According to a study, insights from the genome of the European gypsy moth may inform pest control strategies. Introduced to North America in the 1860s, the European gypsy moth caterpillar is a ...

CHICAGO -- A spraying program to control the population of the gypsy moth caterpillar has begun amid questions about the damage the insecticide may have on other species. Illinois agriculture ...

Scientists say they have figured out how a very clever virus outwits a very hungry caterpillar. The caterpillar is the gypsy moth in its larval stage, and the invasive species damages roughly a ...

A virus that kills gypsy moth caterpillars when their population surges, as it has in the Finger Lakes region and elsewhere, appears to be taking its toll on the leaf-eating pests. Here are the signs ...

Gypsy moth caterpillar populations remain low in New Jersey, Secretary of Agriculture Douglas H. Fisher announced recently. The state Department of Agriculture's annual gypsy moth aerial defoliation ...