The problem was brought up by a resident at the last Pittsgrove Township Committee meeting. All along Route 40, trees can be seen with massive amounts of defoliation done to them because of these ...

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 ...

The gypsy moth is a European species introduced to the United States in Boston during 1869 that eats the leaves of, or defoliates, some 300-500 plants, but it is particularly fond of oaks. While ...

You shouldn’t see much of the gypsy moth in Northeastern Pennsylvania this summer, or anywhere in the state for that matter. Last week, the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources finished ...

The Borough Council vowed to combat the gypsy moth at its meeting last night. Declaring the moth a “public nuisance,” the Council voted to authorize “all measures deemed necessary” to “suppress this ...

Sometimes you have to get up early to get a jump on the enemy. It was just after 6 a.m. Wednesday, and Vicki Feigi had been on a hill south of Tomah for more than two hours when her cell phone rang.

MIDDLEBURG — The Snyder County Conservation District will coordinate a 2009 spray program to help control gypsy moth infestations. Woodlot owners who have evidence of a gypsy moth problem may call the ...

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 ...