The Minnesota Department of Agriculture is placing a location near Grand Rapids and near two other cities in the state under ...

Shenandoah County is beginning its process of aerial spraying a pesticide to get rid of Spongy Moth catepilars.

Scientists in India were stunned after collecting the first scientific specimen of a moth species in 73 years.

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture is placing areas infested with spongy moths under quarantine next month ...

Three cities in the Midwest will have a quarantine placed on them to help tackle outbreaks of spongy moth-infested areas.

The three areas were scheduled to be aerially managed this spring with an insecticide used to kill spongy moth caterpillars, ...

North Carolina officials will start treatment in May for an infestation of spongy moths in the Waynesville area.

ST. PAUL, Minn. – A spongy moth quarantine is being placed on areas in Winona, Coon Rapids, and Grand Rapids.

The spongy moth was introduced to North America in an effort to create a silk industry. Moth populations exploded because it has no natural predators. Officials are spreading a fungus which kills ...

Plans to spray for spongy moths in five Minnesota counties have been scrapped after the federal funding for the aerial treatments didn’t come through. The Minnesota Department of Agriculture ...

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture planned to apply an insecticide called Btk to 12 areas throughout the state to fight the spongy moth, whose voracious appetite is devastating to forests.