By Aislinn Sarnacki We’d been hiking for three miles before I started to feel a prickly sensation at the top of my foot near ...

By Susan Bard, Bangor Daily News Outdoors Editor Several caterpillar species in Maine can cause skin reactions, including the invasive browntail moth. One of the most common caterpillars in the fall — ...

(Judy Gallagher/Wikipedia CC BY SA 2.0) Prevalent in the summer and fall across southern Ontario, the hickory tussock caterpillar is a native species that is about 5 cm long and has tufts of hair that ...

A hidden army reaches a crescendo about this time of year. Its tubular soldiers are largely out of sight and mind, but wage battle with vegetation on an epic scale. Mostly emerging under cover of ...