# Where to find gypsy moth infestation predictions?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 18, 2009, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-find-gypsy-moth-infestation-predictions/496887 "2009-05-18T19:16:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-find-gypsy-moth-infestation-predictions/496887/1 "2009-05-18T19:16:09Z")

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I seem to be seeing a _lot_ of gypsy moth caterpillars this season. I don’t know if it’s just me, where I happen to be looking, or if we’re in for a bad year — but I can’t find maps or predictions on the net. I’m in New York/Hudson Valley if it makes a difference.

Anyone with a source? A quaint folk predictor? A similar hatred for the nasty things?

Rhythm

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**Author:** ![AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-find-gypsy-moth-infestation-predictions/496887/2 "2009-05-19T03:49:58Z")

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dunno…but if you have time, take a stick and a small bucket, destroy the nests, and then dump the catapillers in the nearest fishing hole/ocean. I hate them too…Back when I used to be stranded on a community college campus, that had a man made lake, I’d destroy the gypsy moths…the fish seemed to really like the gypsy moths.

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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-to-find-gypsy-moth-infestation-predictions/496887/3 "2009-05-19T04:04:10Z")

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[Extension Service](http://www.csrees.usda.gov/Extension/) typically keeps track of such things.

This Cornell page [Cornell Cooperative Extension | Serving communities in New York state and NYC](http://www.cce.cornell.edu/editor/show/In_Your_Community)  
looks to show ext offices for each county in NY.