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Hotel Booking Madlyn Male saw many of the trees on Upper Oak Lane grow from saplings during her 54 years of living on the street. Now a number of those grand old oak trees, including one that shaded her screened-in porch, are dead -- victims of a gypsy moth caterpillar invasion that slammed a section of Holland Township two years ago.

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Travel Agency In the spring of 2000, Upper Oak Lane and the area around it looked otherworldly, Jake Fisher said.

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Cheap Hotel Picking up leaves on his lawn Thursday, Fisher said he thinks the neighborhood has recovered nicely, with a majority of its trees intact. Although he lost a pine tree and neighbors lost larger oaks, aerial spraying by the state prevented the caterpillars' return in 2001.

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Flight Booking Most of the towering oaks that line the street were stripped of their leaves by a swarm of gypsy moth caterpillars, a pest that has plagued the state since the 1960s, John Kegg, chief of the bureau of plant pest and disease control for the New Jersey Department of Agriculture, said.

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Travel Agent New Jersey is in the middle of its fourth major infestation by the invasive insects, he said.

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Hotel Chicago Since 1999, the number of acres devastated by gypsy moths has grown from 1,400 acres to more than 141,000 acres, and state officials won't know whether this cycle is coming to an end for several weeks, according to Kegg.

Online Booking Gypsy moths were introduced to the United States in the 1860s, when a colony of their larvae, gypsy moth caterpillars, escaped from a naturalist in Massachusetts. The naturalist was trying to create a hybrid silk worm that could withstand the United States' harsh climate in order to start an American silk industry.

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Hotel Reservation The moths remained in the New England states until the 1960s, when they were first discovered in New Jersey, Kegg said.

London Hotel Booking Gypsy moth caterpillars typically feed on oaks, but will make a meal of the foliage of other hardwood trees and even some evergreens, Kegg said.

Discount Travel In Holland Township, where the caterpillars defoliated about 40 acres in 2000, a number of oak trees that had already been stressed by dry weather were killed.

Orlando Hotel "Normally a healthy, vigorous oak can withstand one or two defoliations," Kegg said.

Booking Agency To prevent the pests from further ravishing the state's forests, the New Jersey Department of Agriculture has developed a gypsy moth control program.

International Travel Medical "The toughest thing in our project is that we only have a narrow window," Kegg said.

New York Hotel When residents report an infestation, it is too late for the state to spray. The state sprays a bacteria that is harmless to humans and other animals but fatal to insect larvae such as the gypsy moth caterpillar.

Online Travel Booking The spray must be applied after leaves have sprouted but before the caterpillars grow to larger than half an inch.

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Miami Hotel This year, the Department of Agriculture used aircraft to spray patches of forest in Greenwich and Blairstown townships, although infestations have been most severe in the northeastern part of the state.

Air Deccan Booking While municipalities are required to notify residents of aerial spraying by mail and in newspaper advertisements, the low-flying aircraft catch some off guard.

Las Vegas Nevada Travel "They are at treetop levels and people do get alarmed," Kegg said.

Las Vegas Nv Hotel A natural foe of the gypsy moth is a fungus that was introduced to Massachusetts in the 1920s. Although the fungus was never introduced into the environment in New Jersey, it migrated here by 1989, Kegg said.

Hotel Florence Booking Online The Japanese fungus helps control the gypsy moth population, but during periods of dry weather the fungus isn't present and the gypsy moth population explodes.

Orlando Travel Kegg said residents can recognize when they have a gypsy moth infestation and can prevent serious damage.

Hilton Hotel The caterpillars are brown, with rows of blue and red dots on their sides.

Booking Delta Com "They're called gypsy moths because the caterpillars are very active. They'll walk all over everything," Kegg said.

Travel Insurance Online During an infestation, tree leaves become ragged and allow more sunlight to pass through. The caterpillars' droppings also coat everything and can sound like a soft rainfall as they steadily hit the ground, Kegg said.

London Hotel Once an infestation gets to that point, it's too late to spray from the air, but tree experts can use chemical sprays to limit damage, Kegg said.

Online Hotel Booking "There are things people can see before they have a problem," he said.

Travel Insurance By Peter Hall
The Express-Times - 6/11/2002

Topic: Pesticides

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