It is the time of the year when you might be thinking of snuggling up with hot chocolate and your favorite book, but female cankerworm moths are hard at work – laying the foundation for an invasion ...

Throughout the past month or so, defoliation has been occurring to a degree that has not been seen in Northern Utah in about a dozen years. The culprit? Creepy-crawler insects known as fall ...

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Steve Frank, an assistant professor of entomology at NC State. You can learn more about the Cankerworm Project here, and keep up with Steve’s entomological pest ...

Controlling cankerworms is tricky, but on a foggy Friday, entomologist Steve Frank and his colleagues head out on their weekly mission: preventing the cankerworm, an annoying pest, from defoliating ...

Fall cankerworms are a native pest in Pennsylvania that can defoliate and potentially kill hardwood trees. Outbreaks of the pest typically last for two to three years before the population naturally ...

WAXHAW, N.C.,None — Cankerworms are invading Union County, forestry officials said. The cankerworm population has exploded there in the last few weeks. Tom Dobbins is worried about his big oak trees ...

Later this month, the Fairfax County Forest Pest Management Branch is scheduled to spray 2,200 acres of the Mason, Lee and Mount Vernon districts with insecticide in order to rid these areas of fall ...