It's no secret that dealing with pests in the backyard is part and parcel of being a gardener. It can be a nuisance to see ...

The Lymantria dispar, or spongy/gypsy moth, was introduced to North America in 1869 at Medford, Mass., where it was used in a failed silk-production experiment.

There wasn’t much time to mourn the end of the Red Sox baseball season before a myriad of other things replaced any lingering ...

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Despite being widely popular, moths, and their larvae in particular, are not always welcome in forests, parks and gardens.

These chemicals can be used to trap or manage pests like the gypsy moth, which has destroyed more than a million acres of forest per year in the United States since 1980. The next time you hear ...

For example, the gypsy moth, a native of Europe and Asia, wreaks havoc on great swaths of forest lands by defoliating, or eating the leaves off of trees. At first, highly toxic chemicals, which also ...

These days roughly 80 percent of New England is wooded, but over 99 percent of the trees were planted within the last 100 ...

Is there hope for our forests? In colonial days, wood was a hot commodity in New England. It was so widely used for ...

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Gypsy-Rose Blanchard made a new style choice more than halfway through her pregnancy. On Monday, Sept. 16, the expectant mother, 33, shared a photo to her Instagram Stories showing off her baby ...