworm mostly eats walnut, oak, elm, ash and hickory trees, while the tent caterpillars like to munch on oak, birch, apple, box elder, cherry, willow, aspen POST PHOTO/GRACE R. DOVE BUG PATROL - Helicopter pilot Ted Ohlmer landed his chopper at the Dallas Township building for a lunch break Monday. He has been spraying the area for caterpillars. row and poplar trees, she said. Gypsy moths will eat just about anything in sight, particularly during heavy infestations, when they have been observed eating cedar and poison ivy, which are toxic to them. Compounding the problem, the (continued from page 1) than we are. 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