U.S. bug experts are dropping the name gypsy moth because it is considered an ethnic slur. They are doing the same for gypsy ants. The announcement is the first time the Entomological Society of ...

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture will use a management technique called mating disruption to slow the spread of the spongy moth, a highly destructive invasive insect.

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The Baculovirus Can Be Used to Deliver a Beneficial Engineered Gene into a Cultured Insect Cell and Express a Therapeutic Protein or Antibody The U.S. Forest service notes that, “the gypsy moth, ...