Eureka Reporter | 1906-05-18 | Page 4 | Gypsy Moth National Menace

GYPSY MOTH NATIONAL MENACE F one escaped from an og st s laboratory after snelling over a million dol lars in trying to exterminate the gyp y moth the state of massachusetts has given up the struggle and the in act which Is considered by some to be worse than the san jose scale Is now free to spread over the whole country says country life in amer ica A dangerous colony already ex ests in rhone island the caterpillars eat almost anything green and they worl from the time the leaves come out about the 1st of september A list has been made of kids ol 01 punts they will eat they have been especially destruct ive to the grand old elms tor which isea england is famous and they are also fond of our native oal s and wil lows and all finds of fruit ever greens are stripped and killed in a s agle year the caterpillars some imes crawl all over a house and many ho aises have been abandoned b ohp d tenants it Is alve years since the legislature refused to give any moie money and it would now cost tar to exterminate the gyp sy moth than massachusetts has pent so far nevertheless the leading en debare that the inseal cin be exterminated efforts are be ing made to get the new anglano states to operate if they fall tc da so it will be time for the national government to take a hand the moth is a european in act which escaped from an og st s laboratory and did not attract much attention for about twenty ears