It has five pairs of blue spots followed by six pairs of red spots along its back. The eastern tent caterpillar is also about 2 inches long when fully grown, but it has a white line down its back ...

The larvae are hairy with a black and white stripe down the back, with brown and yellow lines on the sides, and a horizontal row of oval blue spots on the sides. Mature caterpillars are 2 to 2.5 ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Its name is just as impressive as it's look – the White Hickory Tussock Moth Caterpillar ... neck and back, it was the spikes that caused the most problems.