If you've noticed an abundance of hungry black caterpillars devouring your trees or crawling around on your patio, you may be dealing with an invasion of spongy moths. These insects, formerly called ...

Spongy moths, an invasive pest credited with an average of 808,000 acres of annual deforestation in the northeastern third of ...

Northeastern Minnesota is the central battleground this year in the state's war against tree-eating gypsy moths. "We're seeing a big increase in the number of moths caught in our monitoring traps," ...

Bug experts are dropping the common name of a destructive insect because it’s considered an ethnic slur: the gypsy moth. The Entomological Society of America, which oversees the common names of bugs, ...

The Entomological Society of America, an organization that oversees bug naming, dropped the term, “gypsy moth,” considered an ethnic slur to the Romani people. This move is one of the first two for ...

(WFSB) - The moths formerly known as the gypsy moths have state scientists and environmental officials concerned about one part of the state. The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station and the ...

Q: I have observed fewer gypsy moth infestations in Northeastern forests in recent years. What’s going on? A: The gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar, has recently been under significant pressure from the ...