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 ...

Less familiar are details of Native Americans' interaction with the thumb-sized bugs. To them, "Mormon" crickets were as much ...

A startup called American Castanea has joined the quest to revive the American chestnut tree, the first step in its plan to ...

For example, glypure and bombykol, the sex pheromones of the gypsy and silkworm moths, respectively, elicit responses in the male antenna at concentrations of only a few hundred molecules per ...

The National Park Service will fund stream flow measurements at Barryville, and Japanese mystery snails have been found in ...

However, you might find your once-vibrant oak trees stripped bare by defoliation, and that is nothing short of disheartening. If you notice defoliation, you may be dealing with a case of a gypsy moth ...

The Lymantria dispar, or spongy/gypsy moth, was introduced to North America in 1869 at Medford, Mass., where it was used in a failed silk-production experiment.

Sensitive forest ecosystems become more vulnerable, particularly when the sun shines and it does not rain—pest insects, such as gypsy moths and the like, can proliferate in the forest and cause ...

The spongy moth (Lymantria dispar dispar), formerly known as the gypsy moth, is a destructive forest and tree pest ...

Philip “Bunk” Griffin, a Saranac Laker who documented and became part of this village’s history, died at home on Oct. 16. He ...