Aerial spray treatments applied this summer to control moth larvae defoliating an increasing number of trees in western ...

When we walked with a colleague into an aspen forest near Madison, Wisconsin, in the early spring of 2021, we expected to ...

Research finds that extensive feeding by invasive insects can cause trees to produce defense compounds, to the detriment of ...

Under most conditions, these defenses keep herbivores from fully defoliating the trees. This spongy moth-induced carnage does not bode well for other insects that depend on aspen for food ...

It’s going to be a long fall.” That’s how Cross County Extension Staff Chair Jenna Martin described the agricultural ...

It produces a class of defense compounds called salicinoids. Under most conditions, these defenses keep herbivores from fully defoliating the trees. Invasive spongy moths (Lymantria dispar) are the ...