Until all this (caterpillar) poop started to fall like rain, people didn’t know (the gypsy moth had returned),” Ashcroft recalled of last spring’s outbreak. So far this spring, Ashcroft said her trees ...

In addition to bare branches, another telltale sign of the gypsy moth's presence this time of year are globs of eggs and the white-colored females that lay them sticking to the trunks of trees, pale ...

Scientists say they have figured out how a very clever virus outwits a very hungry caterpillar. The caterpillar is the gypsy moth in its larval stage, and the invasive species damages roughly a ...

A fungus known to decimate populations of gypsy moths creates “death clouds” of spores that can travel more than 40 miles to potentially infect populations of invasive moths, according to a new ...

DULUTH, Minn. — Agricultural officials are preparing to launch their largest air war ever to protect the forests of northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin against gypsy moths. In the wake ...