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Article: Spraying today for moths.(Agriculture)(A helicopter was to drop a mist of bacteria on a south Eugene infestation)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- April 27, 2004
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Byline: Diane Dietz The Register-Guard
A super-sized appetite allowed the gypsy moth to chomp from forest to forest halfway across the United States.
Relentless eating placed the bug - Lymantria dispar - on the Oregon Department of Agriculture's most-wanted list.
And the moth's weakness for food will prove to be its downfall in the Crest Drive neighborhood over the next three days.
At sunrise today a helicopter hired by the state was scheduled to mist the neighborhood with 92 gallons of Btk, a bacterial insecticide used in urban areas for three decades with little ill effect on humans.
State officials have been watching a ...