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    caterpillar. Malacosoma alpicolum (Staudinger, 1870) Malacosoma americanum (Fabricius, 1793) Malacosoma californicum (Packard, 1864) Malacosoma castrense...
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    The eastern tent caterpillar (Malacosoma americanum) is a species of moth in the family Lasiocampidae, the tent caterpillars or lappet moths. It is univoltine...
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    Malacosoma incurva, the southwestern tent caterpillar moth, is a species of moth of the family Lasiocampidae. It was first described by Henry Edwards in...
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    The lackey moth (Malacosoma neustria) is a moth in the family Lasiocampidae. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema...
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    Malacosoma californicum, the western tent caterpillar, is a moth of the family Lasiocampidae. It is a tent caterpillar. The Western Tent Caterpillar is...
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    The forest tent caterpillar moth (Malacosoma disstria) is a moth found throughout North America, especially in the eastern regions. Unlike related tent...
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    Tent caterpillar (category Malacosoma)
    moderately sized caterpillars, or moth larvae, belonging to the genus Malacosoma in the family Lasiocampidae. Twenty-six species have been described, six...
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    Malacosoma castrense (or Malacosoma castrensis if adopt as original spelling), the ground lackey, is a moth of the family Lasiocampidae. It is a tent...
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    Malacosoma franconicum is a moth of the family Lasiocampidae first described by Michael Denis and Ignaz Schiffermüller in 1775. It is found in central...
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    Malacosoma constricta, also known as the Pacific tent caterpillar, is a species of moth endemic to North America. Malacosoma constricta is known from California...
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    Malacosoma tigris, the sonoran tent caterpillar, is a species of insect in the moth family Lasiocampidae. The MONA or Hodges number for Malacosoma tigris...
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    Malacosoma alpicolum (also, M. alpicola) is a moth of the family Lasiocampidae, the snout moths. It is native to the southern and central Alps. The wingspan...
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    Eastern tent caterpillar, Malacosoma americanum Forest tent caterpillar, Malacosoma disstrium Western tent caterpillar, Malacosoma californicum Larch moth...
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    cause the disintegration and collapse of colonies of tent caterpillars ( Malacosoma spp.)". Journal of Applied Entomology. 132 (6): 451–460. doi:10.1111/j...
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    fasciculata, desert almond (commonly infested with tent caterpillars of Malacosoma spp.) Prunus ilicifolia, holly-leaf cherry Quercus cornelius-mulleri,...
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    red-humped caterpillar (Schizura concinna ). Forest tent caterpillar (Malacosoma disstria) Camouflage: apparently with eight eyes, only two of them are...
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    experimentally increased populations of the forest tent caterpillar, Malacosoma disstria". Ecological Entomology. 22 (1): 97–108. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2311...
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    (June 2011). "Thermal ecology and behaviour of the nomadic social forager Malacosoma disstria". Physiological Entomology. 36 (2): 120–127. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3032...
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    multiple stressors, such as defoliation by the forest tent caterpillar (Malacosoma disstria), wood-boring beetles such as the poplar borer (Saperda calcarata)...
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  • Malacosoma americana (Fabricius, 1793) -NS, PE, NB, QC, ON, MB, SK, AB Malacosoma californica (Packard, 1864) -QC, ON, MB, SK, AB, BC, NT Malacosoma disstria...
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    semipurpurana), fall cankerworm (Alsophila pometaria), forest tent caterpillar (Malacosoma disstria), and walking stick (Diapheromera femoral). A few species of...
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    and roll them up with thread to form typical coils. The lackey moth (Malacosoma neustria) also causes damage to the leaves, sticking its eggs to the bark...
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    Tachinidae. Austria, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Sweden. Malacosoma neustrium, Malacosoma castrense, Aporia crataegi. Soós, Á; Papp, L (1993). Catalogue...
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    multiple stressors, such as defoliation by the forest tent caterpillar (Malacosoma disstria), aspen bark beetles (Trypophloeus populi and Procryphalus mucronatus)...
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    nobilis Lebeda trifascia Lenodora castanea Lenodora semihyalina Malacosoma indica Malacosoma parallela Metanastria gemella Metanastria hyrtaca syn. Metanastria...
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    (Lymantria dispar), and native insects such as the forest tent caterpillar (Malacosoma disstria), the fall webworm (Hyphantria cunea), and the spruce budworm...
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    deep. Insulation is provided by cocoons of the forest tent caterpillar (Malacosoma disstria) filling the interstitial spaces of the nest, and feathers used...
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    caterpillars of the European gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar) and of the genus Malacosoma. In some areas of the southern United States, the seeds of the common...
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  • albovittata Eastern tent caterpillar moth, Malacosoma americanum Forest tent caterpillar moth, Malacosoma disstria Saddleback caterpillar moth, Acharia...
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  • Emma Despland (2010). "Collective Foraging Patterns of Field Colonies of Malacosoma disstria Caterpillars". The Canadian Entomologist. 142 (5): 473–480. doi:10...
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