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WHAT DOES TENT CATERPILLAR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Tent caterpillar

Tent caterpillars are moderately sized species in the genus Malacosoma and in the moth family Lasiocampidae. Species occur in North America, including Mexico, and in Eurasia. Twenty-six species have been described, six of which occur in North America. Some species are considered to have subspecies as well. They are often considered pests due to their habit of defoliating trees. They are among the most social of all caterpillars and exhibit many noteworthy behaviors. Tent caterpillars are readily recognized because they are social, colorful, diurnal and build conspicuous silk tents in the branches of host trees. Some species, such as the eastern tent caterpillar, Malacosoma americanum, build a single large tent which is typically occupied through the whole of the larval stage, while others build a series of small tents that are sequentially abandoned. Whereas tent caterpillars make their tents in the nodes and branches of a tree's limbs, webworms enclose leaves and small branches at the ends of the limbs.

Definition of tent caterpillar in the English dictionary

The definition of tent caterpillar in the dictionary is the larva of various moths of the family Lasiocampidae, esp Malacosoma americana of North America, which build communal webs in trees.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TENT CATERPILLAR

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WORDS THAT END LIKE TENT CATERPILLAR

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Synonyms and antonyms of tent caterpillar in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «tent caterpillar» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TENT CATERPILLAR

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The translations of tent caterpillar from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tent caterpillar» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

天幕毛虫
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

oruga de la tienda
570 millions of speakers

English

tent caterpillar
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

तम्बू कमला
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

خيمة كاتربيلر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

палатка гусеница
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tenda lagarta
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

তাম্বু caterpillar
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

livrée
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Translator English - Malay

Ulat khemah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Zelt Raupe
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

天幕毛虫
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

텐트 애벌레
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Caterpillar tent
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

lều sâu bướm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கூடாரம் கம்பளிப்பூச்சி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तंबू सुरवंट
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Translator English - Turkish

Çadır tırtıl
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tenda bruco
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Translator English - Polish

namiot gąsienica
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Translator English - Ukrainian

палатка гусениця
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cort omidă
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Translator English - Greek

σκηνή κάμπια
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Translator English - Afrikaans

tent ruspe
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

tent caterpillar
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

telt caterpillar
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TENT CATERPILLAR»

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Western tent caterpillar in aspen
Life History and Habits The western tent caterpillar has a 1 -year life cycle. The small caterpillars hatch from eggs about the same time the aspen leaves come out in the spring. The caterpillars feed in a group on the young leaves and construct ...
United States. Forest Service. Southwestern Region, 1992
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Microbial insecticides control forest tent caterpillar in ...
701 LOYOLA AVENUE NE W 0 R LEAN S , L A. 70113 MICROBIAL INSECTICIDES CONTROL FOREST TENT CATERPILLAR IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA L. P. Abrahamson 1 and J. D. Harper 2 SOUTHERN FOREST EXPERIMENT ...
Lawrence P. Abrahamson, Southern Forest Experiment Station (New Orleans, La.), 1973
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The Tent Caterpillars
In addition to the eastern tent caterpillar, more than 200 species of lepidopteran caterpillars attack black cherry during the season, but the majority of these species feed during midsummer (Fig. 5.9). Although other factors such as predation ...
Terrence D. Fitzgerald, 1995
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Guide to Colorado Insects
Order: Lepidoptera Family: Lasiocampidae Species in Colorado: 5 — Malacosoma californica (western tent caterpillar), M. incurvum (southwestern tent caterpillar), M. tigris (Sonoran tent caterpillar), M. disstria (forest tent caterpillar), and M.
Whitney Cranshaw, Boris C. Kondratieff, 2006
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The World of the Tent-makers: A Natural History of the ...
A Natural History of the Eastern Tent Caterpillar Vincent Gaston Dethier. greenish blue. The beauty vanishes. If you analyze beauty, whether physically or intellectually, you often destroy it. With the caterpillars we have now intruded beyond the ...
Vincent Gaston Dethier, 1980
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Evaluating the Susceptibility of Sugar Maple Stands to ...
1964. Long-term effects of defoliation on aspen by the forest tent caterpillar. Ecology 45(3):630-633. Cooke, B. J., and J. Roland. 2000. Spatial analysis of large-scale patterns of forest tent caterpillar outbreaks. Ecoscience 7(4):410-422. Cooke ...
Dustin M. Wood, 2008
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Ecosystem Management in the Boreal Forest
An historical account of the forest tent caterpillar and of the fall webworm in North America. Annual report of the Entomological Society of Ontario 47: 73-84. Blais, J.R. 1958. Effects of defoliation by spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana ...
‎2009
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Forest Entomology
Species Distribution Principal hosts M. americanum Fabricius Eastern tent caterpillar M. californicum (Packard) Western tent caterpillar and USA M. constrictum (Henry Edwards) Pacific tent caterpillar M. disstria (Hu ̈bner) Forest tent ...
William Ciesla, 2011
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Texas Bug Book: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Forest Tent Caterpillar (no tent) — Malacasoma disstria. Tent Caterpillar — Malacasoma americanum. SIZE: Adult — 2", larva — 2" IDENTIFICATION: Adults are heavy-bodied, hairy, yellow to brown moths. They have a short proboscis or none, ...
Howard Garrett, C. Malcolm Beck, 2005
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Stalking the Vesper Bluets: Photographs by Stephen Cresswell
Forest Tent Caterpillar, Malacosoma disstria When summer is in full swing I have the habit of taking the camera everywhere with me. On a visit to my sister Cathy's house in Indiana in 1990 I dutifully packed the camera, figuring that Indiana ...
‎2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TENT CATERPILLAR»

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Tent caterpillars infest Tillamook County, but threat is purely cosmetic
Western tent caterpillar larvae resting on silken tents they create within the tree. ... Tent caterpillars, larval moths that wriggle by the hundreds inside gauzy tents ... «OregonLive.com, Jun 15»
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Ground zero for 'army worms'
VERMILION LAKE TOWNSHIP— Residents near Hwy. 169 southwest of Tower have found themselves at ground zero of a forest tent caterpillar outbreak that ... «Tower Timberjay News, Jun 15»
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It Came for My Cherry Trees
Tent Caterpillars | Nantucket, MA I wrote about eastern tent caterpillars a couple of years ago but they are so prevalent around the island, literally spreading out ... «Yesterday's Island/Today's Nantucket, Jun 15»
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NH seeing invasion of the caterpillar
Just mention eastern tent caterpillars to her, and she'll respond with a more colorful ... Eastern tent caterpillars are a common sight for most springs in New ... «The Union Leader, May 15»
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Forest tent caterpillars chow down on Winnipeg trees
Forest tent caterpillars are starting to chow down on Winnipeg trees, prompting the city to take action. The city's insect control branch announced Thursday the ... «CBC.ca, May 15»
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Can tent caterpillars kill a tree?
In many cases, trees that lost their leaves early in the spring can regrow them leaves in July, after tent caterpillars have stopped feeding. Healthy trees can ... «SILive.com, May 15»
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Tent caterpillars return to Western Washington
Tent caterpillars hatch and produce problems for homeowners. The eggs that were laid last fall hatch, and result in colonies of caterpillars that make giant nests ... «KING5.com, May 15»
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Caterpillars on your tree? Now what?
Eastern tent caterpillars (Malacosoma americanum) are the larvae of a native North American moth. Hatching in March from overwintered egg masses on twigs, ... «Burlington County Times, May 15»
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Forest tent caterpillar peak may have passed in Northland
Forest tent caterpillar numbers crashed in 2014, a year they should have multiplied, surprising forest pest experts but leaving Northlanders grateful and their ... «Duluth News Tribune, Apr 15»
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Eastern Tent Caterpillars Making Presence Known
The egg masses of the eastern tent caterpillar, Malacosoma americanum, have hatched and the larvae caterpillars) can be seen feeding on plants. After a while ... «Dodge City Daily Globe, Apr 15»

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