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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The unsightly webbing you may have noticed at the branch ends of many landscape trees recently is constructed by the fall webworm. This native pest is often discovered in late summer as they make ...

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 ...

Tree branches, covered in webs. And unless they’re very small, entire trees are not covered, it’s just a limb or two are coated with the creepy webbing. But what is causing the specifically placed ...

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 ...

Even though their name implies that they would most enjoy the months of September and October, we can encounter early instars of the first generation of these pests — Fall Webworms — at this time of ...

Bagworms or webworms – is there a difference? Are both bad? Although it is common for the average homeowner to confuse the two based simply on the name, let’s explore the aspects of these pests, one ...

Fall webworms are always interesting in that some years it seems like they are everywhere, and other years they are pretty sparse. Fortunately, this year seems like one of the sparse years, but none ...