Evidence of criticality in North American gypsy moth invasion found
Monday, January 10, 2011 - 11:33
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The European gypsy moth, introduced to North America in 1869 near Boston, Mass., has steadily spread from there, devastating forests from eastern Canada to Wisconsin to North Carolina and thwarting all attempts at control. In a paper just published in the journal Ecology Letters, ecologists at the University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology and other researchers studying invasive insects report that the success of new gypsy moth populations is partly dependent upon the size of the patch they occupyinformation that could eventually help control the spread of the moths and other invasive pests.