The proposal would increase the spongy moth suppression millage from 0.30 mill to 0.40 mill, or 40 cents per $1,000 of taxable valuation. For example an owner of a house with a valuation of ...

For more than a century after that initial outbreak, spongy moths spread at a rate of about 13 miles per year through New England, the Mid-Atlantic, the Midwest, and parts of the South, feasting ...

The westward miller moth migration — a familiar yet short-lived nuisance — may be prolonged by damp weather after an unprecedented month of rain in the state, and specifically in Colorado Springs.