Populations have steeply declined since the caterpillars’ 2022 peak made working outside in central and coastal Maine riskier and itchier, but the caterpillars haven’t disappeared.

Seven acres of poplar and willow trees defoliated by satin moths were recently discovered in the Spooner Lake area. The Nevada Department of Agriculture and the Nevada Division of Forestry found ...

Cindy Burkhardt had been watching a sphinx moth caterpillar in her garden for several days, but then it disappeared. Soon thereafter, she saw another trundling across a dirt road on Rabbit Mountain.

The box tree moth, an invasive species from East Asia, poses a significant threat to boxwood shrubs in Michigan. The moth caterpillars can defoliate a boxwood within a single season and eventually ...

Millions of sterile moths are being shipped each week across the U.S. border from an Okanagan facility that breeds the bugs.