A horde of Douglas-fir tussock moths, Orgyia pseudotsugata, were eating its needles, filling the air with fragrance of spruce needles. It was an alarming and fascinating sight. Thousands of colorful ...

“A large caterpillar can eat a square foot of foliage a day.” Some 300 species of trees are on the menu, including oak, maple, apple, crabapple, hickory, birch, pine, spruce and willow.

The story goes like this: moths laying eggs in hanging weblike nests that drop to the ground when they have served their purpose, larva hatching out and eating pines trees to death and toxic ...

The opportunistic caterpillars feed on the leaves of up to 500 different plants, but are particularly fond of abundant and popular Upstate trees such as oak, maple, crabapple, willow, birch, pine ...

Discover the amazing silk moths you can expect to find in the garden. See photos of silk moths and learn facts about these ...

Nest of the pine eating caterpillar (Photo: Kitasweather) Cyprus Tuesday 11 April 2023 ... The caterpillar, although considered a nuisance, eats the pine needles, leaving the tree bare, ...

Gypsy moth caterpillars crawl on a tree outside London, Ont., in 2020. ... "It also eats maple and beech, and it'll even eat some of the softwood species such as white pine and balsam fir and ...

Caterpillars hatch in the fall, eat pine needles ... To enjoy the butterflies up close, find a pine tree on a warm day in the next week or so, before the adults die off.

Spongy moth feces is seen on Deb Langlois' grill in her backyard Monday, June 6, 2022 in Ballston Spa, N.Y. Palenville resident Sourabh Bora first noticed a spongy moth caterpillar infestation in ...