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' ...

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 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 ...

Jennifer Berg of the Washington State Department of Agriculture sets a gypsy moth trap in Waterfront Park in Vancouver last June. Only one of the moths was caught in Clark County at the end of the ...

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 ...

Gypsy moths are again in the cross hairs of the state Department of Agriculture as the agency has begun its annual trapping effort to see whether any of the pests are here. The moth is a destructive ...

MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection plans to start setting thousands of spongy moth traps around the state to help monitor the species’ population, ...

Here’s what to do to get rid of pesky moths flitting around indoors.

Those whose gardens were ravaged by tent caterpillars this year may not be feeling particularly friendly toward moths of any kind just now. When the night is thick with rusty-brown tent caterpillar ...

SANDPOINT, Idaho — The Idaho Department of Lands (IDL) said on Tuesday, that an invasive spongy moth was detected in Sandpoint for the first time in more than 30 years. IDL works with the Idaho State ...

Pest Program is proposing eradication projects for the spring of 2026 to eradicate spongy moth and Japanese beetle. The ...