A 2016 Forest Service report said the program nationally slowed the gypsy moth’s rate of spread by more than 60 percent, from an average of 13 miles per year to less than 5 miles per year, reducing ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The West Virginia Department of Agriculture is seeking the public’s input on a proposal for aerial treatment designed to limit gypsy moth infestation. The plan would treat ...

The Virginia Department of Forestry (DOF) and the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) are joining forest health professionals to monitor the invasive spongy moth (formerly ...

Pennsylvania’s Department of Conservation and Natural Resources wants forest owners to help fight spongy moths — formerly known as gypsy moths. Spongy moths pose a serious threat to oaks, as well as ...

The largest organization of insect experts in the world is dropping its common names for two insects — the gypsy moth and gypsy ant — because it says the names are inappropriate and offensive. The ...

Natural fungus kills caterpillars once they reach cocoon stage, and before they turn into moths and lay eggs. Andy Duncan spent Friday morning in a helicopter flying over Luzerne, Wyoming and ...

(WSET) — The Virginia Department of Forestry (DOF) and the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) are joining forest health professionals across the Commonwealth to monitor ...

The results might not be immediate, but property owners hope the effects of the just-completed gypsy-moth spraying in Luzerne County pay dividends soon. According to Andy Gegaris, the county’s chief ...

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has declared an emergency over spongy moths, formerly called gypsy moths. According to a news release from the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) on Wednesday ...

Contrary to what is generally assumed, the diversity of qualitative chemicals among species of eastern deciduous forest trees is high. Qualitative defenses (e.g., alkaloids) that supplement ...