
Gypsy moths are stripping trees bare in the Northeast. Here's why the outbreak is so bad
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European gypsy moth caterpillars eat the foliage of hundreds of trees. The outbreak is "devastating" in the Northeast.
After the coronavirus pandemic, he'd hoped to use the harvest to renew the relationships that have been difficult to maintain over the past year. But that's impossible since gypsy moth caterpillars wiped his trees and bushes clean this year. Instead of up to 90 pounds of apples and 18 quarts of berries, Boltz-Robinson says all he has bare branches.
Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing waters swept away children and counselors, a review by The Associated Press found.

Two of the most senior figures in the US government — Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the White House chief of staff — have been impersonated in recent weeks using artificial intelligence — a tactic that harnesses a rapidly developing technology that cybersecurity experts say is becoming the “new normal” in terms of cheap and easy scams targeting senior US officials.