That means when the time is right, plenty of swallowtail caterpillars are searching for food. Swallowtail caterpillars eat plants of the birthwort, citrus, carrot, and custard-apple families.

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If you live along the coast of Maine south into Massachusetts and west of Boston you have likely noticed small green caterpillars ... trees, cherry trees, crab apple trees. I have seen them eating ...

Flowers emerge in late summer ... pictures I believe the problem with your tree is that you have had an outbreak of the pest known as the bark-eating caterpillar (Indarbela quadrinotata) that ...

The past several weeks have seen a voracious moth caterpillar eat its way through ... infesting their trees. One neighbour wrote: “The caterpillars were over everything in our yard and stripped all ...

Winter moth caterpillars eat holes in the leaves, blossom and developing fruitlets of many tree fruits ... Early damage on apple fruitlets causes a deep cleft in the side of the fruits to develop ...

The eastern tent caterpillars also like to feed on wild cherry, apple, hawthorn, cherry, peach, pear and plum trees. It's easy to spot, with its black body, a white stripe down the back, and brown and ...

When caterpillars reach two inches, they start eating most leaf surface area, about a square foot a day, Cole said. While their favorite snacks are oak trees, they also like maple and apple trees.

The past several weeks have seen a voracious moth caterpillar eat ... trees. One neighbour wrote: “The caterpillars were over everything in our yard and stripped all our fruit trees, taking the ...