In June 2014, and again in June 2015, the United States Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) found one Asian Gypsy Moth in North Charleston – one just off the ...

U.S. bug experts are dropping the name gypsy moth because it is considered an ethnic slur. They are doing the same for gypsy ants. The announcement is the first time the Entomological Society of ...

A gypsy moth larva crawls along a leaf. United States Department of Agriculture In the late 1860s, an amateur entomologist named Etienne Trouvelot accidentally released the Eurasian gypsy moth, a ...

It was May when Mary Lou Yeager first noticed that the trees on her Shermans Dale property weren’t as lively as they used to be. She quickly realized that gypsy moths were the culprit. Yeager called a ...

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, as well as ...

The Virginia Department of Forestry (DOF) and the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) are joining forest health professionals to monitor the invasive spongy moth (formerly ...

The gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar) remains one of the most intensively studied forest pests due to its dynamic population fluctuations and wide-ranging ecological impacts. Its outbreaks not only lead ...

Creepy and crawly, an old neighborhood nemesis - the gypsy moth - is making a return in West Michigan.The City of Kentwood, in conjunction with the Kent County Administrator's Office and the cities of ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ State environmental officials say they have captured a record number of gypsy moths, an exotic insect which defoliates and can eventually kill trees. The Iowa Department of ...

MONTAGUE - A low-flying airplane will be over areas of the township early Wednesday morning spraying for what are now known as spongy moth caterpillars. The areas are to receive a liquid spray over ...