Wisconsin Department of Agriculture to Start Spraying for Gypsy Moths in Several Counties
Friday, June 12th, 2020 -- 8:48 AM
(Wisconsin Ag Connection) -Starting in late June the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture will begin another round of aerial treatments to control gypsy moths in 15 counties.Phase-two will target adult male moths after the first treatment was meant for gypsy moth caterpillars. The agency says residents in the following counties can expect loud, low-flying, yellow planes as early as 7 a.m. through mid-July: Bayfield, Buffalo, Burnett, Chippewa, Crawford, Douglas, Dunn, Grant, Green, Iowa, Lafayette, Polk, Rusk, Trempealeau, and Washburn. Efforts in these counties will focus on where gypsy moth populations are low or beginning to build, to slow them from spreading further west.
Planes contracted by the U.S. Forest Service in a joint project with DATCP will apply an organic, biodegradable mating disruptor to 31 sites in the counties in the western third of the state. DATCP will start in southwestern Wisconsin and end in the northwestern part of the state in mid-July.
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