Will the Gypsy Moth Infestation 2022 be the same as last year?
The Gypsy Moth Caterpillar starts out as an extremely tiny 1/4″ – 60 mm long thin hard to see Caterpillar. But not for long as they grow quickly eating your broad leaf trees, oak, basswood, maples, larch … even conifers such as the pine and spruce. 
Gypsy Caterpillar Tree infestation will strip a tree of most of it’s leaves.
So what’s the solution?
- Tree Service company to inject the tree at the base early before Gypsy Moth Caterpillar has grown too large to kill.
- Small trees that are too young, hire a Tree Service to spray the tree’s leaves which kills the Gypsy Moth Caterpillar on contact. Good option for young and smaller trees that cannot be injected
- Extreem infestation, hire flyby air spray to do large areas or multiple neighbours
- Wait to Next Year, hope that your trees survive the Gypsy Caterpillar eating frensy
PS The male Gypsy Moth flies around endlessly, not eating, just looking to mate with a female Gypsy Moth.
2022: Moth Pods are laid and ready. If you look at an infected tree’s bark you can see loonie size whitish-grey pods which contain the eggs to be hatched!
…Hopefully this cold winter might reduce the number of Gypsy Moths in 2022.
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