Those webs in the trees are mostly not a return of the gypsy moth, a plague of decades last century that defoliated many trees in the region. You might say the webs are harbingers of fall. They are ...

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 ...

In late summer each year, fall webworms (Hyphantria cunea) become noticeable when they build their highly visible thick white webs on the tips of tree branches. Fall webworms are moths, not worms, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Young bagworm and webworm get started in a tree. The unsightly webbing you may have noticed at the branch ends of many landscape ...

Q: As I drive down the roads recently, I am seeing the ends of small branches on trees covered over by a webby material, and the leaves inside are all tan and dried up. What is this? Hyphantria cunea, ...

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 ...

We have already received our first fall webworm inquiry of the year. Even though their name implies that they would most enjoy the months of September and October, we can encounter early instances of ...

Fall webworms are always interesting in that some years it seems like they are everywhere, and other years they are pretty sparse. Fortunately, this year seems like one of the sparse years, but none ...

Caterpillars of various types are common pests in vegetable gardens, flower beds, trees, shrubs and even lawns all through summer. I’ve been getting an unusually large number of questions about ...

Is it a bagworm or a webworm? These are two common pests that become noticeable on ornamental trees during late summer and early fall. Both are native moths, but the one to worry about is the bagworm, ...

Q: As I drive down the roads recently, I am seeing the ends of small branches on trees covered over by a webby material, and the leaves inside are all tan and dried up. What is this? Hyphantria cunea, ...