Predators are far more likely to attack adult moths than caterpillars, highlighting the protective power of metamorphosis.

Tami Gingrich outlines the effects of light pollution on native moth populations and makes suggestions for helping them.

UR ecologist Kristine Grayson shows a female moth in the lab. Grayson is leading a UR research project studying the effects of a warm climate on invasive gypsy moths, which do damage to trees.

“The gypsy moth is originally native to Eurasia,” according to the DEEP. By the 1600s, it was already being noted as an insect that causes problems. By the 1800s, it had become a prominent ...

Gypsy moth caterpillars raining down from trees may sound like a horror movie, but state entomologist says it would be a good thing By Cassandra Day [email protected] @cassandrasdis on ...

In March of 2022, the ESA formally adopted “spongy moth” as the new common name for Lymantria dispar in a reference to the spongy nature of the insect’s egg masses.

Spongy moths – formerly known as gypsy moths – appear to be making an early appearance this summer. Reports of large numbers of brown moths with a penchant for diving at people in their ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Low-flying yellow planes will soon spray a pheromone treatment over tree canopies in Upper Arlington and Hilliard. Scientists renamed the gypsy moth to spongy moth last ...

James Wieferich, forest health specialist with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, says the state agency is seeing smaller egg masses from the spongy moth, previously known as the gypsy ...

Until last month, it was called the gypsy moth. Now, it’s known as the spongy moth, a name inspired by the moth’s spongy egg masses. No matter what they’re called, the invasive moths are bad ...

Wisconsin is seeing an uptick in an invasive species of bugs known as the "gypsy" moths thanks to dry weather this spring and summer. The number of the moths, also known as Lymantria dispar ...

Female gypsy moths look for quasi-protected spots to lay their eggs such as the underside of tree limbs, along the rough bark of tree trunks, on the walls of sheds or houses, or even under fallen ...