Folks living in Duluth's East and Central Hillside neighborhoods could very well wake up one morning in the next few weeks to the sound of low-flying airplanes dropping something out of their hatches.

The gypsy moth is a European species introduced to the United States in Boston during 1869 that eats the leaves of, or defoliates, some 300-500 plants, but it is particularly fond of oaks. While ...

A round of aerial treatment to prevent the spread of the invasive spongy moth is set for several parts of St. Clair County next month, two years after the species’ caterpillars wreaked havoc on local ...

Airplanes will spray forests in Bayfield and Douglas counties starting Thursday and into next weekend if necessary. Depending on the weather -- low winds and few clouds are best -- the Wisconsin ...

Galloway Township will not pay to spray for gypsy moths this year, according to Township Clerk Lisa Tilton. Some people living outside last year’s 246-acre treatment area took matters into their own ...

The Bay County Gypsy Moth Program had nearly 4,000 acres of infested woodlots treated by aerial spray to control the increasing spread of Gypsy Moths. The woodlots, located in six townships throughout ...

PORTAGE | Fickle spring weather has delayed the spraying of some 765 acres in the central portion of the city for gypsy moths until early or mid-May. Earlier this month, the Indiana Department of ...

Shenandoah National Park is planning an aerial-spraying program aimed at suppressing exotic gypsy-moth caterpillars along sections of the Skyline Drive corridor. The program will begin in mid-May, a ...

Wisconsin forestry officials said now is the time to search out gypsy moth eggs and destroy them. Department of Natural Resources forestry health officials said the pests will start hatching over the ...

Financial woes forced 30 municipalities to opt out of the Garden State's insecticide program for gypsy moths, an annual tree-ravaging pest. But many other communities still plan to treat their land, ...

Low-flying, single-engine planes are doing spraying for gypsy moths this week in western Wisconsin. The invasive moth feeds on the leaves of oaks, maples, crabapple, birch and other species of trees ...

Gypsy moths were introduced in Massachusetts more than a century ago. The caterpillars can defoliate, weaken and kill more than 300 different species of trees and shrubs, according to the USDA. Since ...