Q: The attached photo shows worms that are on my neighbor’s crabapple tree. She called them army worms, since she had something similar at the lake on an elm. Do you know what they are? — Kristi M. A: ...

Have you noticed colorful caterpillars on your wild cherry, apple or crabapple trees recently? There’s a name for them, apiculture instructor Jon Zawislak at the University of Arkansas System Division ...

Tent caterpillars have been showing up everywhere, with large webs this spring in and around Chester County. Are they dangerous at all, or just unsightly? How do you remove them? Coordinator of Master ...

Have you ever been surprised by large bare patches of dead foliage on your evergreens? If you look closely you might see pendants of dead foliage hanging from the dead twigs. Wait, they’re moving! You ...

The tree in my yard has webbing in some of the branches, and I think I see caterpillars. What should I do? — K.W. The webs you are describing are probably the webs of tent caterpillars. Tent ...

Eastern Tent Caterpillars webs have started popping up in trees. This caterpillar eats the leaves off of trees, especially on wild cherry, apple, and crabapple, although it can also be found on ...

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 ...

Those who have noticed the web-like insect nests popping up in local tree branches may think it is the wrong season for tent caterpillars. That thought would be correct, according Hartwick College ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Eastern tent caterpilllars Q: I have started to see some small, thick webbing in the forks of branches of my flowering cherry ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Entomologists at the University of Kentucky say that the eastern tent caterpillar eggs are beginning to hatch across Central Kentucky. They’re among some of the first insects ...