USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is replacing the common name for regulated Lymantria moths. APHIS will replace “gypsy moth” (Lymantria dispar) with “spongy moth” and “Asian gypsy moth” (L. dispar asiatica, L. dispar japonica, L. albescens, L. postalba, and L. umbrosa) with “flighted spongy moth complex.”
The Gypsy Moth Federal Orders web page has been renamed to Spongy Moth Federal Orders and moved to a new location:
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