Within three months, a shipment of small branches arrived in California. The branches carried not only cottony cushion scale, ...

The Ohio Department of Agriculture is set to conduct aerial spraying to manage the invasive spongy moth population in Mount Vernon and surrounding areas this week.

MOUNT VERNON – The Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) is spraying to control theinvasive spongy moth in portions of the City of Mount Vernon and surrounding areas early this week. Spongy moth ...

NSRC Data Collection Page: The Northeastern States Research Cooperative (NSRC) is a competitive grant program supporting cross-disciplinary, collaborative research in the Northern Forest—a ...

Bug experts are dropping the common name of a destructive insect because it's considered an ethnic slur: the gypsy moth.

I’m flying the de Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth, the airplane that trained thousands of pilots from across the British Empire to take to the air in World War II.

After a rigorous selection process, Squadron Leader Majithia underwent basic flying training in Karachi Flying Club where he trained on the Gypsy Moth aircraft. Further, in August 1940, Dalip Singh ...

He said the mushrooms may have been affected by three years of gypsy moth infestation, which defoliated trees in the Berkshires leaving the soil exposed. “The sun was baking the forest floor,” he said ...

When brown patches reappeared on Mount Beacon a few weeks ago, I dismissed it as the return of the gypsy moth. But local Facebook groups filled with panicked queries from people who wanted to know why ...

Aerial treatments underway near Mount Rogers to slow spread of spongy moths The USDA Forest Service and the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services plan to spray treatments from ...

SMYTH COUNTY, Va. (WJHL) – Federal and state wildlife officials will spray treatments over parts of Southwest Virginia to control the spread of spongy moths, formerly known as gypsy moths. A … ...

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.