Incredible! Greek village filled maggots…

The caterpillars are threatening to turn it into a… skull place of the area…
the Sq.K. Αφράτου of the municipality of Agrinio in the last few days. The charge in the oaks is visible to the naked eye and has already extended to other species of oak with disastrous consequences.
The correspondent of the agriniopress.gr-Agrinio
Already the yards of the houses in the area have been occupied by the green worms, which κορφολογούν plants and flowers, while the problem manifested itself about a mile outside the village.
According to the chairman of Sq.K. Αφράτου mr. Karvelas, it is a sight both sad and dangerous, since as he says, “the caterpillars have left nothing”: “the courtyards of the houses don’t look even! Below there are only caterpillars, hundreds of thousands, in the trees, on the walls of the houses, an intolerable situation”.
The president of the village do everything from the hand while it has already informed the forest service, the competent deputy Mayor while going to give you and sample of the bugs for study at the Benaki Phytopathological Institute : “all these years, I’ve never seen anything like that. Are countless, we have a serious problem,” says mr Geldof.
As a matter of fact comment, such is the situation that the spray is not enough, unless done by air. “Let’s spray at least around the courtyards of the houses. We can’t go in our homes. Come into our house, on our clothes, on footwear, we can’t do anything,” he says indignant.
The agriniopress.gr contacted the Forestry department of Agrinio and the Δασάρχη mrs. Alexandra Citizen, which appears reassuring, while clear at first that the sprays from the air have been banned in the last few years.
As it explains the director of forest service, the problem has been presented strongly in the past in villages in the aetolia-Acarnania and the municipality of Agrinio. This time, the phenomenon is intense in many areas of the Greek province.
“Probably this is the so-called caterpillar oak. We need to reassure the citizens. The phenomenon is currently on the rise, having started from April and in a couple of weeks will be reduced. The plants are expected, as has been proven by similar cases in the past, to return after about two months. From the Benaki Institute informed us that spraying is not done in any area and just expected to limit the problem and this will be done when the caterpillars go through to the next stage of development, become so butterflies,” says the same.
According to ms. Citizen , spray ground could possibly be done, but not as much as the phenomenon is on the rise, but before that, something that is difficult to predict. For this reason, moreover, and this concern has never been, and in no other region of Greece, in accordance with the information of the same by the Benaki Phytopathological.
The director of forest service recommends that temper and patience to the residents of the Αφράτου and other areas potentially affected by the phenomenon.