ACT NOW TO STOP A TENT CATERPILLAR INVASION.(Life and Arts)(NORTHWEST GARDENS)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | February 13, 2003 | Copyright

Byline: ANN LOVEJOY COLUMNIST

LAST SUMMER many Seattle area gardeners experienced an invasion of tent caterpillars. These crunching, munching little buggers make themselves a campsite in our gardens by weaving saggy, baggy, dirty-white "tents" in trees and shrubs.

In early to mid summer, the tents open and out pour hundreds of hungry baby caterpillars. Voracious feeders, a big population of tent caterpillars can strip a mature tree in days. Among their favorite targets are alder, cascara, wild cherry and birch trees, though fruit trees also are ...

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