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Sudetenland Tales
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‘This imminent danger of infestation seriously endangers the recreational marijuana and horticultural industries of the state of Washington and seriously threatens the economic well-being and quality of life of state residents,’ Inslee said in the emergency proclamation.
The Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) will begin its treatment to eradicate spongy moths in Thurston County on Friday, taking extreme care not to spread the required poisons in the afternoons, when most people would be away and out at work. Rather, the process would be effected at night, while they slept.
Karla Salp, communications consultant for the WSDA, said; ‘These moths can destroy an entire tree branch. An entire branch! This is no Covid-19 type scam, this is the real thing. The spongy moth caterpillars feed on over three hundred types of trees, plants and shrubs.’
Salp said a tree can withstand spongy moths feeding for ten years maximum, but it will eventually die if the population is allowed to be unchecked. When trees die, Salp said that can lead to damaging ‘downstream effects’ to species in the ecosystem because of the lack of tree canopy.