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Originally Posted by noreast
I think it was about 35 yrs ago. I remember riding my bike, late 70's I believe, You could run over 30 to 50 per minute. That was when no one heard of them, It was the big news story of the summer, Impending disaster. It was disgusting.
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Yes I remember it. I was living in RI. The entire forest was denuded by the gypsy moth caterpillars. Armegeddon it was! Turns out once they ate all the leaves off every darn tree--it was surreal-- they starved off and that was the end of it.
"Nature finds a way" (Prof. Ian Malcolm)