Related
CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- You may have noticed the trees in your yard seem to have webs around some of their branches.
They are webworms, and this is their peak season, WBBM Newsradio’s Steve Miller reports.
They are fall webworms, to be precise. They’ve hatched out — maybe 1,500 of them per web — and they are in caterpillar form.
And Julie Janoski, plant clinic manager at the Morton Arboretum, says they are eating leaves under that web.
“So if these worms are eating some of the leaves, it’s really not that big a deal.”
Janoski says the cocoons will spend winter in the soil and in the spring they’ll emerge as moths.
The Morton Arboretum's plant clinic is open Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.. For questions about trees and plants, call (630) 719-2424 or send an email to plantclinic@mortonarb.org.