Macomb County residents are asked to be on the lookout for egg masses laid by an invasive moth species that can lay waste to ...

The sphinx moth has a name that sounds straight out of mythology, but it actually reflects three very real creatures. Its name draws from the sphinx, the hawk, and the hummingbird — each describing ...

FOSTER – State forester Alana Russell pulled off Hartford Pike on a gray afternoon this month to investigate a holiday intruder’s fluttering courtship occurring in the adjacent woods. That the air ...

Cindy Burkhardt had been watching a sphinx moth caterpillar in her garden for several days, but then it disappeared. Soon thereafter, she saw another trundling across a dirt road on Rabbit Mountain.

“You’re moving the pupa with the plants in the soil. If people don’t move landscape plants around, they won’t get infested.” She said she suspects that several years ago, a few pesky winter moth pupa ...

I talked about your question with my friend Allan Felsot. He’s an insect scientist at Washington State University. He told me cocoons are mostly silk. But they’re usually made by moths. A butterfly ...

Last summer I found three tomato hornworms feeding on my tomato vines. I was impressed with their bright colors and 4-inch length and wondered just what kind of a moth these turn into when they ...

WARWICK — The winter moth, an invasive spring leaf-eater that in recent years has punctually emerged after Thanksgiving to swarm in startling numbers in the beams of Christmas lights, could be ...

The gypsy moth infestation has been going on for weeks, wreaking havoc on thousands of acres of trees throughout the state. In neighborhoods affected by the defoliation plague, the crunch of ...