People in northern B.C. have been noticing more and more tent caterpillars and a local bug expert says the next outbreak ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Eastern tent caterpillars are a native species that create noticeable silken nests in trees, primarily black cherry trees. While they may cause temporary defoliation, they do not kill trees and ...