You might have seen them crawling up the trees in your backyard or maybe on your Adirondack chair. Spongy moth caterpillars, identifiable by their dark, hairy bodies and blue and red spots, are back.

This year is shaping up to be a bad spongy moth year in the region.

Jason Dole Spoke to The River Reporter’s Ruby Rayner about the spongy moth’s seasonal return.

Image: Cornell College of Agriculture