by Kate Shunney
Forestry and ag officials earlier this year warned of more severe impacts from a second year of spongy moth infestation in Morgan County and their predictions have come true.
Local residents and property owners are now seeing hardwood trees stripped of their leaves as spongy moth caterpillars eat their way through oaks, hickories and just about any other hardwoods they come by.
Caterpillars have attached to houses and tree trunks by the…
