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 ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed on Friday that nine egg masses that Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists discovered on a merchant ship June 2 was a first reported ...

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 ...

Gypsy moths were introduced in Massachusetts more than a century ago. The caterpillars can defoliate, weaken and kill more than 300 different species of trees and shrubs, according to the USDA. Since ...

Gypsy moth caterpillar populations remain low in New Jersey, Secretary of Agriculture Douglas H. Fisher announced recently. The state Department of Agriculture's annual gypsy moth aerial defoliation ...

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), ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The West Virginia Department of Agriculture is seeking the public’s input on a proposal for aerial treatment designed to limit gypsy moth infestation. The plan would treat ...

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 Minnesota Department of Agriculture will host four open houses in St. Louis County to discuss the environmental threat of gypsy moths and treatment plans for infestations in the area. An invasive ...

Several years of aerial spraying across Northeastern Minnesota appear to have failed to keep tree-eating gypsy moths from expanding, with the Minnesota Department of Agriculture reporting the number ...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) – These creepy critters enjoy nice long picnics in the woods. The leaf-eating gypsy moth caterpillars are out in force in parts of the mid-Atlantic following a warm, dry spring ...