The Minnesota Department of Agriculture plans to treat 42 areas across seven counties for spongy moth, which is spreading north and southeast of the Twin Cities. Its caterpillars have voracious ...

The leaf-eating, caterpillar stage of the spongy moth, formerly called the gypsy moth. Agencies in eastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin this summer will use aircraft to spray against the ...

as caterpillars defoliate large sections of urban and natural forests. A spongy moth quarantine is already in effect in Lake and Cook counties. Minnesota's participation in the national "Slow the ...

Planning a June outdoor wedding in northern Minnesota ... wet spring knocked back caterpillar populations as they did with gypsy moth populations. While winter cold doesn’t kill tiny ...

The don't have a lot of natural predators, and gypsy moth caterpillars can defoliate trees in the middle of summer. Minnesota is on the front lines of the battle against the insects, and the state ...

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture said ... public resource and keep trusted journalism accessible to all. Gypsy moth caterpillars, or larvae, can defoliate large swaths of forest; they ...

A large outbreak of the eastern spruce budworm is defoliating trees and stressing or killing them, which can then help fuel ...

A single spongy moth caterpillar can eat 11 square feet of ... The line of invasion is now a band that spans from North Carolina to Minnesota. The winged bug underwent a name change along with ...

The giant leopard moth caterpillar has black spikes (which ... is found from southern Ontario south to Florida and west to Minnesota and Texas, according to the University of Florida.

A Monarch caterpillar munching on a milkweed leaf. The milkweed tussock moth (Euchaetes egle) is native to this area. Its range in the U.S. extends from Maine to Minnesota, south to Florida and Texas.