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Munchers bugging area oaks
May 4, 2011 by Lee Shearer
By Lee Shearer – lee.shearer@onlineathens.com Published Wednesday, May 04, 2011 Lots of very hungry caterpillars are munching on Athens oak trees, and University of Georgia researchers want to know why. The dark gray and brown caterpillar is not some new invasive species from across the globe, but a native known to range from Ontario down to Georgia and as far west as Arizona. Entomologists in Athens and other ea...
Tagged: blackdotted brown moth, cissusa spadix, oak caterpillars