I live in Maine, where browntail moth caterpillars can be found. The caterpillars have a toxin on their hairs that can cause painful and itchy rashes on humans. I woke up covered in what I thought ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spongy moth caterpillars are wreaking havoc in wooded lots and forests across Pennsylvania. But the good news is populations ...

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has declared an emergency over spongy moths, formerly called gypsy moths. According to a news release from the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) on Wednesday ...

How do you keep a gypsy moth infestation at bay? You sexually frustrate the males until they die. That’s the strategy used by the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection ...

Editor’s note: Vote totals have been updated since the original time of publishing. KENT COUNTY, MI - Voters have decided on the proposed local tax to defend Lowell Charter Township trees from the ...

Pennsylvania DCNR will spray for spongy moths and fall cankerworm, marking the first cankerworm spraying in nearly 30 years. Spraying targets almost 75,000 acres for spongy moths, a significant ...

SANDPOINT, Idaho — The Idaho Department of Lands (IDL) said Friday that it has confirmed the detection of the invasive spongy moth (Lymantria dispar), formerly known as the gypsy moth, in Sandpoint ...

If you spot yellow aircraft flying low over the trees this week, you may wonder if you've wandered into a scene from Alfred Hitchcock's "North by Northwest." But don't worry, you (probably) aren't ...

Plans to spray for spongy moths in five Minnesota counties have been scrapped after the federal funding for the aerial treatments didn’t come through. The Minnesota Department of Agriculture said it ...

In the early years of the twentieth century, New England was invaded, and towns like Exeter scrambled to fight back. The invaders were two types of invasive moths – and their caterpillars – that had ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — In an effort to protect wildlife habitats, the Pennsylvania Game Commission on Monday announced plans to spray more than 38,000 acres of state game lands this spring. Spongy moths ...