if control measures are necessary. 



One survey carried on each year in conjunction with our nursery 

 inspection program is for the Gypsy Moth. During August the summer 

 nursery inspectors check both the growing stock and the land surround- 

 ing nurseries for the presence of the Gypsy Moth egg masses. 



If the egg masses are found they are treated with cresote to 

 prevent hatching. If the situation is severe, it is brought to the 

 ovTier's attention and asked that it be cleaned up before offering 

 the stock for sale. 



Another control program actively carried on by this division 

 is on the European Chafer, an insect first found in this state 

 in 1966. 



Since that time, surveys trapping, and subsequent soil treating 

 have kept this pest of turf confined to within Route 126, except 

 for a few isolated sited near 128 and those in Charlton and Ludlow. — 

 Up to the end of 1971, 55,198 acres in the metropolitan Boston were 

 found to be infested with the European Cha-^er with 2,307 acres being 

 treated at sites of heavy traffic flow and border infestations. 



Once a determination has been made that the chafer is present 

 in an isolated area that lends itself to soil treating, permissions 

 are obtained from the property owners, then ground or aerial equip- 

 ment is used to apply the proper insecticide to the soil and turf 

 areas. 



V/hile the U.S.D.A. has decided to drop the federal quarantine 

 on the chafer as of June 30th., 1972, we expect to continue to 

 carry on a control program in order to keep the area outside of 



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