It's no secret that dealing with pests in the backyard is part and parcel of being a gardener. It can be a nuisance to see curious critters takeover your carefully curated planting and cause damage.

The bacterial insecticide — nontoxic to people, animals and bees — can only be applied during a short period in the spring, ...

There is only a small window of time in the spring when the pesticide is effective at killing the invasive caterpillars — ...

The plan would treat approximately 17,328 acres of land in the greater Eastern Panhandle, including the counties of Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral, and Morgan Counties which are an area of ...

In a press release, PGC Chief Forester Paul Weiss described the moth, formerly known as the gypsy moth, as “a destructive, invasive pest.” PGC plans to spray over 123,000 acres of state game ...

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.