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 ...

Drive through any neighborhood in the metropolitan area in autumn and you'll probably see the fall webworm's unsightly webbed homes, or tents, in the trees. Webworms, officially known as Hyphantria ...

IT IS NOT difficult to spot the ugly nests of the fall webworm this time of year. The fall webworm is a native pest of trees and shrubs. It makes its appearance in late summer to early fall and ...

We have some trees on our property that are loaded with webs on the ends of the branches. What is this and will it harm the trees? -- Matt B., South Brunswick A. The webs you describe are caused by an ...

Purdue Landscape Report: Just after the browned leaves on branches of trees attacked by periodical cicadas began to disappear from view, webworms and their associated browning started to spread ...

If you see webs being formed around the tips of branches as well as defoliation under the webbing in your pecan, hickory, persimmon and sweet gum trees, they are probably infested with fall webworms.

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 ...

Masses of webbing on the ends of tree branches in your yard and along the roadsides are the work of the fall webworm, a species of caterpillar native to our region. Fall webworm outbreaks occur every ...

Step outside just about anywhere in Louisiana right now and you’re likely to spot dozens of hairy, white caterpillars crawling around. Sometimes, you may even see one fall from overhead, seemingly out ...

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, ...

The next expected but unwelcome visitor to your landscape may be the Hyphantria cunea (Drury) or fall webworm. This native pest feeds on about 90 deciduous trees from hickory to crabapple. Though ...