If you've noticed an abundance of hungry black caterpillars devouring your trees or crawling around on your patio, you may be dealing with an invasion of spongy moths. These insects, formerly called ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Spongy moths, formerly known as “gypsy moths,” will start to emerge in West Michigan soon. On Tuesday, FOX 17 talked with Joanne Foreman, Communications Specialist with ...

BAY CITY, MI - Bay County’s old Gypsy moth suppression program was recently renamed to the “Bay County Forest Sustainability Program”. The change was made to better fit the organization’s ...

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 ...

DULUTH — Entomologists have changed the name of the gypsy moth to the spongy moth, but the battle against the forest-munching invaders will continue this summer with aerial spraying in eastern ...

The recent name change for the gypsy moth has led state agencies to make alterations to their online materials about the destructive, invasive insect now officially known as the spongy moth.

Previously, the insect’s common name, "gypsy moth," contained a racist term. "Gypsy is considered a racial slur by many Romani people,” Magda Matache, a Romani scholar and director of the ...

The scientists who have been working on changing an invasive moth’s common name, which included an ethnic slur, have made their decision. Previously known as “gypsy moth,” the species ...

(WFRV) – In an attempt to stop using a name deemed derogatory, the “gypsy moth” is no more and officials have determined a new name for the insect. The Entomological Society of America (ESA ...