The white silk nests that are often destroyed by people are actually an important factor in the life of the eastern tent ...

There have been some sightings of insects causing concerns in areas of western Massachusetts, which some people are saying may be the gypsy moth.

They're the Eastern Tent Caterpillar, the larvae of the tent caterpillar moth. In adulthood they will be brown moths that you'll often see flocking to the nearest light source. 2. But what are ...

The tents consist of numerous layers of dense silk webbing which contain much excrement and numerous molted skins. The female moths are dull reddish-brown with a wing expanse of 1 1/2 to 2 inches.

Mature caterpillars wander away from the “tent” after four to six weeks to search out a location to spin a cocoon, typically in the soil. Adult moths emerge from the cocoon in 3 weeks. Moths mate and ...

“The situation with moths is pretty dire,” says Kawahara. Forest tent caterpillar moth Carla Rhodes There’s one way the public can help, he says. People can volunteer as citizen scientists ...

Tropical tent web spiders may sound scary, but they’re really not, unless you’re a tomato leafminer moth (or maybe another flying insect). The moths have developed resistance to chemical ...

She gets many reports about gypsy moth caterpillars that turn out to be similarly-looking tent caterpillars.Cassandra Day — The Middletown Press Jim Rossi of Durham said he was able to stop an ...