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Fall Webworm Hyphantria cunea (Drury, 1773) is a moth of a wingspan of 25-30 mm; forewings and hindwings are white and covered by dark spots. After World War II, Fall Webworm was brought from North America to Central Europe (Hungary, Austria, former Yugoslavia), from where it has successively colonized other countries.
The fall webworm (Hyphantria cunea) is a moth in the family Erebidae known principally for its larval stage, which creates the characteristic webbed nests on the tree limbs of a wide variety of hardwoods in the late summer and fall. It is considered a pest but does not harm otherwise healthy trees.
15 wrz 2017 · The fall webworm (Hyphantria cunea) is the caterpillar stage of a rather inconspicuous white moth. Its small size belies the damage it does or, should I say, they do, for they are very gregarious and live in colonies: often huge webbed nests filled with skeletonized leaves and droppings and 2 to 3 hundred creepy crawlers.
The fall webworm (Hyphantria cunea) is a moth in the family Erebidae known principally for its larval stage, which creates the characteristic webbed nests on the tree limbs of a wide variety of hardwoods in the late summer and fall. It is considered a pest but does not harm otherwise healthy trees.
The fall webworm caterpillar that thrives in groups mostly encounters any threat by shaking, jerking, or even stinging with their hairs or spines. Considered a pest, they are known to damage portions of the tree where they make their branches and defoliate leaves, but not kill them.
5 wrz 2023 · Adult: wings either all white (in northern and some southern individuals) or sparsely to heavily marked with dark grayish-brown to black spots (in many southern individuals); spots rectangular or wedge-shaped, arranged loosely in rows in basal half of wing, and in either a V-shape or more-or-less random arrangement in distal half; ventral side o...
8 mar 2017 · The fall webworm, Hyphantria cunea (Drury) (Lepidoptera: Erebidae), is a widespread defoliator that is native throughout the continental United States, as well as southern Canada and northern Mexico. It has been introduced accidentally into many parts of Europe and Asia.
