Gypsy moths: unwelcome guests with big appetites - using natural controls to prevent annual defoliation
Flower & Garden Magazine, August-Sept, 1994
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Gypsy Moths
Damage: This pest eats holes in leaves until the entire leaf is consumed and the plant is defoliated. One caterpillar can eat all the leaves in a 2-square-yard area.
Gypsy moth.
When their numbers are sufficient, gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar) caterpillars can be some of the most destructive tree pests in North America.
GYPSY MOTH - A caterpillar about 1 1/2 inches long that came from Europe. these larvae do great damage by chewing and sometimes defoliating the entire tree.
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Hornbeams are susceptible to damage by gypsy moth larvae, which eat the leaves in midsummer. However, not every caterpillar is a pest. American hornbeams are important food for the larvae of tiger swallowtail and other butterflies.
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Many people don't realize that Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis), promoted as a safe and natural insecticide, kills all moth and butterfly larvae"not just targeted species, such as the gypsy moth.
A neem-based pesticide, Margosan-O, has been shown to control gypsy moths, leaf miners, sweet potato whiteflies, western flower thrips, loopers, caterpillars and mealybugs.
For example, the IPM class focused closely on the gypsy moth because Michigan has a significant gypsy-moth infestation. A program in Tennessee, on the other hand, stresses controlling Japanese beetles.
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Transporting raw wood is an important means of introduction of new and damaging pests as noted with Thousand Cankers Disease. The two largest insect pest risks to Colorado's forests are emerald ash borer (EAB) and gypsy moth.
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