The larvae of the spongy moth, if untreated, can cause severe defoliation to oak forests that are important habitats for ...

The insecticide being used is an insect growth regulator called ... Eating the sprayed foliage triggers pre-mature molting in the spongy moth caterpillars, and they cease eating and die, according ...

After escaping hungry fish, mayfly duns fly to streamside vegetation to once again molt, this time transforming ... Caddisflies are aquatic insects that are related to moths.

1 Bat – Bats are important for pollination and insect control. – There are around 1,400 bat ... They dine on a menu that includes clothes moth larvae, carpet beetle larvae, booklice, ants, mites, and ...

The species, dubbed the "bone collector," belongs to an ancient lineage of moths older than the Hawaiian island of Oahu, ...

Newly described bone collector caterpillars build a silken case around their bodies and adorn it with dead insect body parts ...

The invasive spongy moth, a destroyer of northeastern forests, has a natural foe in a Japanese fungus that needs certain ...

If an experiment is repeated under similar conditions, the results should be the same. In reality, the situation is often different—scientists speak of a "reproducibility crisis," which affects ...

Spraying is planned for 16 different state game lands – 38,146 acres in all – and will begin as soon as spongy moth egg ...