Spraying targets almost 75,000 acres for spongy moths, a significant decrease from previous years, and portions of Somerset, Fayette, and Westmoreland counties for fall cankerworm. Spongy moth ...

Rosa Yoo, DCNR forest health manager, said according to her records, the last time the agency sprayed for fall cankerworm was in 1996 in southcentral/eastern Pennsylvania.

Cankerworm caterpillars of the hackberry leafroller moth have infested North Texas, including the Dallas-Fort Worth area, after recent rains provided conditions amenable to their life cycle.The ...

The Eastern tent caterpillar, the tomato hornworm, the gypsy moth caterpillar, the fall cankerworm — these pests belong to the darker side of the order Lepidoptera. But most moths are benign ...

County targets canker worm moth. By Jerry Fill. Thursday, April 25, ...

I have been following the issues regarding the program in Fairfax County to spray Bacillus thuringiensis var. kurstaki (Btk), a kind of biological insecticide, to control a native moth, the Fall ...

A cankerworm munches on a Bradford pear tree leaf in west Charlotte in April 2015. TODD SUMLIN [email protected] Cankerworms have begun to hatch, slink and munch on Charlotte’s tree ...

The cankerworm infested the trees in Somerset County last summer, ... “The moths themselves are not as detrimental as the larva stage because they don’t eat leaves,” Smith said.

This is the winter moth caterpillar, a leaf-eating menace to hardwoods. The state is tracking the presence of the winter moths.