The sight of dozens of caterpillars wriggling and squirming inside of what looks like a spider web tent in a crotch of the branches is gross, no doubt, but the critters are more unsightly than ...

Tent caterpillars inside a tree tent (Third party submitted) STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- If any cherry trees or ornamental fruit trees in your neighborhood have suddenly lost the leaves that were just ...

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.

Emerging caterpillars spin the unsightly webs around branches and then eat the leaves inside. If you can reach the tents, though, this pest is easy to control.

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.

Eastern tent caterpillars spend the winter in egg masses that are in shiny brown bands around twigs. The hungry caterpillars hatch in the early spring about the time tree buds start to open, and ...

If you like to get shade from that tree in your yard, you might soon be at odds with a hungry caterpillar. It’s feeding time for the Eastern Tent Caterpillar. You may have noticed them setting ...

Last summer many Seattle area gardeners experienced an invasion of tent caterpillars. These crunching, munching little buggers make themselves a campsite in our gardens by weaving saggy, baggy ...

Eastern tent caterpillars prefer to eat the young leaves of the black cherry tree, which is native to most of the Eastern United States. Healthy leaves of cherry trees contain prunasin, a cyanide ...

Purinton said he’s been hit more than once by forest tent caterpillar outbreaks since he began his sugarbush in the late 1970s. The most recent infestation before this one was around 2010.

Eastern tent caterpillars, which are native, are specialists, and most nests are in black cherry trees, although some other members of the rose family may be used.

Eastern tent caterpillars, Malacosoma americanum, emerge from eggs and create tents in the spring. They will feed on leaves for 6-8 weeks before spinning cocoons, and emerging as moths in late ...