LATEST CAROL BEACH NEWS
May 22, 2009
NO - We are not in Honolulu and it is not December 7th. But it sure looked like it for awhile early this morning in Carol Beach.
The following is an update from Carol Moresi on the gypsy moth spraying by the DNR.
----Gypsy Moth supression spraying in part of Carol Beach was COMPLETED around 6:15am today, May 22 by a small low flying yellow aircraft with 3 nozzles on each wing, spraying BTK, a bacteria naturally occuring in soil, and not dangerous for people or pets, but not good for gypsy moths to eat. You may have noticed a plane flying earlier than that, higher up.... that was the spotter plane watching the spray plane. They ONLY sprayed THIS year in areas where individuals CALLED Pleasant Prairie LAST year and told them they have a LOT of them (like my neighbors and I did last year)...so if you are inundated with caterpillars in a few weeks, please call and let them know about it. Spraying will not eliminate all moths, but will hopefully keep the numbers down. If you see a lot of caterpillars in a few weeks, like I did last year, perhaps 500-1000 a day at eye level on your oak trees especially, you can kill them by picking them off of the trees at eye level and putting them into a bucket of soapy water (the DNR recommended way), or wearing rubber gloves and squishing them, like I resorted to last year. They squish easily. Otherwise, each female caterpillar turns into a moth and can later lay an egg mass of 500-1000 eggs in each mass that will hatch next year. They eat the leaves off of trees, which if there are too many of them, will stress the tree enough to kill it. If you see a lot of them, you can tie burlap around some trees and they will congregate there under the burlap, which makes them real easy to find and eliminate them. (I bought burlap at JoAnn's Fabrics, last year.) More info at gypsymoth.wi.gov (I was asked to help Kevin Meyers, Park Foreman of Pleasant Prairie and Dan Treloar in determining when they hatched a couple of weeks ago, and today, determining wind and temperature at about 4:45am and 5:45am., which is how I learned more about this stuff.) Carole Moresi
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5/21/2009: The DNR is scheduled to spray for Gypsy Moths on May 22 in the north end of Carol Beach (about 39 acres), which is area "Kenosha #6." (Wind, or other weather may postpone it, but note that there will probably be VERY LOW FLYING PLA NES tomorrow around Carole Beach.) I originally thought it would be early in the morning, but now I think it may be anytime during the day.
(this news brought to CBPOA by neighbor Carole Moresi)
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