Forest+Tent+Caterpillar+Description

**Did you know that the first outbreak of Forest Tent Caterpillars in Wisconsin dated all the way back to the 1600s. However, there was a terrible outbreak in 1986 and after efoliating hundreds of thousands of forest acres, their population finally decreased in 1991. The Forest Tent Caterpillar has an extremely long scientific name that is hard to pronuciate. This name is “Malacosomal Disstria Hubner”. From our research, the first outbreak of the Forest Tent Caterpillar (Malacosomal Disstria Hubner) dates back to the early 1600s in Wisconsin and the latest major outbreak occurred between the years of 1999-2000. During these years, Forest Tent Caterpillars were everywhere. One person who witnessed this outbreak wrote a small journal about it. In this journal, he mentioned he** ** was surrounded by hundreds of thousands of strands of webs! Everywhere he turned, the sticky webs covered his glasses, hair, eyes and clothes. ** Michael Smith
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