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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 ...

Western tent caterpillars and their cocoons covered Skagit County this week. Washington State University Skagit County Extension Entomology Coordinator Charlie Coslor said in an email that a boom in ...

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 ...

A gang of Western tent caterpillars have taken up residence in acres of aspen trees north of Durango in the San Juan National Forest. The insects construct their silken tents on aspen tree branches ...

Rainier and Clatskanie aren’t the only areas seeing an invasion of western tent caterpillars. It looks like the crawling insects have showed up in parts of Cowlitz County as well. Residents of West ...

Hungry hordes of tent caterpillars are leaving acres of aspen bare of leaves across much of Colorado, including a swath of the San Juan National Forest from Vallecito to Beaver Meadows northeast of ...

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 ...

Wiggling masses of white-orange-and-black caterpillars are emerging from their silken nests to munch on tender leaves - signaling a second spring when Western tent caterpillars might be out in big ...

Cloquet's Duane Buytaert remembers the forest tent caterpillar invasions of his childhood with a combination of horror and amazement. The school board member was in school then, but his memories of ...