1.   And after stripping the trees bare, Asian gypsy moths have been known to attack nearby field crops.

2.   AIRBORNE DEVASTATION POLLUTION-CREATES-INSECT-PLAGUES-NEW-SCIENTIST-NYTSF Pollution black spots allow insects to strip trees bare, say ecologists in Finland.

3.   But not even the most diligent, scientifically minded foresters could quite strip these trees of all of their wildness.

4.   But maple trees throughout the region suffered a staggering beating during the freakish January storm, which stripped trees of branches, uprooting and killing many trees outright.

5.   Most standing trees are stripped of leaves.

6.   Moving from the northeast to the southwest, the twister sucked barbed wire off fence posts and stripped trees of foliage.

7.   Tall trees have been stripped of all but the highest branches.

8.   Trees were stripped bare or ripped from the ground.

9.   Other trees were stripped of leaves.

10.   Environmentalists with the Madrid regional government say that in the worst-hit spots, the insects have stripped trees bare.