Pennsylvania is taking precautions this month against spongy moths, formerly known as gypsy moths ... The bugs favor oak trees, a tree very common across the Commonwealth, but will eat other ...

These stoic trees aren't too bothered by pests and diseases. While aphids, gypsy moths, oak leaf caterpillars, and other insects inhabit the trees, these pests rarely cause significant damage.

Doug Tallamy, a professor of entomology at the University of Delaware, explains in his book, Bringing Nature Home, that oak trees support an astounding 543 species of Lepidoptera (i.e., moths and ...

It’s the caterpillar stage of the spongy moths, also known to entomologists and lepidopterists as “Lymantria dispar” and formerly as gypsy moths ... a Northern Red Oak tree from spongy ...

A gypsy moth caterpillar crawls along partially eaten leaves of a tree in Trenton, N.J. The spongy moth caterpillar has a yellow and black head, a hairy body with pairs of blue spots, followed by ...

Oak, apple, sweet gum, basswood, birch, aspen and willow trees are most affected by the spongy moth. The Lymantria dispar, or spongy/gypsy moth, was introduced to North America in 1869 at Medford ...

formerly known as the gypsy moth) are a major threat to Pennsylvania’s forests, having killed millions of oak and other tree species, officials said. For the past three years, populations have ...