Tom Schmeelk, an entomologist with the Maine Forest Service, points out where feeding damage from browntail caterpillars is apparent on the leaves of a northern red oak sapling. A fungus knocked back ...

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.

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The spongy moth was introduced to North America in an effort to create a silk industry. Moth populations exploded because it has no natural predators. Officials are spreading a fungus which kills the ...

As temperatures continue to rise due to ongoing climate change, scientists uncovered an unexpected domino effect that could put forests across North America in danger. Researchers from the University ...

Computer models predict that hotter, drier conditions in North America will limit the growth of a fungus that normally curbs the spread of the spongy moth, an invasive species that has caused millions ...

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How ancient gene transfers, genomes, and pollination shaped moths and butterflies - and why their sudden decline is raising ...

Computer models developed by the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory predict that hotter, drier conditions in North America will limit the growth of a fungus that normally curbs the ...