NOUN
- larvae of a gregarious North American moth that spins a web resembling a carpet rather than a tent; serious defoliator of deciduous trees
How To Use forest tent caterpillar In A Sentence
- Within the ground beetle family, a few eat seeds, a few concentrate near water, and some readily climb trees and consume arboreal insects, including aphids and forest tent caterpillars.
- These include spruce budworm, forest tent caterpillar, jack pine budworm (Choristoneura pinus pinus), and gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar). Climate change and insects as a forest disturbance in the Arctic
- Bergeron and Charron associated this phenomenon with the presence of forest tent caterpillar outbreaks, but crown dieback of birch following poor climatic conditions has also been reported.
- Outbreaks of the large aspen tortrix tend to precede those of the forest tent caterpillar.
