The Pa. DCNR has planned a rare spraying for fall cankerworms as well as for spongy moths across Pennsylvania. Here's why and ...

Spongy moths previously were known by the common name gypsy moth, but the Entomological ... begin as soon as leaf-out occurs and spongy moth egg masses hatch, likely in late April and May.

Pennsylvania’s Department of Conservation and Natural Resources wants forest owners to help fight spongy moths — formerly known as gypsy moths. Spongy moths pose a serious threat to oaks ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

These sacs contain scores of gypsy moth eggs. If you remove them at this stage, you can save your oak from as many as 1,000 hatched gypsy moth caterpillars from each fuzzy mass. You can find lone sacs ...

It’s the contented munching of oak tree leaves by the furry, long-haired gypsy moth caterpillars ... a lot of egg masses laid by female moths, so we knew there would be varying degrees ...

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 ...