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presence of this pest. Recent research at UMass Amherst suggests that winter moth may have a strong potential to move southward from Massachusetts and then westward in the coming years to potentially become a regional and potentially a national problem. Winter moth eggs have been sitting on the trunks and branches of host trees since late November into December of 2011. The timing of egghatch in the spring is influenced by the number of days below freezing throughout the winter months and, despite the warmer -than-normal daytime temperatures
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the eggs on the shadier (northern exposure) side of the same tree here in Massachusetts. This past winter has been atypically warmer than the norm for Massachusetts but most nights have been below freezing (32° F) leading researchers to believe that the number of ‘winter frost days’ has been approximately the same as in previous years in Massachusetts. However, Massachusetts did not experience many deeply cold days this past winter and the overall effect that this may have on winter moth eggs is not yet known. The majority of daytime temperatures during February were in the 40s with a few in the 50s (degrees Fahrenheit). The big question now is ‘What has this done to the timing of winter moth egg-hatch for the upcoming growing season?’ As of March 9, in Plymouth County, there
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during much of this past winter, it is believed that we had the normal amount of cold nights this year. Then in the late winter / early spring, the eggs require a relatively small number of warm days for them to hatch. In Massachusetts, winter moth eggs have generally begun hatching approximately in mid-April during many of the past 10 years, which has been around April 15 for most of those years. However, two years ago, Massachusetts experienced exceptionally warm weather starting in mid-March and WM egg hatch began on the last day of March on Cape Cod and then on April 1 in Plymouth County. For such earlyseason egg hatch, only a few atypically warm days are necessary for earlierthan-normal egg hatch to occur. It has also been observed in Massachusetts that winter moth eggs on the sunnier sides of trees (generally the south side) may hatch as much as one week before
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