The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) is urging Minnesotans to be on the lookout for spongy moths as experts detect concerning levels in cities across the state. Experts are seeing high ...

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture planned to apply an insecticide called Btk to 12 areas throughout the state to fight the spongy moth, whose voracious appetite is devastating to forests.

Spongy moth caterpillars are wreaking havoc in wooded lots and forests across Pennsylvania. But the good news is populations appear to be dwindling. It’s the caterpillar stage of the spongy ...

Samples of female spongy moths and larvae — part of a hundred year old collection at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven. The female moths have wings but are flightless.

The commission said spraying will begin "as soon as leaf-out occurs and spongy moth egg masses hatch, likely in late April and May."No spraying will be scheduled on the mornings of youth turkey ...

DULUTH — Plans to spray for spongy moths in five Minnesota counties, including three in the Northland, have been scrapped after the federal funding for the aerial treatments didn't come through.