MADISON, Wis. -- The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection is once again gearing up to put more than 10,000 spongy moth traps around the state to monitor the species' ...

The gypsy moth is capable of infesting Washington state and eating every morsel of foliage in its path. If there’s a gypsy moth in Fort Borst Park, the state Department of Agriculture is going to know ...

A rare and "magnificent" type of moth found on the Calf of Man has marked the first confirmed report of the species on the ...

A press release from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture: The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) is setting nearly 23,000 gypsy moth traps across eastern Minnesota this spring as part of ...

Washington Department of Agriculture’s Andrew Majeske puts up a gypsy moth trap on Trigg Road east of Ferndale in July 2010. Workers are putting up 16,000 traps in Washington, including in Whatcom ...

The Idaho Department of Lands has placed around 130 traps in the trees of the Sandpoint area, in the hopes of ascertaining the level of threat posed by some very hungry caterpillars. The traps are a ...

The annual gypsy moth summer trapping program is under way. By the end of July more than 22,000 small cardboard traps will be placed around the state, checked every two to three weeks during the ...

A pink- and caramel-colored elephant hawk-moth sitting on a leaf. The content of a small box on his roof terrace in central London has taught ecologist Tim Blackburn more about the natural world than ...

MADISON, Wis.—Gypsy moth traps are being tied onto trees across western and central Wisconsin to better understand where the invasive pests are. The state Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer ...

The state’s annual gypsy moth hunt is under way, with up to 40 trappers setting 19,000 traps statewide — including 750 in Clallam County and 700 in Jefferson County. “We’ve done it successfully for 28 ...

Clark County — Summer trapping caught 42 invasive gypsy moths in six counties earlier this year, including three in Clark County, according to the Washington State Department of Agriculture. State ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP)-- Officials will set more than 14,000 gypsy moth traps across Minnesota this spring as part of the state's annual monitoring program for the destructive tree pest. Gypsy moth ...