If gypsy moth caterpillars have taken over oaks or other trees around your property, you're probably familiar with a "pitter-patter, almost rainfall-like sound," as Tawny Siminsky describes it. She's ...

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, ...

Syracuse, N.Y. -- A plague of gypsy moth caterpillars is munching its way across Upstate New York, turning verdant shade trees into brown skeletons, coating decks and picnic tables with feces, ...