Large numbers of caterpillars are expected in the 2025 treatment areas. It is likely that many already stressed trees will not be able to withstand additional heavy defoliation and will die.

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But none of these invasive species are as famous as the spongy moth, also known as the gypsy or tent moth ... outside due to the sheer amount of caterpillars munching and excreting on trees.

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It’s the caterpillar stage of the spongy moths, also known to entomologists and lepidopterists as “Lymantria dispar” and formerly as gypsy moths, which can cause the most harm to local trees.

Some families of caterpillars (larvae of butterflies and moths) have developed a specific kind of interaction with ants. One of these families (Riodinidae) includes two species that interact ...

One toad was observed to eat 86 houseflies . . . another ate 65 gypsy moth larvae . . . while still another swallowed 37 adult tent caterpillars! It’s pretty obvious, then, that a biological bug ...

While some caterpillars are harmless and can be handled freely, others are dangerous to touch altogether. Because they produce and inject their toxins into their victims, they are considered venomous ...

Spongy Moths, formerly known as gypsy moths, were originally introduced ... “Essentially what spongy moth caterpillars are doing; they are eating the leaves of trees and the primary ones of ...

In 2021, a total of 203,569 acres were treated. In addition to DCNR’s spray program, the Pennsylvania Game Commission will also be conducting an aerial spray program in 2022 on approximately ...