A few days ago in the garden, I spotted a small but very attractive insect. It was slim, around three quarters of an inch long and had a striking orange and black pattern that was hard to miss. I have ...

This beautiful little insect is a webworm moth named Ailanthus Moth. It has a flower design on its outer wings. It is native to North America but is now associated with a tree brought to America from ...

Nancy Kent of Radford shares this photo and writes, "An Ailanthus Webworm moth is as colorful as a butterfly or a beetle and flies during the day. This one is enjoying a Cup Plant in Wildwood." ...

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 ...