In June 2014, and again in June 2015, the United States Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) found one Asian Gypsy Moth in North Charleston – one just off the ...

U.S. bug experts are dropping the name gypsy moth because it is considered an ethnic slur. They are doing the same for gypsy ants. The announcement is the first time the Entomological Society of ...

It was May when Mary Lou Yeager first noticed that the trees on her Shermans Dale property weren’t as lively as they used to be. She quickly realized that gypsy moths were the culprit. Yeager called a ...

While it's too late to sign up for Perry County's residential gypsy moth spraying program, now is the time to look for egg masses and to hire a private applicator. At the county commissioners' Jan. 12 ...

The gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar) remains one of the most intensively studied forest pests due to its dynamic population fluctuations and wide-ranging ecological impacts. Its outbreaks not only lead ...

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 ...

The Virginia Department of Forestry (DOF) and the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) are joining forest health professionals to monitor the invasive spongy moth (formerly ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ State environmental officials say they have captured a record number of gypsy moths, an exotic insect which defoliates and can eventually kill trees. The Iowa Department of ...