The Pa. DCNR has planned a rare spraying for fall cankerworms as well as for spongy moths across Pennsylvania. Here's why and ...

The Pa. Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) will be spraying for invasive spongy moths, formerly known as gypsy moths, and also for native fall cankerworms. Both insects are ...

County officials are preparing to fight an unexpected increase in cankerworms this spring with the aerial spraying of pesticide on trees in sections of southern Fairfax. The Board of Supervisors ...

That’s what some people and homeowners are experiencing in southwestern Pennsylvania. Fall cankerworms are chewing on the leaves and then descending by a silky-like thread to the ground.

Adult cankerworms will emerge from the soil at two different times of the year, he said. Spring cankerworms will emerge in the spring and fall cankerworms will emerge in the fall. There are ...

You may be familiar with spongy moths, formerly known as gypsy moths, destroying foliage across Pennsylvania. But there is a native worm that can also cause significant damage in certain parts of ...

Tent caterpillars and cankerworms arrived a bit earlier and are eating their way through the leaves on the city's trees. Today, City of Regina crews were out spraying after getting a lot of ...

If you notice tiny holes appearing and spreading in the foliage to the point where the entire leaf is gone after a few weeks, look for signs of cankerworms. These caterpillars are about an inch ...

Fall cankerworms are smaller than spongy moth caterpillars but have been known to defoliate a variety of trees. This spring, the little worms have been eating leaves on trees in southwestern ...

The old sparrow alighted upon the small veran la of the sparrow-house with four living cankerworms in his beak. Then the four young ones put out their heads, with the customary noise, and were fed ...

Also known as cankerworms or geometer caterpillars, the critters' tiny strands are the method they've evolved to make it from the tree canopy, where they chow down on leaves, to the ground ...