Within three months, a shipment of small branches arrived in California. The branches carried not only cottony cushion scale, ...

Have you ever sat beneath the branches of a stately weeping willow in full bloom in late winter? Or have you ever taken in ...

It may seem like a scene from "North by Northwest," but the crop dusters flying low over Ohio trees are treating for an ...

Age is just a number, or is it? A new study by UTEP researchers shows that adult moths are more vulnerable to attack than ...

In this July 28, 2008 file photo, a female Lymantria dispar moth lays her eggs on the trunk of a tree in the Salmon River State Forest in Hebron, Conn. In July 2021, the Entomological Society of ...

The gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar) remains one of the most intensively studied forest pests due to its dynamic population fluctuations and wide-ranging ecological impacts. Its outbreaks not only ...

Spraying is planned for 16 different state game lands – 38,146 acres in all – and will begin as soon as leaf-out occurs and spongy moth egg masses hatch, likely in late April and May.

That’s exactly what happened in the early and mid-1990s. Defoliation hit its peak in 1995, as the gypsy moth stripped trees on about 850,000 acres of Virginia forest.

A species of moth thought to be extinct in England for more than 70 years has made a dramatic return. The Tiree Twist moth ...

Edmund White, a father of modern queer literature who literally wrote the book on gay sex, and who blended honesty and humor in a trilogy of semiautobiographical novels that traced the trajectory ...

A major conservation breakthrough has been made after a species of moth that was long thought to be extinct in England has ...