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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Caterpillars are defoliating aspen groves along N.M. 475, the road to the Santa Fe ski basin, the U.S. Forest Service says, but damage to the trees that form one of the Santa Fe National Forest’s most ...

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 ...

Tent caterpillars attack several species of broadleaf trees and shrubs, producing unsightly webs, or tents. When their populations become large, the caterpillars can defoliate trees, stunting their ...

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 ...