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Dry weather in the Northeast has triggered an explosion in the populations of gypsy moth caterpillars, which are voracious eaters of forest canopies.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using data from the Land Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE). Caption by Adam Voiland, with information from Paul Ricard (Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management), Joseph Spruce (NASA Stennis Space Center), and Phil Townsend (University of Wisconsin). Photo courtesy of Paul Ricard.

Published July 15, 2016
Data acquired May 25 - June 26, 2016

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Terra > MODIS