May 16, 2002 Crown Hill in Seattle, WA

Anastasia Retelas awaits the WSDA

This time extra police were on hand at Anastasia's garden to enforce the WSDA spraying warrant.

"The vegetables are harboring gypsy moths,"says WSDA as they spray Foray 48B on Anatasia's organically grown greens. Yet the spray applicators missed the top third of the tallest trees in the area. The WSDA, in the 2000 spraying, said that "moth caterpillars will climb to the top of the trees to eat the new growth there."

Applicators missed most off the high tree foliage in the spraying area. The hand spraying units had a 35 ft. range and could never reach the high branches of over 40 trees in the area. This untreated foliage could provide an ideal feeding ground for the moth caterpillars. Several observers pointed this error out to the WSDA during the spraying, but there were no attempts to correct the problem. Area residents are angry: