MALLORCA TODAY - Lack of funds to tackle processionary caterpillars

The processionary caterpillar, which attacks pine trees across Mallorca and which poses a health risk to humans and animals, is liable to be less controlled than previously owing to a sharp reduction in funds available to the local forestry authority. Typically the moth and caterpillar have been tackled by placing traps in forests to capture the moths and then spraying to kill off the caterpillars in the trees.