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 ...

Airplanes will crisscross the skies over the Northland this spring and summer in the largest aerial combat yet against leaf-eating gypsy moths. With more gypsy moths found in Northeastern Minnesota ...

BAY CITY, MI - Bay County’s old Gypsy moth suppression program was recently renamed to the “Bay County Forest Sustainability Program”. The change was made to better fit the organization’s purpose ...

Eggs hatch in late spring. Caterpillars eat leaves through midsummer. Caterpillars pupate and transform into moths in late July and August. Moths live only a few days to mate, lay eggs and then die.

It was May when Mary Lou Yeager first noticed that the trees on her Shermans Dale property weren’t as lively as they used to be. She quickly realized that gypsy moths were the culprit. Yeager called a ...