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Officials issue PSA after spotting highly invasive species capable of wiping out entire forests: 'The most destructive defoliators in North America'
These compounds are toxic to insects, and researchers fed the leaves to native caterpillars of the polyphemus moth to see how they'd react. Only 18% of the caterpillars survived, with the rate of ...
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Officials discover highly invasive 'spongy moth' wreaking havoc on trees: 'I knew right then that we were doomed'
The researchers changed course to study the impact of the spongy moth on the native polyphemus silk moth, which feeds in mid- ...