Laura Bailey, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Yates County Natural Resources Educator & Northwest Regional Director of the Master Forest Owner (MFO) Program FINGER LAKES — Currently, in the Finger ...

If you've noticed an abundance of hungry black caterpillars devouring your trees or crawling around on your patio, you may be dealing with an invasion of spongy moths. These insects, formerly called ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The Entomological Society of America (ESA) has renamed the insect we commonly refer to as a “gypsy moth” or Lymantria dispar. The “spongy moth” is now the approved name for the ...

The Entomological Society of America, an organization that oversees bug naming, has dropped the term “gypsy moth,” considered an ethnic slur to the Romani people. This move is the first two for the ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WFFF) — Residents of the Dodds Court neighborhood in Burlington will tell you it’s not a typical leafy June in the New North End neighborhood. That’s because an infestation of gypsy ...

The worst gypsy moth infestation in 15 years has prompted a South Burlington resident to protect her neighborhood trees. Hosing hundreds of the moths' voracious caterpillars from the walls of her ...

While the name of the target insect has been changed to spongy moth, from the familiar gypsy moth, the attack remains much the same - aerial spraying – and it’s getting underway right on schedule. The ...

For the first time since 2002, the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has resumed aerial spraying to kill gypsy moth caterpillars in eight counties. The site nearest to Lancaster ...

GOODELLS - Inside a cluster of trees by the Pine River Nature Center on Friday, Kirsten Lyons smeared an old gypsy moth egg mass on the back of a clipboard. Nearby on a black cherry tree were several ...