As is true with quite a few insects, fall webworms overwinter as pupae with each female laying between 400 and 500 eggs typically on the underside of leaves. These eggs are a light green in color.

If the fall webworms are on a smaller tree that allows you to be able to spray the leaves with a home sprayer, you can use an organic pesticide called Bacillus thuringiensis (bT).

Webworms don't have itchy hairs and they also don't bite, making them safe to grab. "Or remove the cocoons, if you see those," Domnich said. The cocoons are spun out of silk and look like a big fuzzy ...

Webworms can be confused with tent caterpillars, which make a silky tent in a crotch of small limbs at the trunk of a fruit or ornamental tree in spring. The protective tent grows larger as the ...

Webworms don't seem to be picky, there are more than 100 species of plants that they're known to feed on, but there are some they prefer. One plant they're especially drawn to is hops-- something ...

Sod webworms are like snakes and people in that they prefer to lounge around hot, south-facing slopes and banks w here conditions are hot and dry. The worms live in tunnels made from turf thatch ...

After this summer’s invasion of gypsy moths, or LDD moths as they are now known, local property owners can now look forward to having their trees covered in web-like material as Fall Webworms ...

Answer: Sod webworms can hitchhike with new sod at this time of the year as eggs in the turf, caterpillars, pupa or moth stages. Growers do a good job of controlling these pests before sending the ...

Sod webworms are the main culprit this year, and fittingly, our weed and turfgrass extension specialist Ron Strahan said, “The numbers are biblical. We have observed nearly every house on a ...

After this summer’s invasion of gypsy moths, or LDD moths as they are now known, local property owners can now look forward to having their trees covered in web-like material as Fall Webworms ...