Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BATON ROUGE, La (BRPROUD) – Residents in Louisiana may see webbing on some of their plants this time of year. Those “webs are made ...

There have been several calls into the office about the webbing that is showing up on trees. The culprit behind this is a caterpillar called fall webworm. Fall webworm caterpillars build light gray ...

This summer, I’m getting lots of reports of fall webworms (Hyphantria cunea) showing up in trees and shrubs. This is a common caterpillar that turns into a moth, but they are especially widespread ...

The unsightly webbing you may have noticed at the branch ends of many landscape trees recently is constructed by the fall webworm. This native pest is often discovered in late summer as they make ...

CORVALLIS —Silken caterpillar nests that look like cobwebs have begun to appear in deciduous trees. The gauzy-looking tents at the end of tree branches are most likely fall webworm caterpillars ...

This image shows the protective webbing made by a colony of small leaf-eating worms, called fall webworms. The colony will construct a tough silk net on the end of a tree branch in late summer. These ...

As you've been driving around York County, especially along Interstate 83, you might have noticed thick webs in some of the trees. Some trees are covered with the nests while others only have a few. A ...

Silken, web-like nests are a common site this time of year and are a signal of fall’s arrival. The fall webworm is a web-spinning caterpillar that likes to make its presence known every fall. While ...

Perhaps you have been noticing the gauzy materials wrapped around the end of some of the branches of your deciduous trees. These webs of material are caused by the Fall Webworm (Hyphantria cunea) ...

Around this time of year, you will begin to notice trees containing unsightly webbing, especially pecan trees. The webs often contain fall web­worms, a perennial pest of several trees across North ...

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BATON ROUGE, La (BRPROUD) – Residents in Louisiana may see webbing on some of their plants this time of year. Those “webs are made by caterpillars of the fall webworm moth,” according to the LSU ...