No massive poisonous caterpillar plague likely this year

Fears that the summer of 2020 would be marred by a plague of poisonous caterpillars like last year turned out to be unwarranted. Compared to 2019, there were considerably fewer reports of oak processionary caterpillars causing itching eyes and skin or other problems. In the coming weeks the caterpillars will pupate, which means that issues will decrease even further.Submitted by Janene Pieters on Wednesday, 15 July 2020 - 17:30 https://nltimes.nl/2020/07/15/massive-poisonous-caterpillar-plague-likely-year