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'♦♦♦♦♦♦♦• area in Pennsylvania where the droppings from the moth came down like rain,” he said. “It was just awful."
Owings said that he gets calls from alarmed landowners about caterpillars they have found, and asked that anyone who thinks they have found a gypsy moth or a caterpillar study the markings carefully. “We get a lot of false alarms,” he said.
Characteristics
-Young caterpillars (%" - Vi”) are brown to smoky brown, with black shiny heads. When caterpillars reach Vi” or longer they have orange marks on their back.
-Mature caterpillars are charcoal gray, hairy (dark hair) with distinctive pairs of 5 blue and 6 red spots on their back and are l'/i - 2” in length. Heads change to dull cream or yellow in color with dark lines.
-Caterpillars emerge in late April or early May and feed thru mid-June-early July.
-Gypsy moths never make a tent or webbing in the tree, but young caterpillars hang from a silken threat only early in the season (late April-early May).
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