Category: Oak Tree

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?

1. Tree Service company to inject the tree at the base early before Gypsy Moth Caterpillar has grown too large to kill.
2. 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
3. Extreem infestation, hire flyby air spray to do large areas or multiple neighbours
4. 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.