The tent caterpillars tend to go in cycles. They’ll be prevalent for a few years before dying back down. They have a number of natural predators including birds, wasps and beetles.

The tent caterpillar's life cycle takes a year to complete, with the eggs overwintering in a Styrofoam-like egg case that is glued to tree branches. As leaf buds begin to open, ...

Each year, black and brown fuzzy caterpillars show up across Anacortes, ... Tent caterpillar invasion is on normal cycle, experts say. By Briana Alzola [email protected]; ...

Admittedly, Kathy Carlson of Duluth doesn't know very much about forest tent caterpillars. But she does know she never wants to see one again. Consider her wish (partially) granted. The Minnesota ...

DULUTH-Forest tent caterpillar numbers crashed in 2014, a year they should have multiplied, surprising forest pest experts but leaving residents and visitors of northern forests grateful and their ...

Eastern tent caterpillars are an important part of their life cycle during the time they spend in northerly breeding, such as Ohio. Naturalist Jim McCormac writes a column for The Dispatch on the ...

o The forest tent caterpillar is a native defoliator of a wide variety of hardwood trees and shrubs. It is often mistakenly called the armyworm. o Its range in North America extends from coast to ...

Eastern tent caterpillars are an important part of their life cycle during the time they spend in northerly breeding, such as Ohio. Advertisement.

Western tent caterpillars and their cocoons covered Skagit County this week. ... Western tent caterpillar population booms as part of natural cycle. EMMA FLETCHER-FRAZER @Emma_SVH. Emma Fletcher ...

Eastern tent caterpillars should not to be confused with the forest tent caterpillars that can chew away millions of acres of foliage during springs with severe outbreaks.

Tent caterpillars irrupt in cycles that follow a 20-30 year pattern, and are one of nature’s ways of controlling the prolific ...

Eastern tent caterpillars are an important part of their life cycle during the time they spend in northerly breeding, such as Ohio. Naturalist Jim McCormac writes a column for The Dispatch on the ...