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 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 ...

Q: I have started to see some small, thick webbing in the forks of branches of my flowering cherry tree. What’s causing that and what should I do about it? Tent caterpillars can damage young trees ...

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 ...

Two species of tent caterpillars are important tree pests in New York State. About every decade they become numerous enough in local outbreaks to cause concern. At times the epidemics reach statewide ...

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, are native to North America and are noticed mainly because of the silken tents they build in the forks and crotches of trees in early spring.While ...

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