Researchers have discovered an ancient moth-like sea predator in a treasure trove of museum fossils in Canada. The ...

The Mosura fentoni, or "sea moth," is a newly-discovered type of arthropod that would have lived in the deep sea more than ...

Among all these pollinators, bumble bees are some of the largest and most familiar insects to us. You might be surprised to ...

Aerial spraying to tamp down an infestation of the forest-killing spongy moth in Waynesville and Maggie Valley has been bumped back to the second half of next week. The spraying in Haywood County was ...

In the damp hollows of a Hawaiian mountainside, something stirs in the shadows of cobwebs. It is not a spider. Nor the long-legged centipedes or impaling air-snatchers that usually star in the islands ...

(WLUK) -- Wildlife officials will be spraying three state parks for invasive species in the next month ... finalized aerial spraying plans for its Spongy Moth Suppression Program, with maps ...

Spongy moths — the invasive pest whose caterpillars can defoliate and destroy large sections of forest — are on the rise in Haywood. Aerial spraying from a helicopter will be deployed starting Friday ...

The caterpillar, a previously unknown species, is a member of a group of moths called Hyposmocoma native to Hawaii that includes hundreds of species and arose about 12 million years ago. The ...

"Spongy moths are a ... on over 300 different species of trees and shrubs. They were first introduced in in Massachusetts and have since made their way west, as caterpillars defoliate large ...

(WHSV) - Shenandoah County is beginning its process of aerial spraying a pesticide to get rid of Spongy Moth caterpillars ... animals feed on the leaves of species of trees and shrubs, eventually ...