One example is box tree moth traps, that can be placed around the plants. These products contain the pheromone of a female box tree moth and male specimens will be attracted and get stuck inside ...

The box tree moth, an invasive species from East Asia, poses a significant threat to boxwood shrubs in Michigan. The moth caterpillars can defoliate a boxwood within a single season and eventually ...

The Box Tree Moth (BTM) caterpillars are green and hairy, with black stripes and white dots. They grow to about 1 to 2 inches. Adults are white with a thick brown border on the wings and are active at ...

Originally native to East Asia, box tree caterpillars were ... been affected are advised to deploy pheromone traps in order to help determine when the moths are present, in order to then look ...

Box tree moth larvae and webbing. Box tree moths overwinter as larvae. Once temperatures rise, overwintering larvae emerge and typically begin feeding in March, continuing until they pupate in late ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The Ohio Department of Agriculture has expanded its quarantine for the invasive box tree moth to include Hamilton, Butler, Warren, and Clermont counties. This measure comes in ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 81, No. 1 (Mar., 1998), pp. 98-104 (7 pages) Females of the Corn earworm moth, Helicoverpa zea Boddie, were induced to produce sex pheromone during the photophase, when ...

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the box tree moth originated in East Asia, and it's become a big problem. Local Arbiter Jeremy Hertz, owner of Family Tree Doctor, said the bug can ...