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and vehicles or in other protected places. Long distance spread of the gypsy moth occurs when egg masses are unknowingly transported from infested areas; short distance spread results when the small caterpillars are transported by wind.
Gypsy moth caterpillars eat tree leaves. Under outbreak conditions defoliation can extend over thousands of acres. Caterpillars prefer the foliage of oaks, particularly white oaks, but they eat many other kinds of vegetation when preferred food is exhausted. Even evergreens, shrubs and vines are sometimes eaten. The caterpillars do not prefer to feed on ash, cedar, dogwood, holly, locust, sycamore, yellow poplar, rhododendron, and walnut.
Repeated defoliation kills trees, and during outbreaks in residential areas gypsy moth caterpillars are an extreme nuisance. Trees lose their
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