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The best way to minimize the populations is to target the eggs and larvae in the spring/early summer months as when they hatch they strip the oaks of their leaves. While in college i worked with a professor doing research on introducing other insects into the area that either eat or attack the moths which then become ill and die off. Such things are being for other problematic insects like the japanese beetle, asiatic garden beetle and other white grub species where nematodes attack them in the grub stage and infect them.
My thought is that there must be a way to push the moths life cycle forward so that they eat the leaves around October so then we'd have less leaves to clean up. ha ha
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