As June progresses, some areas of the province might be seeing the emergence of tent caterpillars on the foliage of aspen trees.

The provincial forest insect and disease expert in the Forest Service Branch of Saskatchewan for the Ministry of Environment describes tent caterpillars as a nuisance insect.

Rory McIntosh says they will get the aspen tree in your yard, and they will strip it so it looks like winter, but the leaves will grow back.

He describes forest tent caterpillars as a beautiful insect identifiable by their blue colour with bits of red or fiery orange and exclamation shapes along it’s back.

The most recent outbreak in Saskatoon wound down in 2019 after about five years.

(westcentralonline.com)