It's no secret that dealing with pests in the backyard is part and parcel of being a gardener. It can be a nuisance to see curious critters takeover your carefully curated planting and cause damage.

Insecticide targeting a destructive caterpillar is set to be sprayed this spring on 16 State Game Lands across Pennsylvania. The larvae of the spongy moth, if untreated, can cause severe defoliation ...

Spraying is planned for 16 different state game lands – 38,146 acres in all – and will begin as soon as spongy moth egg ...

Officials said the invasive moths, also known as gypsy moths, have infested three blocks and they will need to treat nearly 6,000 acres with a biopesticide. Low-altitude helicopters will drop an ...

The Pennsylvania Game Commission announced it intends to spray 38,000 acres of state game lands this spring in order to ...

Spongy moths were previously known as "gypsy moths" before the Entomological Society of America changed their name.

The caterpillar will turn into a spongy moth. The agency planned to spray Bacillus thuringiensis var. kurstaki, or Btk, a naturally occurring soil bacteria that kills gypsy moth caterpillars ...

It’s the caterpillar stage of the spongy moths, also known to entomologists and lepidopterists as “Lymantria dispar” and formerly as gypsy moths, which can cause the most harm to local trees.

The state never received promised funds for the annual treatment against spongy moth — formally called gypsy moth — from the U.S Department of Agriculture, putting the future of the program ...

In an effort to protect wildlife habitat, the Pennsylvania Game Commission plans to spray over 38,000 acres of state game lands this spring. Spongy moths previously were known by the common name gypsy ...

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 ...