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Every year in early spring the larvae begin a month to six weeks of nonstop feeding.
When the cankerworms get to be about an inch long, they descend into the ground to rest, to pupate, to be dormant.
Mr. Reynolds said the trees have already begun to recover and have “greened” right back up.
Given a few years of defoliation followed by recovery, another “native” — this time a parasite, a type of wasp — is drawn to the area and eats the eggs laid by the moth (which is what the cankerworm becomes while it’s in the ground, resting). The cycle is broken.
Mr Reynolds noted what others in the county have observed this year — cankerworm damage is often localized.
The western sides of the mountains which catch the late afternoon sun seem to be hit harder.
Those tend to be the poor
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