BY PEPPER FISHER Port Angeles – Washington state’s annual search for over 130 invasive insects, weeds and plant pathogens has begun, and Clallam County is included in the program. Employees with the state Department of Agriculture are traveling across Washington to set traps for species such as spongy moths, Japanese beetles and apple maggots. That first one, the spongy moth, has been found in Port Angeles, sometimes in large numbers, and traps …
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