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Park will spray
for gypsy moths By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON Rappahannock News Special Writer In Shenandoah National Park, the National Park Service will nse a chemical pesticide for gypsy moth control — a first for the agency. According to David Haskell, resource specialist for the park, 100 acres around Mathews Arm camground, an area under heavy attack by the moth’s voracious caterpillars, will be sprayed by air with Dimilin. The chemical agent, a chitin inhibitor, destroys the moth’s larvae by interfering with their skeletal growth, Mr. Haskell explained. “They fall apart when they molt,” he said, adding that the chemical control “doesn’t bother anything else.” “It only affects those critters that eat leaves that have been sprayed with Dimilin and are forming chitin at the same (Continued on Page 10)
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