There were a number of tent caterpillar webs on chokecherry trees, and on the twigs near the tents, or further down on the trunk of the tree, were old egg masses.
We have a very bad "crop" of tent caterpillars this year. They are just starting to eat the leaves, and they are going to do a lot of damage. In any case, that's an interesting photo.
interesting they are so barnacle-like...here in the west their eggs are in a more gossamer web....the larvae are hyper destructive though, killing many shrubs and trees in the odd years they thrive..i those same years wasps also spread, their eggs implanted in a host larva...
I've never seen these before. We had little, tiny, black caterpillars falling on us from some pines yesterday. I thought tent caterpillars, but they were only about 4mm long. These eggs make me think tent caterpillar babies are larger.
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