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“You have several species of trees that are highly attractive to spongy moths, so all oak species, most maple, red maple, sugar maple, and almost every species of deciduous trees,” said Latz.

After the discovery, Wood raised adult moths and distributed them to British collectors, and the species was described and mentioned in all major British handbooks, according to the study.