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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...