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2020 Trapping Results

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2020 Spongy Moth Trapping Results

WSDA has completed deploying and take down of traps all around Washington for 2020. 
 
  Type of Moth
Collection Date  County  City Molecular Diagnostics* Scientific Name Common Name
8/3/2020 King Kenmore Heterozygous, North American Lymantria dispar dispar European spongy moth
8/19/2020 Pierce Anderson Island North American, North American Lymantria dispar dispar European spongy moth
8/24/2020 Pierce Graham North American, North American Lymantria dispar dispar European spongy moth
8/24/2020 Pierce Graham Heterozygous, North American Lymantria dispar dispar European spongy moth
8/25/2020 King Kenmore North American, North American Lymantria dispar dispar European spongy moth
8/27/2020 Pierce Graham Heterozygous, North American Lymantria dispar dispar European spongy moth
8/27/2020 Pierce Graham North American, North American Lymantria dispar dispar European spongy moth
10/6/2020 Pierce Graham North American, North American Lymantria dispar dispar European spongy moth
10/12/2020 Cowlitz Silver Lake Asian, A2 Lymantria dispar asiatica/japonica Asian spongy moth
*DNA is extracted from each specimen and amplified using PCR (polymerase chain reaction). Two genetic markers are used in the assay - the nuclear FS1 and a mitochondrial marker - to determine the type of moth.