Spongy Moth invasion: Shenandoah National Park gears up for aerial defense
Shenandoah National Park is preparing to spray for spongy moth caterpillars along sections of Skyline Drive.
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Shenandoah National Park is preparing to spray for spongy moth caterpillars along sections of Skyline Drive.
A helicopter will be dropping an aerial pesticide along sections of Skyline Drive, Skyland and Big Meadows.
Shenandoah National Park (SNP) will conduct an aerial spraying program in May in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) to suppress nonnative spongy moth caterpillars along sections of Skyline
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Spongy moth caterpillar numbers have been growing the last two years in the Shenandoah National Park leading to widespread forest defoliation.