A female Malacosoma disstria will lay 300 eggs in one go, adhering them to twigs, where they are tempting snacks for other creatures.

Some people have mistaken this worm for the forest tent caterpillar, Malacosoma disstria, however, they are not the same beast. Forest tent caterpillars occur in spring and early summer whereas the ...

WHAT IS A TENT CATERPILLAR? Tent caterpillars are described as: "Forest tent caterpillars (FTC) (Malacosoma disstria) and eastern tent caterpillars (ETC) (Malacosoma americanum) are native to New York ...

WHAT IS A TENT CATERPILLAR? Tent caterpillars are described as: "Forest tent caterpillars (FTC) (Malacosoma disstria) and eastern tent caterpillars (ETC) (Malacosoma americanum) are native to New York ...

MADISON, Wis. -- The Madison Police Department is investigating after a body was located on the city's east side Sunday night.

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 ...

This thesis aims to investigate different trophic interactions related to the outbreaking cycles of the forest tent caterpillar (Malacosoma disstria), both top-down and bottom-up, in the two types of ...

Interestingly, this year’s tent caterpillar outbreak in the islands is different from the last one in 2012 in one important respect: in some areas, a second species, the forest tent caterpillar ...

The forest tent caterpillar moth (Malacosoma disstria) is a moth found throughout North America, especially in the eastern regions. Unlike related tent caterpillar species, the larvae of forest tent ...