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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As temperatures rise and the days grow longer, Texans may notice an increase in the appearance of silky, web-like structures draped over tree branches. These are the creations of fall webworms, a type ...

“It doesn’t seem as bad as last year, but the fall webworms are back on my trees. What should I do?” — S.F. It’s always a bit of a mystery why some years the fall webworms seem to be everywhere and ...

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.

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BATON ROUGE, La (BRPROUD) – Residents in Louisiana may see webbing on some of their plants this time of year. Those “webs are made by caterpillars of the fall webworm moth,” according to the LSU ...

This summer, I’m getting lots of reports of fall webworms (Hyphantria cunea) showing up in trees and shrubs. This is a common caterpillar that turns into a moth, but they are especially widespread ...