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inow tnat tne traps nave neen placed, Mrs. Dobrovir’s job is to visit them periodically to check on the number of male moths that have been captured. On a recent visit to five of the sites, she started by traveling south on Route 231 from her home near Sperryville.
As she stopped her truck at the beginning of a driveway leading to her first site, she said that the job description hadn’t included the need for access to a four-wheel drive vehicle, but she had found it necessary. After adjusting the hubs on the front wheels of the truck and starting off again, she commented, “I’ve gotten much better at using four-wheel drive since taking this job.”
At the end of the driveway the first trap was located on one of a clump of black walnuts in the yard of a nearby house. Only a few leaves clung to the branches of these trees. The literature she was given indicated that gypsy moths aren’t attracted to walnuts, she said, but the caterpillars had thoroughly worked over these trees.
Four children tumbled out of the house to help her check the trap. She took out a ruler and measured the depth of the pile of male moths in the bottom of the trap, three centimeters, a little more than one inch.
She showed the children the moths collected in “their” trap. “Ugh," they agreed. One child held a plastic bag open while she dumped the moths into it. Some of the moths were clumped together and stuck in the bottom of the trap. She poked the ruler around in the trap, loosening them, and dumped them in too. “I’ll see you again in about two
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