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The state confirmed new discoveries last year, while also finding some foreign pests that had fully assimilated in the state were actually way down from previous years.
Conservationists are urging people to be on the lookout for an extremely invasive vine that’s harming the monarch butterfly population and the general ecosystem.
Local counties last year suffered prolific infestation of local trees by the voracious spongy moth caterpillar, formerly known as the “gypsy moth” caterpillar.
Spongy moth, formerly gypsy moth, can be an annoying pest in residential, urban and rural areas as well as forests.
Two diseases that affect spongy moth, formerly gypsy moth, caterpillars are the most important factors causing outbreaks to collapse. One disease is a nucleopolyhedrosis virus (NPV) and the other is a fungus called Entomophaga maimaiga.