gypsy moths

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — Washington officials are setting out 34,000 traps around the state to capture gypsy moths to measure the effectiveness of spraying treatments. Officials with the Washington State Department of Agriculture tell The Columbian that 42 of the insects were found in the state last summer...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — State agricultural officials have finished spraying parts of Western Washington to kill leaf-eating gypsy moths. Now, they plan to set out thousands of traps this summer to see whether those treatments worked. The Department of Agriculture on Tuesday completed the last of 21 treatments that began about two weeks ago...

  OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A draft environmental review says a plan to spray 10,500 acres to kill leaf-eating gypsy moths in Western Washington would pose minimal risk to people or other organisms. The Washington Department of Agriculture is planning to spray a biological insecticide over Kent, Tacoma, Vancouver, Lacey, Gig Harbor and Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood this spring to kill Asian and