Identifier: annualreport1909mass (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Massachusetts. Superintendent for supressing the gypsy and brown-tail moths
Subjects: Gypsy moth Browntail moth
Publisher: Boston
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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st few years has materiallyreduced the cost of keeping the gypsy moths under control. The methods followed have been the same as in previous years,namely: painting the egg clusters of the gypsy moths with a mixture ofcreosote and fuel oil; cutting off and burning the nests of the brown-tail moths; banding the trees with tanglefoot early in the spring, toprevent the caterpillars from ascending the trees; spraying with arse-nate of lead all trees which were found to be infested with moths; andbanding with burlap the trees in places where moths were known orsuspected to be present, and destroying the full-grown caterpillars whichcollected under the burlap. Trees infested with elm beetles were sprayedwith arsenate of lead, and the trees were scraped from the ground to aheight of 8 or 10 feet. The numbers of the gypsy moths have decreased, but the brown-tailmoths ami the elm beetles have increased in large numbers, as comparedwith the previous year. Gypsy moths have, however, been found in
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WOODLAND STRIPPED BY GYPSY MOTH CATERPILLARSBROOKLINE, JULY, 1908. 1909.) PUBLIC DOCUMENT--No. 73. 41 Framingham at points farther west than before. No gypsy moths haveas yet been discovered on the water works property around the Wachu-sett reservoir, but the number of brown-tail moths has increased in thevicinity of the Wachusett dam, and a few have been destroyed in WestBoylston at the upper end of the reservoir. The young pine trees on lands around the Wachusett and Sudburyreservoirs, of which about 1,000,000 have been planted during the pastsix years, were in the middle of the summer found to be infested withthe pine tree weevil, which cuts off the young shoot, generally theleader at the top of the tree. The weevils were destroyed by cuttingoff and burning the affected shoots. The work of cutting underbrush and undesirable trees which affordlodging places for the moths has been continued during the year. The work of protecting the trees has been, as in previous years,carried on un

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