Gypsy Moths

[ga jones]

The gypsy moths are bad here this year.whole mountains clear of foliage already. The county doesn't have the money to spray.

[treeslayer2003]

i remember that here in the early 90s........hope they don't come back, don't sound good.

[timberlinetree]

Fact or fiction? Had a supervisor on the row crew who was on the ground durning a spray operation. Wrong cordinance dump lurant on him. I herd the story but would have never belived it but saw it with my own eyes. Twice. He would be talking to someone and out of the blue a mouth would start flying around him.

[CCC4]

I'm seeing lots of moths in sections of an 80 I am cutting  in. They are not everywhere though, seem to be in sick timber such as oak bore kill that is shedding their dying limbs. Where you see limb piles at the bases of the red oaks...there are a lot of moths. Other areas just 20 acres away with healthy timber...no moths.

[ga jones]

Thier in the oaks bad here. Thousands of acres bare. 3 more weeks until they cocoon.

[Brian_Rhoad]

I saw the first ones for the year last night crawling down the White Oaks trees. They are still on the trees, dead. They are soft and come apart when you try to pull them off the tree.

[timberlinetree]

Marcia and I where out in Ri/Eastern mass and noticed lots of white oaks defoilage.
Will the trees make it?
Does anyone know if (Fred) could really attract moths from the mis hap or was he just messing with us putting something  on his helment to attract them?

[thecfarm]

I saw some sort bug that was eating the leaves off red oak trees years ago. BUT it only happened for that one year. I saw it next to the road,I have no idea how many acres.Guessing only about 10?? I drove out of it quick. But it does look odd to see the leaves all gone.

[ga jones]

The trees will live as long as it's not 2 years in a row. Many here are in there second year and won't make it.

[CCC4]

There have been years when there were so many caterpillers in the timber that their droppings sounded like light rain, but it isn't every year...maybe like every 5??

[ga jones]

We're seeing thousands of them dead on the tree trunks. Was told today they released a virus to kill them.

[Ed_K]

Had one here on a chestnut oak today, first one I've seen in a few yrs.

[jwilly3879]

I remember back in the 80's you could hear them munching on the leaves and the caterpillars were so thick on the trunks it was hard climbing without spurs. This was in the Ramapo Mountains, southern NY.

[ga jones]

 

 

[ESFted]

Back in the early 60's I spent two college summers working for the Agricultural Research Service as a plant pest control specialist in upstate New York.  My job was to place paper cups coated on the inside with tanglefoot and baited with a cotton ball that had a few drops of a gypsy moth pheromone on a half mile grid in several counties along the St Lawrence.  I checked them on a recurring basis all summer long.  The first year I caught no moths.  The second year ( I think it was '62) I had the first hit in upstate NY.  Following that, and in a matter of just a few years, they had decimated thousands of acres in the Hudson River Valley.  It's always something.

[timberlinetree]

Hmm? I feed the trout in the brook next to our house. Few years ago all of a sudden they stopped eating the caterpillars. Couple days later I pulled one off a tree and it fell apart. Was that the virus?

Does any body think gypsy moth pheromones could have stayed in Fred or was he just messing around?

[Ron Scott]

Gypsy Moths Back with a Vengeance: Counties Caught Off Guard

MCall.com (June 22) - Gypsy moth caterpillars were so bad this year that droppings from their constant leaf munching left a coat of "green slime" on Jeff Kunkle's driveway. There were times the Slatington resident's car couldn't make it up the driveway because it was so slick with the critters and their waste. And he had to use a leaf blower twice a day to clear a path to the house.

He isn't alone. Many residents of Northeast Pennsylvania have similar stories this year, said Terry Brady, spokesperson for the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resource

The E-Forester

[thecfarm]

Yuck on the slippery driveway.

[logman81]

Their here to, after my apple trees and they were all over the oak poles I hauled yesterday.

[timberlinetree]

And my friends from the mid west thought I was full of it when I told them you could hear them munching away on leaves. I have seen areas that look like fall because all the trees have been chewed up. No one has any input about Fred?

[petefrom bearswamp]

Was at Suffern NY last thursday and friday.
Quite a lot of defoliation along the thruway near there.
Did see one caterpillar here at my place earlier in the summer.

[ga jones]

It sounds like rain when there eating

[logman81]

Got it bad here!