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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The transition from summer to fall is a time of football games, mums, changing leaf color, and dead patches in the lawn. That latter event is often the work of one of Pennsylvania’s most common – and ...

I got a text message from a neighbor that was worried about some strange nests in her neighbor’s trees. She was worried it may be a hornets’ nest, but the problem is fall webworms. Fall webworms ...