January - March 2015
Gypsy Moth Survey 2014
The multi-agency Missouri Cooperative Gypsy Moth Program conducted its annual survey to detect the presence of gypsy moths (Lymantria dispar) by placing and monitoring over 7,700 traps in 62 counties during 2014.
Delimit areas of intensive trapping were established around five sites where gypsy moths were captured in 2013 (one moth each in Clay, Greene, and Madison counties, and two moths in St. Louis County).
Four male moths were captured statewide this year: one in Camden County and three in St. Louis County (separate locations). All were
confirmed to be European gypsy moths. No moths were captured in delimit areas. No reproducing populations of gypsy moths have yet been detected in Missouri, but the gypsy moth invasion front continues to advance from northeastern Iowa and Illinois.