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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Big yuck factor Forest tent caterpillars (sometimes wrongly called army worms, which are a different species) often emit a greenish-black fluid when disturbed that stains paint and clothing. During ...

*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 ...

Getting outside this Saturday meant more company than normal. In the morning, I took my brother-in-law, Mark, on a quick four-mile day hike up the North Shore. Later that afternoon, Mark and I and my ...