This site is designed to educate about the overuse and misuse of pesticides primarily for gypsy moth. If you are new to the site, read our introduction page here to get some quick information and get oriented.

Washington Tree Service, under state supervision, sprays Crown Hill
organic garden as media looks on.

See our HEADLINERS for hot topics.

Read our Blog (over 5 years worth!) for current and historical information.

Click here to get a shopper's guide to pesticides in produce. Find out which fruits and vegetables have the most and the least pesticide residues. Take the wallet-sized guide with you to the store.

GO HERE to find out what you can do about Foray 48B spraying, and how to protect your family.

No spraying in Washington scheduled for 2011. Some "infestations" have died out naturally or were trapped out of existence.

Get Educated! Watch these short videos:

• Excellent documentary news video about a scientist's assertions that Foray 48B has not been tested enough to be declared safe.
• Dr. Ann M. Haiden speaks on dangers of "inert" chemicals in Foray 48B aerial spraying in California.
• Spraying with Dipel in the Ojai Valley in California (Dipel is another Btk brand like Foray 48B)
• Helicopter spraying in Eugene, Oregon in 2009.This is what it looks like.
  

• New research is emerging showing that the toxin produced by the Bt organism (the active ingredient in sprays such as Foray 48B) do not completely break down in the human gut, as industry has always claimed.
  
• Richmond, BC, Canada is in the sights of the Ministry of Forests and Range. An 806 hectare section in the center of Richmond will be aerially sprayed with Foray 48B. See our blog here.
  
• Apple Moth invades California! Will the response be as devastating as in New Zealand? California will primarily use mating disruption biochemical spray (with an unknown long-term safety record), not Foray 48B. But other pesticides will also be used to spray almost 700 square miles (including most of San Francisco, Monterey, Santa Cruz, and other cities) in mid-August 2008 (As of early 2011, San Francisco has avoided spraying by use of concerted legal and public protests). Agricultural agencies, as usual, are thinking more about protecting crops than people, and politicians are sidestepping the issue. Go to CASS to find out the latest.
• New Zealand government report states Foray 48B spraying not proven safe, and exposure may harm people in spray zone.
  
• The People's Inquiry into Foray 48B Spraying in New Zealand released; reports on the effects of aerial spraying are sobering.
  
• Canadians try Dipel instead of Foray 48B with some misconception it is "safer."
  
• Report from NZ Health Ministry Expresses Caution Over Btk Use Summary here.
• USDA says mating disruption OK, so why can't we use it here?
• How could we say Bt is unsafe? Get some quick facts.
• Want to know what's really in Foray 48B or Foray 48XG? Look here!
• See the latest Foray 48B labels...
• Foray 48XG? What's this?
• Can Bt survive in humans? Check it out!
• WEST NILE VIRUS IS COMING. But why should you care? See this letter in High Country News.And then, read all about it.
  
• A Famous Entomologist Says Don't Spray!
  
• Rick Poulin on Legal Issues
  
  

MAJOR WASHINGTON GYPSY MOTH CATCHES for 2010

Renton (Near Seward Park) 1
Marysville (Snohomish Co.)  2
Belfair (Mason Co.)         2  Sunset Beach. In danger of spraying in 2012
Puyallup                      7  Near SR 512 and 94th Ave. E.
Fife                          1
Ft. Lewis                    0  Died out naturally, or all were trapped.
Midland (Pierce Co.)         0  Died out naturally, or all were trapped.
Kent                          0

No Asian GM catches, and no spraying scheduled for 2011

MAJOR WASHINGTON GYPSY MOTH CATCHES for 2009

Midland (Pierce Co.)        7
Sunset Beach (Mason Co.)  5
Everett (Snohomish Co.)    2
Ft. Lewis (Pierce Co.)      0
Kent                         0

No Asian GM catches, and no spraying scheduled for 2010

MAJOR WASHINGTON GYPSY MOTH CATCHES for 2008

Ft. Lewis (Pierce Co.)    3
Wauna                     0
Kent                       2
                      No Asian GM catches, and no spraying scheduled for 2009  

MAJOR WASHINGTON GYPSY MOTH CATCHES for 2007

Wauna (Tacoma)          9    See Map...
Kent                       5  
Birch Bay (Whatcom)     3
Maple Leaf (Seattle)     1    See Map...
Marysville                 1
Sequim                     1
Totem Lake                1
Minterwood (Pierce)       1

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