Two species of tent caterpillars are important tree pests in New York State. About every decade they become numerous enough in local outbreaks to cause concern. At times the epidemics reach statewide ...

It favors eating caterpillars and seems to respond well to outbreaks of tent caterpillars. The yellow-billed cuckoo has a slender body, a long tail, and rounded wings. Adults have grayish brown ...

My research interests concern the behavioral and chemical ecology of social caterpillars. Much of my work has involved tent caterpillars but more recently I have been studying social species occurring ...