Planned aerial sprays for Thursday and Friday over the skies of Cranbrook are being delayed, once again.
Our changing weather is not allowing for a proper application.
New tentative dates are Sunday and Monday.
The target: the spongy moth caterpillar is an invasive and damaging insect.
Tim Ebata is the province’s acting Forest Entomologist…
Originally from Europe, they morph into the spongy moth.
Already destroying large sections of forest of Eastern Canada and the US, the worry is they’ll establish themselves in our neck-of-the-woods, as well.
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