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 ...

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

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 ...

Some birds, like the red-eyed vireo, utilize the silk from tent caterpillar nests for building their own nests. 'Tis the season for caterpillar overreaction. Before we get to the protagonist of ...

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

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 ...

A tent caterpillar pictured in front of the Two Rivers Art Gallery in downtown Prince George. (Hanna Petersen) The last caterpillar population boom in the region happened during the spring and ...

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 ...