Thanks to all for the info on tent caterpillars. >In town, we get the western tent caterpillar, Malacosoma californicum >pluviale Dyar. Orange and black. If you get bluish ones, it will be >the forest tent caterpillar, Malacosoma disstria Hubner My Golden Guide to Insect Pests and my Peterson Guide to Insects both say that forest tent caterpillars don't actually make tents, so I doubt that it's them. Thanks again, Paul Talbert Hillman City, Seattle tuisto@oz.net
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