have thought he was in a fly store. |
| Bohnet Photography, Seattle WA |
| All photos copyright © Dwight Bohnet |
| WSDA Gypsy Moth Detection Program 2009 - |
| Whatcom County Traps 901-1001 |
| Please take me BACK a step |
| You have reached the end of Trapline Road. |
| I want to go HOME. |
| Trap 217 |
| The frog was okay. He must |
| July 20, 2009 Trap 945 installed. Installation phase is finished. |
| On August 12 a Gypsy Moth is caught in Trap 403. The next day more traps are placed in a 4 square mile area around the catch site. Those traps, numbered 946-1001, are what follow. |
| Traps 975-1001 were installed by Ron who came up from Skagit County to help. His traps were renumbered to fit into Whatcom County's sequence. |
Global Positioning System (GPS). A GPS waypoint is created for each trap. A handheld GPS unit provides a map to the location of each trap. |
| How, you might ask, does one remember where 1001 insect traps are located? -------------------> GPS ! |
| The last trap in Whatcom County was removed on September 22. On September 24 I turned in my Jeep, my hammer (for hanging the traps), my GPS (for finding them again) and I called it a season. The only gypsy moth I found was the one in Trap 403 on August 12. 1001 Traps, 1 Gypsy Moth. That's what I call a successful season. |
| "You may have won the battle, Trapper, but the war is not over." |