Healers have treated their patients with silk throughout history. Now they're harnessing its strength, biocompatibility, and ...

Samples of female spongy moths and larvae — part of a hundred year old collection at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven. The female moths have wings but are flightless.

At Shakespear Regional Park on the Whangaparāoa Peninsula north of Auckland, the local “moth plant lady” spots a great grandmother in a thicket. This moth plant has thick, woody vines.

Recently, a gene called oscar, in the bacterium Wolbachia, was implicated in killing male corn borer moths by interfering with moth genes that control sex determination and proper dosage of ...

The demo of a Yamaha Phaser R drone was holding a tank of pesticide that was primed to short-circuit the mating behavior of navel orangeworm moths, which is the primary pest for almond orchards in ...

Plans to spray for spongy moths in five Minnesota counties have been scrapped after the federal funding for the aerial treatments didn’t come through. The Minnesota Department of Agriculture ...

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture planned to apply an insecticide called Btk to 12 areas throughout the state to fight the spongy moth, whose voracious appetite is devastating to forests.

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture(MDA) says it can not move forward with a proposed management plan in 12 areas for its spongy moths after it was unable to secure federal funding.

WINONA, Minn. — The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection (DATCP) added La Crosse County to the state and federal spongy moth quarantine last week. They warned that ...

It’s that time of year when pesky moths start to flutter around our homes – and munch our woollens. So if you don’t want to find your precious cashmere jumper full of holes – or your favou ...

It's that time of the year again: stinging caterpillar season. Furry buck moth caterpillars, armed with hollow spines attached to their venom sac, are slowly emerging throughout the state.