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By SEAN ADAMS Arundel Newspapers, Richmond Bureau
Delegates representing Fauquier, Clarke and Rappahannock counties have co-sponsored a House joint resolution that asks the U. S. Department of Agriculture to take action to minimize the spread of the gypsy moth in Virginia.
The resolution, cosponsored by Dels. Raymond R. “Andy” Guest Jr. (RWarren) and George P. Beard Jr. (R-Culpeper), requests the department to regulate the distribution of Christmas trees “and other potentially hazardous articles” that may bring the gypsy moth into Virginia.
State officials discovered last year that gypsy moths, which have defoliated vast amounts of forest land in the northeastern United States, were carried into Virginia on Christmas trees that were grown in other states.
Since it was brought into Massachusetts in 1869, the moth has spread south into Maryland and West Virginia and is expected to begin taking hold in Northern Virginia this year, said Donald Kludy, an official in the pest control section of the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
"We’ve just begun to see it begin this year,” Mr. Kludy said of the natural spread of the moth, “so the process has already begun.”
Mr. Kludy said the department has found infestations in five locations in Fairfax County, and in areas north of Leesburg, near
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