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Article: STATE OF WASHINGTON TO 'MASS TRAP' CROWN HILL NEIGHBORHOOD OF SEATTLE FOR GYPSY MOTH
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- May 26, 2006
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The Washington state Department of Agriculture issued the following news release:
The Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) today announced a "mass trapping" project for the Crown Hill neighborhood of Seattle in an effort to control the very destructive gypsy moth. Although eight moths were caught in Crown Hill last summer - the largest number from any single site in Washington - state entomologists have not determined that a reproducing population is present in Crown Hill.
"We strongly suspect a reproducing population may be present in Crown Hill," explained Chad Phillips, WSDA gypsy moth eradication coordinator. "We just don't have the evidence at this time."
Up to a thousand ...