The invasive spongy moth, a destroyer of northeastern forests, has a natural foe in a Japanese fungus that needs certain ...

Fall armyworms have spread throughout the world, destroying crops and evolving insecticide resistance. New research in ...

Scientists study a natural fungus that may help eradicate the armyworm pest, which has spread to 80 countries and destroys ...

Spongy moths are an invasive defoliating pest that threatens the health of forests. The Department of Agriculture says there ...

It sounds like something out of a horror film, but that's actually what happens to a certain type of baby moth. The fungus eats its way through the helpless moth larvae and then sprouts out of ...

With this natural control mechanism weakening, spongy moth populations could skyrocket, leading to widespread destruction of ...

The clothes moths belong to a family of the Lepidoptera known as the Tineidae - the fungus moths, which mainly feed on detritus, fungi and lichens. The larvae of clothes moths are adapted to feed on ...

In 1989, though, another non-native organism became a game changer in the fight against the spongy moth. A killer fungus The fungus Entomophaga maimaiga is from Japan, and it’s unclear how it ...