The tent caterpillar has a single life cycle each year. The caterpillars hatch and form nests in the spring. The tent-like nests are protection for the little caterpillars. The caterpillars will ...

"There's no part of the life cycle that actually harms the tree," said Weston Miller, community and urban horticulturist with the . "Even in a small tree, it doesn't kill it." The tent caterpillar ...

Tent caterpillar populations eventually collapse ... Another significant natural control occurs near the end of the outbreak cycle when a parasitic native fly kills many pupae in their cocoons.

Each year, black and brown fuzzy caterpillars show up across Anacortes, but this year's arrival was so large that it caused some concern for many residents. As the numbers of caterpillars kept ...

The keys to eliminating tent caterpillars are identifying them early and accurately, understanding their life cycle, and using appropriate cultural or chemical control measures. In late spring to ...

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 ...

The moths lay eggs, renewing the cycle. Barbara Stark and her family moved to Duluth in 2000, just as the forest tent caterpillars - sometimes called army worms, which are a separate species ...

Western tent caterpillars and their cocoons covered Skagit County this week. Washington State University Skagit County Extension Entomology Coordinator Charlie Coslor said in an email that a boom ...

The forest tent caterpillar is a native insect and has ... Another significant natural control occurs near the end of the outbreak cycle. A parasitic fleshfly native to Minnesota, Sarcophaga ...