Use natural repellents like rosemary, thyme, cedar, lavender, or peppermint oil applied to sachets or wood blocks to deter ...

Caterpillars are the most common garden insects. Some are completely harmless, while others can damage crops or deliver painful stings. While you can safely leave most caterpillars alone, some will ...

In the woods of the Lower Cape it sounds like it’s raining. But what’s falling from the sky is not water; it’s gypsy moth feces. The fuzzy brown caterpillars produce little black balls of excrement, ...

Luna moths sightings are rare. The moths themselves are not so much rare as secluded, secretive and short-lived, for these are deep-woods dwelling, night-flying, short-lived moths. In New England, ...

Cindy Burkhardt had been watching a sphinx moth caterpillar in her garden for several days, but then it disappeared. Soon thereafter, she saw another trundling across a dirt road on Rabbit Mountain.

The Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources is alerting residents that nurseries statewide received Canadian boxwood shrubs that may be infested with invasive box tree moths. The moths feed ...