The eastern tent caterpillar normally favors black cherry, choke cherry, scrub apple trees and many species of ornamentals in the family Rosaceae. When numerous, the insect defoliates many other fruit ...

They are distinguished in the larval stage by the following characteristics according to publication E-218 Tent Caterpillars: • Eastern tent caterpillar has a solid white line down the center of ...

Eastern tent caterpillar: When these insects hatch — about the time the redbuds begin to bloom — the caterpillars gather in a nest they weave of silk at the fork of a branch. Prune those nests ...

My research interests concern the behavioral and chemical ecology of social caterpillars. Much of my work has involved tent caterpillars but more recently I have been studying social species occurring ...