The annual gypsy moth hunt is under way. The Oregon Department of Agriculture has begun placing thousands of insect traps throughout the state in an effort to detect the insect and other invasive, ...

Washington Department of Agriculture’s Andrew Majeske puts up a gypsy moth trap on Trigg Road east of Ferndale in July 2010. Workers are putting up 16,000 traps in Washington, including in Whatcom ...

MADISON, Wis. -- The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection is once again gearing up to put more than 10,000 spongy moth traps around the state to monitor the species' ...

Researchers from Michigan State University believe they have invented a better—or at least a cheaper—version of the proverbial mouse trap. Except instead of a mouse trap, it's a moth trap. The new ...

The 2016 gypsy moth survey trapping season has ended and results are in: 86,462 moths were caught in 11,383 traps set in Wisconsin this summer as part of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade ...

The annual gypsy moth summer trapping program is under way. By the end of July more than 22,000 small cardboard traps will be placed around the state, checked every two to three weeks during the ...

The Idaho Department of Lands has placed around 130 traps in the trees of the Sandpoint area, in the hopes of ascertaining the level of threat posed by some very hungry caterpillars. The traps are a ...

Researchers from Michigan State University believe they have invented a better -- or at least a cheaper -- version of the proverbial mouse trap. Except instead of a mouse trap, it's a moth trap. The ...