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Eastern tent caterpillar

Malacosoma americanum

Photo by jajohnson
Published on Project Noah
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Eastern tent caterpillar

Malacosoma americanum
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AustinC
If this was found on your land, I would seriously recommend you get strong pesticides. We recently had tent caterpillars, which are invasive, ravage through our tree systems. For the sake of your ecosystem do something!
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PublishedApril 29, 2014

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