What do you do if you’re out camping or hiking and you spy a spongy moth or its eggs in one of nine northern Indiana counties or in the entire lower peninsula of Michigan, where the U.S. Department of ...

While nature lovers are fascinated by the upcoming, once-in-a-generation emergence of cicada broods, attention is also turning to a far more dangerous bug — the spongy moth. The destabilizing and ...

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), ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The spongy moth, previously referred to as a gypsy moth, has spread (and been a problem) across the northeastern United States for a long time. But officials from the ...

HAMPDEN, Mass. (WWLP) – In 2017, western Massachusetts saw a massive outbreak of spongy moth caterpillars, formerly known as Gypsy moth caterpillars, and to this day local forests are still recovering ...

Pennsylvania’s Department of Conservation and Natural Resources wants forest owners to help fight spongy moths — formerly known as gypsy moths. Spongy moths pose a serious threat to oaks, as well as ...

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 ...

Spongy moths – formerly known as gypsy moths – appear to be making an early appearance this summer. Reports of large numbers of brown moths with a penchant for diving at people in their backyards ...

The Idaho Department of Lands says spongy moth captures in 2024 and 2025 reflect the first time a potential population has been detected in the area since 1991.

I don’t know about you, but something with spongy in the name doesn’t really imply danger. Maybe soft and squishy, but certainly not “the most serious forest defoliator in the United States.” Despite ...