Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Cincinatus' Wife

I remember in the early 80's how the gypsy moth caterpillars almost completely devoured all the trees in western mass. I was racing in Upstate New York, and every week on our ride out on the Mass Pike, we could clearly see how much they had eaten. By the middle of August, the trees were almost as bare as in winter


13 posted on 06/21/2005 4:39:17 AM PDT by Fierce Allegiance (This is not your granddaddy's America)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: Fierce Allegiance

They wiped out eastern Mass and southern New Hampshire, too.


15 posted on 06/21/2005 4:41:45 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies ]

To: Fierce Allegiance

I guess Mass. faired better in the 90s when Bill and Hillary ruled the country.


22 posted on 06/21/2005 5:08:21 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies ]

To: Fierce Allegiance

In 1997 they hit Ohio pretty hard. Along the Ohio Turnpike most of the oaks were bare in early July...most re-foliated by fall but it seemed like it took a good 2-3 growing seasons for them to return to normal.


49 posted on 06/21/2005 6:34:16 AM PDT by RockinRight (Conservatism is common sense, liberalism is just senseless.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson