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 ...

Fall armyworms are making their annual appearance across Oklahoma in various field crops, pasture, and turf. Fall armyworms ...

It always provokes a bit of a negative response to walk full-face into a sticky spiderweb stretching invisibly across some ...

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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 ...

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Rick Lindroth at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that spongy moth caterpillars strip aspen tree foliage, increasing tree defenses and causing harm to a native species.

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