A huge outbreak of gypsy moth caterpillars has been reported from New York state where these insects are gorging on leaves and dropping excrement. Residents across the region have reported ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Bug experts are dropping the common name of ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Property owners with maple, pine, aspen, and oak trees are still seeing their land under attack by an invasive and hungry bug. Yet natural and manmade barriers may be able to ...

Bug experts are dropping the common name of a destructive insect because it’s considered an ethnic slur: the gypsy moth. The Entomological Society of America, which oversees the common names of bugs, ...