Tussock Moths

[Jese Engwall]

I spied the bright yellow tussock moth caterpillar this morning, on my deck tailing, not the tussock moth itself! Here’s a photo.

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Photo hopefully

Thanks for solving two mysteries to me, Wendy.  We were shocked to see the patch of dead trees up from Buckingham Park just a few weeks ago- it seemed to have happened very quickly.  We also have had many of these caterpillars on my deck the last few weeks, but slightly different in color.  I appreciate knowing they are bad news for our trees.  The caterpillars we keep seeing are more like the image below, with the clumps of hair(?) fairly yellow but blue/grey bodies