Fairfax County plans attack against inchworms

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Fairfax County officials are expecting this year’s inchworm epidemic to be so widespread that they’re launching an aerial attack against them.

For the first time in a decade, the county plans to bring in a helicopter to drop pesticides on the worms, which experts fear are killing maple, hickory and oak trees and foliage.

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