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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
If you've spotted large webs in trees along Ohio highways, the culprit may not be what you think. Fall webworms, which are native insects, typically become more apparent in late summer and early fall, ...
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 ...
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 ...