Residents of nine western Wisconsin counties can expect to hear and see lowflying planes in the early morning beginning in late June. The planes are part of aerial gypsy moth treatments planned at 21 sites in Crawford, Douglas, Dunn, Grant, Iowa, La Crosse, Rusk, Trempealeau and Vernon Counties.
Treatments will end in mid-July in northwestern Wisconsin.
Yellow planes contracted by the U.S. Forest Service in a joint project with the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture will be applying an organic, biodegradable mating disruptor. Unlike the spring treatments that targeted gypsy moth caterpillars, the mating disruptor targets adult male moths.
Treatment dates and times are weather dependent.
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