They are still alive. It’s kind of amazing; trees have adapted to deal with outbreaks of these kinds of pests,” said Cate ...

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Nearly a third of the forest canopy across Massachusetts has been consumed this year by a plague of gypsy moth caterpillars, finger-long creatures whose insatiable appetite for leaves can ...

The last large outbreak of budworm occurred in 2015 and left 118,000 acres of pines defoliated. In 2022 when the current budworm outbreak likely began, 28,000 acres of pines were defoliated.

“When trees are defoliated like this right at this time of year, they are using reserves that are in the trunk and in the roots to put out a second flush of growth,” said Brian ...

You may be familiar with spongy moths, formerly known as gypsy moths, destroying foliage across Pennsylvania. But there is a native worm that can also cause significant damage in certain parts of ...

US aircraft sprayed 20 million gallons of herbicides across Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Dioxin, a contaminant in Agent Orange, persists today. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

In certain parts of the state, you can’t miss the invasive caterpillars munching their way through the forest, just as they did last summer — when they defoliated 50,000 acres in New Hampshire.

The patch of defoliated trees near Little East Lake just east of the Canadian border was a sign the native budworm population had grown so large that its consumption of fir and spruce needles was ...