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Some areas of the UK have recently been invaded poisonous insects that can cause not only the strongest allergies, but also a skin rash with ulcers, serious eye damage, nasopharynx, attacks of deep asthma, fever and other painful symptoms, after which a person needs urgent medical help.
According to the Daily Star Publishing House, Royal Forest society even published on the most popular social networks Internet appeal to the British, reporting poisonous caterpillars, that appeared in many city parks and oak forests United Kingdom. The report, in particular, states that seemingly harmless moths seem to be to blame. However these butterflies produce many caterpillars, each of which has more sixty thousand poisonous hairs in contact with human skin leads to the above diseases.
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Misty Albion wildlife experts specify that moth nests can reach the size of a soccer ball and to the same stretch in length, so in case of detection such a nest must be immediately reported to the secret service or simply call the emergency number.
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According to the head of the British Forest Society, from the invasion toxic insects today suffered the most southeast England. In heavily infected areas, full-scale work to destroy the caterpillars and the nests of the moths themselves, arranged thousands of traps, the population is warned about security measures.
Such poisonous caterpillars accumulate mainly on oaks, although able to affect other trees, eating their leaves, as well as may well appear anywhere, even crawl into residential premises, which is very dangerous for its inhabitants. By the way, employees UK Forest Society is trying to neutralize the first the turn of the nests of moths, while the caterpillars in them are still small, able to creep on trees independently.
Daily Star publishes that moths are likely to were brought into the United Kingdom a few years ago from mainland Europe in the form of eggs on oak seedlings: there is suspicion from biologists. Therefore today’s invasion toxic insects – not the first time, it was observed in the Fog Albion and last year, another thing is that this season “flash” of this terrible invasion of poisonous caterpillars manifested itself most vividly and painfully.
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