Gypsy moths have been a problem in Michigan since the 1890s when they first showed up in Michigan’s forests. They are destructive moths that eat their way through trees. Despite attempts to control ...

Financial woes forced 30 municipalities to opt out of the Garden State's insecticide program for gypsy moths, an annual tree-ravaging pest. But many other communities still plan to treat their land, ...

Andy Duncan spent Friday morning in a helicopter flying over Luzerne, Wyoming and Susquehanna counties looking for damage. It’s easy to spot, but to get a better grasp at how widespread the ...

Several years of aerial spraying across Northeastern Minnesota appear to have failed to keep tree-eating gypsy moths from expanding, with the Minnesota Department of Agriculture reporting the number ...

TRENTON – The annual New Jersey Department of Agriculture’s statewide gypsy moth aerial defoliation survey showed 1,068 acres of trees in 21 municipalities received moderate to heavy damage this year ...

U.S. bug experts are dropping the name gypsy moth because it is considered an ethnic slur. They are doing the same for gypsy ants. The announcement is the first time the Entomological Society of ...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) – These creepy critters enjoy nice long picnics in the woods. The leaf-eating gypsy moth caterpillars are out in force in parts of the mid-Atlantic following a warm, dry spring ...

WAYNESVILLE, N.C. (FOX Carolina) - North Carolina officials will start treatment in May for an infestation of spongy moths in the Waynesville area. Officials said the invasive moths, also known as ...

Gypsy moths are back for the second consecutive year, so Fairfax County plans to spray from helicopters this month to combat the caterpillars. More dry weather for the past two years, county officials ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WJW) — The Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) announced earlier this week plans to stop the spread of an invasive species from the state. The spongy moth (Lymantria dispar dispar), ...