North Carolina officials will start treatment in May for an infestation of spongy moths in the Waynesville area.

Tens of thousands of Pennsylvania game lands are planned to be sprayed this Spring for an invasive species that continues to ...

The Pennsylvania Game Commission announced it intends to spray 38,000 acres of state game lands this spring in order to ...

Plans to spray for spongy moths in five Minnesota counties have been scrapped after the federal funding for the aerial ...

The state never received promised funds for the annual treatment against spongy moth — formally called gypsy moth — from ... is effective at killing the invasive caterpillars — almost ...

The invasive spongy moth, a destroyer of northeastern forests, has a natural foe in a Japanese fungus that needs certain ...

Spraying is planned for 16 different state game lands – 38,146 acres in all – and will begin as soon as spongy moth egg ...

It’s the caterpillar stage of the spongy moths, also known to entomologists and lepidopterists as “Lymantria dispar” and formerly as gypsy moths ... property from the invasive species.

Spongy moths were previously known as "gypsy moths" before the Entomological Society of America changed their name.

Plant Protection Division Director Mark Abrahamson talks about the impact of federal funding delays on state efforts to manage spongy moths.

In an effort to protect wildlife habitat, the Pennsylvania Game Commission plans to spray over 38,000 acres of state game lands this spring. Spongy moths previously were known by the common name gypsy ...