After months of a renaming process for an invasive moth species, the Entomological Society of America has decided – “spongy moth” is the new common name replacing the offensive “gypsy moth.” ...

More than 200 new names were suggested—and rejected, in the end, in favor of this now official new name: spongy moth. "Spongy" is in reference to the egg masses of this species, which are kind ...