TUALATIN, Ore. -- Gypsy moths -- perennially unwelcome summer visitors that have defoliated entire forests along the upper East Coast -- are back in Oregon. Agriculture Department employees have ...

Next week, close to 100,000 acres in Southwest Virginia will be sprayed with a chemical in hopes of slowing the spread of gypsy moths, whose caterpillars damage the forest. “The actual destructive ...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) – These creepy critters enjoy nice long picnics in the woods. The leaf-eating gypsy moth caterpillars are out in force in parts of the mid-Atlantic following a warm, dry spring ...

A gypsy moth larva crawls along a leaf. United States Department of Agriculture In the late 1860s, an amateur entomologist named Etienne Trouvelot accidentally released the Eurasian gypsy moth, a ...