June 24, 1990

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AGRICULTURE Canada’s Owen Croy affixes to a British Properties tree one of 800 Gypsy Moth traps being set
Vancouver in an attempt to pinpoi::t an infestation of the destructive pest suspected to be located on the North Shore.

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North Shore-wide search for
destructive moth intensifies

AGRICULTURE Canada
has launched a full-scale
North Shore hunt for the
destructive Gypsy Moth.

Owen Croy, spokes
federal deparunent, said a mini-
mum of 800 Gypsy Moth traps
will be set this month in North
and West Vancouver and in arcas
of the Greater Vancouver
Regional District's Capilano wa-
tershed in an attempt to pinpoint
the source of Gypsy Moths origi-

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nally found in West Vancouver's
British Properties in’ November
1988.

The trap total is almost five
times the number used on the
North Shore fast year, when 170
were set in West Vancouver and
the western portion of North
Vancouver.

Croy added that up to 1,400
traps could be set in the North
Shore area depending on the even-
tual scope of the Gypsy Moth

hunt.

Despite an intensive search ef-
fort last year of well over 100
West and North Vancouver pro-
perties that enlisted the help of
North Shore residents, municipal
workers and forestry personnel,
Agriculture Canada investigators
have yet to locate any Gypsy moth
egg masses on the North Shore.

The search this summer will be
for male Gypsy Moths as they
emerge from their cocoons in

mid-July.

Agriculture Canada began set-
ting traps June 20 in an area
bounded roughly by Edgemont
Village to the cast, Cypress Bowl
to the west, the Capilano water-
shed to the north and Keith Road
to the south.

Croy said the current Gypsy
Moth search on the North Shore
is as big, if not bigger, than the
eradication effort taking place in
the Parksville area of Vancouver

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Island, the other West Coast loca-
tion in which the destructive pest
has been found.

“This is a massive assault
against the Gypsy Moth,"" he said.

in addition to the traps being
set by Agriculture Canada, traps
will also be set by Greater Van-
couver Water District personnel in
the watershed area.

Croy said traps will be
monitored weekly.

In October 1989, Agriculture
Canada announced that it had
found four male Gypsy Moths in

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