Spring often brings defoliating insects to the forests of Louisiana. In this image from early May 2010, defoliations from forest tent caterpillars and baldcypress leafrollers create an erupting "measles-like" pattern. Note the subtle differences in severity outward from the centers of several of the blotches. The insets show the baldcypress leafroller (left: photo by Gerald Lenhard, LSU: bugwood.com 0014219) and the forest tent caterpillar (right; photo by Stephen Katovich, USFS; bugwood.com 1398248).
Follow this defoliation event as it emerges and ends here:
http://forwarn.forestthreats.org/fcav/?theme=MODIS_Forest_Change_Product...
Disturbance Type:
Insects
