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Illinois Battles Invasive Spongy Moth: Aerial Pheromone Treatment and Open Houses Launched in Northern Regions
The Illinois Department of Agriculture is launching a pheromone-based treatment program against the invasive Spongy Moth, ...
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Researchers Discover a Rare, Carnivorous Caterpillar That Wears Dead Insect Parts to Fool Spiders
The species, dubbed the "bone collector," belongs to an ancient lineage of moths older than the Hawaiian island of Oahu, ...
These newly discovered rare caterpillars eat each other and cover themselves with bones
Scientists in Hawaii have discovered a new, extremely rare species: carnivorous, bone-collecting caterpillars, that live in ...
Warning over poisonous invasive species smothering Aussie orchards: 'Real threat'
Australia's largest citrus-growing region is under attack from an invasive 'jumbo weed' that is smothering orange trees and ...
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Coon Rapids Faces Emergency Quarantine as Aerial Spraying Canceled Amid Spongy Moth Threat
MDA revised its spongy moth control strategy in Coon Rapids due to federal fund delays, canceling May aerial spraying, and ...
Meet the 'Bone Collector' Caterpillar: A Rare Hawaiian Insect That Wears Its Prey and Lives Among Spiders
Living within about six square miles on the island of Oʻahu, scientists say the bone-collector caterpillar may be one of the ...
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This fungus targets invasive spongy moths. Could climate change alter their dynamic?
The invasive spongy moth, a destroyer of northeastern forests, has a natural foe in a Japanese fungus that needs certain ...
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State Game Lands set for spraying that tricks these caterpillars into an early death
The Pennsylvania Game Commission says spraying is planned for 16 State Game Lands to combat the spongy moth, formerly the ...
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This fungus targets invasive spongy moths. Could climate change alter their dynamic?
The black, bristly caterpillars raining down on him were young spongy moth larvae. They’re a longstanding invasive insect ... on webs of interaction among species are hard to think through ...