What can a homeowner do to be included in the Department’s Cooperative Gypsy Moth Suppression Program?
Since there are certain legal and fiscal requirements for participation in the aerial spray program, the Department can only work with local municipal governments or agencies. However, when a municipality requests an egg mass survey, we send Department inspectors to the municipality to pick up a map and request locations of complaints of gypsy moth damage. The homeowner can play an active role in this process by requesting that your municipal officials ask the Department for a gypsy moth egg mass survey and filing a written complaint about the location of these gypsy moth infestations with your municipality by early September. Follow up this letter with another request in late December to determine if your area was indeed included in a spray block and if your municipality is participating in the cooperative program. If your area contains high populations of the gypsy moth and your municipality either decided not to participate in the voluntary program, or your area did not qualify for
