Several sites in northeastern Illinois including Waterfall Glen, Des Plaines Riverway, Hidden Lake and Wood Ridge forest preserves will be sprayed with fake pheromones to confuse spongy moth males and disrupt mating.
The Illinois Department of Agriculture is set to conduct aerial treatments on June 27 and 28 at select DuPage County Forest Preserve locations to combat nonnative Lymantria dispar moths, formerly known as gypsy moths but now called spongy moths.
Several sites in northeastern Illinois including Waterfall Glen, Des Plaines Riverway, Hidden Lake and Wood Ridge forest preserves will be sprayed with fake pheromones to confuse spongy moth males and disrupt mating.