Lymantria monacha?

[Jaakko B Kullberg]

Matti Jantunen <jantsa at sci.fi> wrote:
: If someone can tell me more news from Lymantria monacha's situation today in America, please
: do so.
: (I'am pretty sure that it is a only spiece which people have wanted to exterminate from America).

: Matti :(
:   
Hi there,
are you sure about the latin name. Probably you mean L. dispar which is
one of the worst pests of N.A.? I am not sure, but probably monacha is
not occurring in Nearctic even as an import species?

L.dispar is Lehtinunna in Finnish.

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