Have you ever been surprised by large bare patches of dead foliage on your evergreens? If you look closely you might see pendants of dead foliage hanging from the dead twigs. Wait, they’re moving! You ...
Tent caterpillars have been showing up everywhere, with large webs this spring in and around Chester County. Are they dangerous at all, or just unsightly? How do you remove them? Coordinator of Master ...
Eastern tent caterpillars, Malacosoma Americanum, are native to North America and are noticed mainly because of the silken tents they build in the forks and crotches of trees in early spring. While ...
They're creepy, crawly, furry little pests. And they're back, in droves. Forest tent caterpillars -- army worms -- are already emerging from egg masses around the area and are expected to make their ...
Two species of tent caterpillars are important tree pests in New York State. About every decade they become numerous enough in local outbreaks to cause concern. At times the epidemics reach statewide ...
*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Eastern tent caterpilllars Q: I have started to see some small, thick webbing in the forks of branches of my flowering cherry ...
PARK RAPIDS, Minn. -- An invasion of forest tent caterpillars from Hubbard County (Minn.) and around the state has now found its way to city trees. The one-inch black worms are crawling up the walls ...
A gang of Western tent caterpillars have taken up residence in acres of aspen trees north of Durango in the San Juan National Forest. The insects construct their silken tents on aspen tree branches ...
During our long growing season, I get calls about caterpillars in trees and what to do about them. Caterpillars, the larvae of moths and butterflies, use tree leaves as a source of food. In turn, many ...
Rainier and Clatskanie aren’t the only areas seeing an invasion of western tent caterpillars. It looks like the crawling insects have showed up in parts of Cowlitz County as well. Residents of West ...
COLLETON COUNTY, S.C. (WCIV) — Tons of forest tent caterpillars (Malacosoma disstria) are showing up in the Lowcountry, specifically in Colleton, Jasper, and Beaufort counties. These caterpillars were ...