The plan would treat approximately 17,328 acres of land in the greater Eastern Panhandle, including the counties of Berkeley, ...

is proposing aerial treatment of approximately 17,328 acres for the purpose of reducing significant impacts to forested lands within West Virginia caused by the Lymantria dispar (spongy moth aka ...

and would be dispersed in May to kill caterpillars of the spongy moth (also known as Lymantria dispar or gypsy moths). The species is native to Europe and is invasive and dangerous to North America.

Spongy moths (Lymantria dispar dispar, formerly known as the gypsy moth) are a major threat to Pennsylvania’s forests, having killed millions of oak and other tree species, officials said.

There on their sheet was a male Lymantria kanara — the first scientifically collected in 73 years. The moth was previously only known from a specimen collected in 1951, researchers said.

The City of Toronto says the LDD (Lymantria dispar dispar) moth is at “outbreak levels ... 10 days following the first application. The city says the moth (formerly known as the European Gypsy Moth) ...

Spongy moth caterpillars are wreaking havoc ... also known to entomologists and lepidopterists as “Lymantria dispar” and formerly as gypsy moths, which can cause the most harm to local trees.

In the middle of the 20th century, researchers studying insects along the southern coast of India collected a never-before-seen species of moth ... named Lymantria kanara, researchers said ...