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 ...

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 ...

I got a text message from a neighbor that was worried about some strange nests in her neighbor’s trees. She was worried it may be a hornets’ nest, but the problem is fall webworms. Fall webworms ...

That’s how I answer the telephone lately, given the volume of calls about both. I assume everyone knows about the 4-H sweet potato fundraiser by now, so let’s address the latter. This season, for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some of my trees are showing signs of fall webworms. What can I do to eliminate these without chemicals? Although fall webworms are unsightly, they do not pose a significant threat to mature trees, ...

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 ...