Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Their long, silken, almost delicate tent-like structures fool an onlooker into thinking all is benign. It isn’t.

Desert tortoise Mojave Max is great and all, but the real harbingers of spring in the desert are wispy clumps of what look like windblown trash caught in the brush around Las Vegas. Look closely and ...

SKAGIT COUNTY, Wash. — The Western Tent caterpillar population has recently exploded on Guemes Island, with some residents even saying they're shoveling the insects off driveways and walkways. The ...

Alias: The western tent caterpillar is in the moth family. The larvae emerge in late spring, and has a distinct hairy beard running around the entire girth of the caterpillar. These tiny little ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE)– It appears the western tent caterpillar that feasted on the Santa Fe National Forest in 2015 is back for more, and this year it’s not alone. The western spruce budworm is there ...

Rainier and Clatskanie aren’t the only areas seeing an invasion of western tent caterpillars. It looks like the crawling insects have showed up in parts of Cowlitz County as well. Residents of West ...

Western tent caterpillars might not be on your mind every year, but during their peak outbreaks, they’re impossible to ignore—hairy larvae wriggling across roads and swarms of caterpillars climbing ...

In the Sangre de Cristo Mountains near Santa Fe, gray-limbed patches of aspens stand out among the evergreens surrounding the Big Tesuque Campground. Nearby crawl the reason for the denuded trees: ...

1. Epizootics of nucleopolyhedrovirus (NPV) are an obvious component of the population fluctuations of several species of temperate forest Lepidoptera, including the western tent caterpillar, ...

Wiggling masses of white-orange-and-black caterpillars are emerging from their silken nests to munch on tender leaves - signaling a second spring when Western tent caterpillars might be out in big ...