If you see webs being formed around the tips of branches as well as defoliation under the webbing in your pecan, hickory, persimmon and sweet gum trees, they are probably infested with fall webworms.

In late summer, shade trees throughout the county are often covered with large, light gray, silken webs. Fall webworms enclose leaves and small branches in their nests making trees around the county ...

Control measures used immediately against fall webworms will be most effective while the caterpillars are still small and have not caused much damage. Fall webworm adults are white moths that lay eggs ...

From mid-August through the end of the summer is when the fall webworm will be noticed on walnut and other hardwood trees. This insect is usually identified by the loose, gray, silk tent spun by a ...

It’s September and, once again, time for me to talk about fall webworms. Last September, I answered the “what?” question regarding webworms and their silky cocoons. I saw them everywhere I turned.