Tent Cattepillars

[tyrel]

Scroll down, It gets better...

 

[Gigas]

Lol this story has gone around the entire web almost this evening, i was thinking of putting it up, its pretty amazing isnt it, thousands of them

 

[bugmankeith]

My dream house.... That is amazing, hey for fun buy leaves they like to eat and throw it among the webs and see the caterpillars devour it within minutes!

 

[Waspman]

Man, talk about invasion. Looks like they're in need of wasps for crowd control!

 

[kraken]

looks like some good fishbait goin to waste!

 

[Peter_Parker]

Wow, and I thought the gypsy moth population here was bad...! It's like a big ice web storm hit everything in town!

 

[crashergs]

they eat bark off trees? where the hell are all the birds, im surprised they arent around picking them off, thats natures puppy treat for other animals.

 

[Herp13]

You know it's bad when worms start eating childrens bikes, lol

 

[Dark]

Thats so cool, Wish something like that would happen where i live:}

 

[Arachnobrian]

Seeing the first picture, I wondered hmmm a tree, no big deal, but as soon as I saw the closer shots, wow. The bicycles covered were unreal, can you imagine locking your bike to a tree, returning later that day to find it covered in web and catapillars.

As one person mentioned, where are the birds? When birds finally find this tree, I certainly would not want to park my car anywhere close by. lol

 

[Ganoderma]

wow, that is amazing! things similar to the first few pics can be witnessed in BC. not to far south of you tyrel. i have seen trees similar to those size covered like that. the last few years i have not seen the numbers there used to be on vancouver island or the gulf isls. are they (the gov) spraying? did the aerial gypsy moth sprays affect tent catepillars?

 

[tyrel]

wow, that is amazing! things similar to the first few pics can be witnessed in BC. not to far south of you tyrel. i have seen trees similar to those size covered like that. the last few years i have not seen the numbers there used to be on vancouver island or the gulf isls. are they (the gov) spraying? did the aerial gypsy moth sprays affect tent catepillars?

I think that There is only a big infestation every few years. Mabye five to ten years? I have seen tent catepillar infestations, but nothing like the ones I've posted above!

 

[bugmankeith]

All those caterpillars will soon be moths, talk about a flying invasion!

 

[Jesse607]

They look more like "webworms" to me, than "tent catepillars"?

 

[bugmankeith]

Yes they are tent caterpillars, probably will look like one of these when they get older. (continues on page 2)

 

[bugmankeith]

 

[Jesse607]

Actually upon a closer look, they look more like web-spinning sawfly larvae (Family: Pamphiliidae), than either Lasiocampids (tent-caterpillars) or Arctiids (fall webworm).