Their preferred hosts are oak, apple, birch ... and pupae will help disrupt the lifecycle,' says Jana. Gypsy moths will lay eggs on fallen leaves while the caterpillars are attracted to them ...

Gypsy moth caterpillar excrement -- and bits of chewed-up oak leaves -- on the street under ... And the females lay the egg masses, which overwinter, and that provide us with the population ...

THE GYPSY MARK CATERPILLAR ... scientists and Romani scholars. "Spongy moths" also better describes the insect's distinctive sponge-like egg masses. State and federal programs have slowed ...

Spongy moths, formerly called gypsy moths, have been eating oak tree leaves across the state ... “The numbers are still damagingly high as far as egg mass counts, but they are lower than last ...

Spongy moths, formerly known as “gypsy moths,” will start to emerge ... As many people know, spongy moths tend to feed on leaves— oak trees and sometimes whatever else may be around ...

The spongy moth, formerly known as the gypsy moth ... A spongy moth egg mass at Fullersburg Woods Forest Preserve in Oak Brook. (Chuck Berman/Chicago Tribune) A spongy moth caterpillar crawls ...

It’s the caterpillar stage of the spongy moths, also known to entomologists and lepidopterists as “Lymantria dispar” and formerly as gypsy ... Red Oak tree from spongy moth egg masses ...

The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources announced Monday the start of aerial spraying of state woodlands to combat spongy moths (Lymantria dispar dispar, formerly known as the gypsy ...

THE GYPSY MARK CATERPILLAR ... scientists and Romani scholars. "Spongy moths" also better describes the insect's distinctive sponge-like egg masses. State and federal programs have slowed the spread ...