When I heard the helicopter flying over my Lakewood bedroom about 6 AM, I knew it was gypsy moth spraying time.

At first I thought I’d try to go back to sleep, but the pilot was doing a quite thorough job.

Back and forth across the Country Club Additions Subdivision.

Up and down on a path parallel to Lake Avenue.

Then back and forth along and between the Gates.

I finally thought that since I was awake I might as well try to get a picture, as I have in prior years of this fight against the insect defoliator.

Here it is going along South Shore Drive.

May 22, 2015, spraying for gypsy moths in Lakewood, Illinois.