willow trees—produce a suite of salicylate-like compounds, close to aspirin, that act as toxins to protect the trees from many insects." Because the spongy moth caterpillar ends its leaf-eating ...

Gypsy moth caterpillars can cause significant damage ... Their preferred hosts are oak, apple, birch, and willow trees, but they will feed on many other types of plants as well,' she adds.

It can also be found on maple, cherry, peach, hawthorn, pear, and plum, ash, birch, black gum, willow, poplar and ... thus this is a good time to scout. Caterpillars spin a tightly woven silk “tent” ...

the insect defoliates many other fruit trees as well as deciduous forest and shade trees including birch, oak, willow, poplar, and beech. The forest tent caterpillar prefers the foliage of sugar maple ...

Tussock moth caterpillars are native to Florida and the southeastern United States and feed on oak trees, among many others.