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nyys Yongin, South Korea Sep 19, 2008

Taken in Korea... I 'd like to know what kind of caterpillar this is, and about the behavior. There were 500 or more of them in several pyramid-like webs!

And it's not spiderweb... the caterpillars were moving on the silk.

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sallyg Anne Arundel,, MD(Zone 7b) Sep 20, 2008

We have caterpillars in America that will make a common web like that, some called tent caterpillers.

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chicochi3 Fayetteville, AR(Zone 6b) Oct 05, 2008

I don't know what kind of caterpillars they are, but if they're like the ones here in the US, they will eat up the leaves on the plant where their web is located.

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fly_girl The Woodlands, TX(Zone 8b) Oct 06, 2008

They could be nasty Fall Webworms, these guys are everywhere:

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/ent/notes/O&T/trees/note46/note46.html

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