During our long growing season, I get calls about caterpillars in trees and what to do about them. Caterpillars, the larvae of moths and butterflies, use tree leaves as a source of food. In turn, many ...

Look around your yard and you may notice the appearance of webbing in the branch crotch of some of your trees. Look closer and you will notice this webbing is filled with small caterpillars. This is ...

There will be some very confused moths this summer in some parts of Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kendall and other Illinois counties. And that’s good news for trees. The insects are spongy moths (Lymantria ...

An invasive caterpillar species is posing a serious threat to a cherished native moth, even though the two never directly compete for food, according to new research from ecologists at the University ...

An insect that can be hazardous to human health is spreading across southeast England. Caterpillars of the oak processionary moth are becoming more common as rising temperatures help them to spread to ...

They're nature's "literal" party poopers, according to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. And this spring, the spongy moth has reared its hungry caterpillar head, chomping through the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There will be some very confused moths this summer in some parts of Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kendall and other Illinois counties. And ...

ASHLAND, Wis. - The pitter-patter sound in Wisconsin forests these days may not be rain drops. On a recent walk through a Bayfield County forest, no rain was falling, but the falling droppings of ...

Drive around the state and you may be seeing tree crews in action. Many of them, contractors for Eversource Connecticut, are trimming trees damaged by the voracious appetites of gypsy moth ...