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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock New« Staff Writer
Gypsy moths can wreck political as well as ecological havoc.
As the voracious insects work their way south, communities in their path struggle with how to combat the foliage destruction, often fighting pitched battles not only against the moths but with citizens either adamantly opposed or adamantly in favor of different control programs.
Rappahannock’s Gypsy Moth Committee has watched those fights and in an effort to avoid a re-enactment here, proposed last week to decide HOW to combat the insects before the egg-laying females arrive in the county in full force. “People will say, ‘I don’t want my property sprayed,’ and when those critters get here, the very same people are going to be jumping up and down, demanding that the county spray - and spray right now!” said Lyt Wood, forestry consultant and a member of the committee that met with Supervisor Chairman Hubert Gilkey, administrator John McCarthy and Thomas Finn fron the Virginia Department of Agriculture last Thursday.
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