tent caterpillar

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Definition of tent caterpillar in English English dictionary: Any of several destructive caterpillars of the family Lasiocampidae, especially of the genus Malacosoma, whose colonies construct silken tentlike webs in the branches of trees. Any moth larva of the genus Malacosoma(family Lasiocampidae). Tent caterpillars are often brightly coloured. Congregations of the eastern tent caterpillar (M. americanum) of eastern North America spin huge, tent-shaped communal nests in forked tree branches. Eggs the moth deposits on a tree in midsummer hatch in spring. The hatched caterpillars migrate to a tree crotch and construct a silken tent, which they leave each day throughout the summer to feed on the surrounding leaves. The forest tent caterpillar (M. disstria) is common in the southern U.S; the larvae of moths that build communal silken webs in orchard and shade trees
eastern tent caterpillar: Malacosoma americanum, a univoltine social caterpillar inhabiting communal nests in the branches of trees
forest tent caterpillar: larvae of a gregarious North American moth that spins a carpet rather than a tent; serious defoliator of deciduous trees
tent caterpillars: malacosoma
tent-caterpillar moth: moth whose larvae are tent caterpillars moth whose gregarious larvae spin carpets

tent caterpillar

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tent cat·er·pil·lar

tent kätıpîlır

/ˈtent ˈkatəˌpələr/ /ˈtɛnt ˈkætəˌpɪlɜr/

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