HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources announced Monday the start of aerial spraying of state woodlands to combat spongy moths (Lymantria dispar dispar, formerly known ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WJW) — The Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) announced earlier this week plans to stop the spread of an invasive species from the state. The spongy moth (Lymantria dispar dispar), ...

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 ...

PORTAGE | Fickle spring weather has delayed the spraying of some 765 acres in the central portion of the city for gypsy moths until early or mid-May. Earlier this month, the Indiana 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 ...

It won’t be a good summer for gypsy moths in Luzerne County. Not only will the foliage-eating caterpillars face an onslaught of spraying, the population continues to decline because of a fungus. Andy ...

The Berks County Conservation District is looking to help control a pesky population. The 2008 Gypsy Moth Suppression Program begins next week. It'll consist of spraying in several areas, including ...

A lack of federal dollars and the rapid spread of gypsy moths made private donations necessary to help the Wisconsin Department of Natural resources eliminate leaf-eating gypsy moths at state parks in ...

Residents of 21 central and western Wisconsin counties, including La Crosse, Vernon and Crawford, will hear and see loud, low-flying planes as early as sunrise, depending on weather conditions, this ...

Residents of 21 central and western Wisconsin counties can expect to hear and see loud, low-flying planes as early as sunrise, depending on weather conditions, starting in May. Small, yellow planes ...

Officials say they’ll find way to pay for it because it wasn’t done in ’07. Gypsy-moth spraying is expected to eat a $171,000 hole in next year’s Luzerne County budget, officials said during Tuesday’s ...

Next week, close to 100,000 acres in Southwest Virginia will be sprayed with a chemical in hopes of slowing the spread of gypsy moths, whose caterpillars damage the forest. “The actual destructive ...