Although most caterpillars are herbivores (less than 0.13% of the almost 200,000 species of moths and butterflies are predatory ... director of the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity at ...

Starting Monday, June 23, the Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) is treating several areas around the state for an invasive insect, the spongy moth (formerly the gypsy moth).

The Midland County Spongy Moth Suppression Program will begin spraying Tuesday morning over areas of the City of Midland and Midland County, approximately 4,200 acres, using helicopters.

FILE - In this July 28, 2008, file photo, a female gypsy moth lays her eggs on the trunk of a tree in the Salmon River State Forest in Hebron, Conn. Oregon agriculture officials proposes to spray ...

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

The Moth StorySLAM is an open-mic storytelling competition in which anyone can share a true, personal, 5-minute story on the night's theme. On Thursday, May 8, it will come to Sandrell Rivers ...

Officials said the invasive moths, also known as gypsy moths, have infested three blocks and they will need to treat nearly 6,000 acres with a biopesticide.

Spongy moths, your time has come. At least in the Keystone State. The Pennsylvania Game Commission announced it intends to spray 38,000 acres of state game lands this spring in order to combat ...

The University of Florida campus is experiencing a large influx of tussock moth caterpillars. While not poisonous, the caterpillars' hairs can cause skin irritation for some people. The ...

The Indiana Department of Natural Resources has scheduled a second spraying of 909 acres with Bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki, Btk for short, for Monday or Tuesday to eradicate gypsy moths.

Tussock moth caterpillars are native to Florida and the southeastern United States and feed on oak trees, among many others. Every year they hatch around the same time trees are getting new leaves ...

Plans to spray for spongy moths in five Minnesota counties have been scrapped after the federal funding for the aerial treatments didn’t come through. The Minnesota Department of Agriculture … ...