Volunteers spent three days in St. Mary’s County measuring specimens for the Maryland Big Tree Program, adding 20 champion trees to the state’s inventory. Some trees were remeasured, such as the ...

Sign up for the Gazette's morning newsletter and get essential news each day. GRANBY — The trees along the roadsides in Granby keep disappearing. Resident Cheryl ...

First, it was the spotted lanternfly wreaking havoc and killing trees and shrubbery in Bucks County and throughout Pennsylvania. Now, there's another invasive species chewing through vast numbers of ...

Boettner studies the winter moth now, another invasive species whose caterpillars attack trees. In the course of studying winter moth defoliation he took a look at gypsy moth defoliation in areas all ...

TRENTON – The annual New Jersey Department of Agriculture’s statewide gypsy moth aerial defoliation survey showed 1,068 acres of trees in 21 municipalities received moderate to heavy damage this year ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources announced Monday the start of aerial spraying of state woodlands to combat spongy moths (Lymantria dispar dispar, formerly known ...

The Virginia Department of Forestry (DOF) and the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) are joining forest health professionals to monitor the invasive spongy moth (formerly ...

Officials with the Missouri Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with three other government agencies, are collecting information used to track the movement of a different breed of terrorist ...

Jackson County is grappling with an infestation of gypsy moths, and officials are working to thwart their spread and subsequent damage to the tree population. “They are a significant forest pest in ...

The pest has defoliated 112,340 acres of Virginia's forests this year, which is more attribute the moth's comeback to some very dry springs that killed off a fungus that feeds on the moth in its ...

How do you keep a gypsy moth infestation at bay? You sexually frustrate the males until they die. That’s the strategy used by the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection ...