Stripers hear spring’s song

The deceptively cheerful, shiny leaves of poison ivy are now peeping through the forest carpet, and a bivouac of tent caterpillars is emerging from the crotches of wild cherry trees. Members of the tiger moth family, they often voraciously defoliate an entire tree. Having overwintered as eggs, they hatch and weave like spiders their silk communal nests, forming a sanctuary in which to hide when …

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