These are pests of the cool, wet times of spring and early summer. They hang out in moist, mulched beds and they come out to ...

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

In trees, gardens, and even on sidewalks — people across northern B.C. are spotting dark-coloured, fuzzy caterpillars with ...

The 80s were notorious for the infestation of the tent caterpillar. Today, we're seeing another rise in the number of insects ...

A red-eyed vireo is shown harvesting tent-caterpillar nest silk. Non-native flora is generally not suitable for most caterpillars, as the larvae have a scant coevolutionary history with introduced ...

Forest tent caterpillars have been seen feasting on trees throughout Edmonton this year. An outbreak of this magnitude for ...

The subject of this writing is one of our most conspicuous caterpillars, the eastern tent caterpillar (Malacosoma americanum). Almost everyone has noticed them, due to the conspicuous white silken ...

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It is not for nothing that some call the May full moon the Flower Moon. Scarcely have lilacs’ soft shades become passé when ...

The nests belonged to eastern tent caterpillars. While they’re native to the region, the caterpillar numbers spike from time to time. “They do have kind of a boom-and-bust cycle where we see ...