In June, he came back from a holiday trip overseas to find his plantation reduced to an expanse of bare, dying tree trunks covered in thousands of matchstick-like inchworms--caterpillars of the inchworm moth species Milionia basalis pryeri.
當他六月份出國旅遊回來，竹柏園裡迎接他的是一棵棵奄奄一息的禿幹，爬滿千千萬萬的蟲子。