Larval horror scene takes over Rotterdam   .

It's like a scene from a weird sci-fi but it's very real. A swarm of caterpillars invade the Dutch town of Rotterdam, decimating the foliage and nesting on anything they can find. It looks like winter without a leaf left on the trees above. The caterpillars, larvae of the ermine moth, cover their nests in a silk-like ooze where they will cocoon and go through metamorphosis before becoming moths.

"Statistics show an increase in the number of caterpillar pests in the last twenty years. The eggs survive much better with the softer and wetter winters. Many people are disgusted with the creepy creatures." So it seems this sticky mess is a weird side-effect of climate change.

Cheers to nature being weirder than sci-fi at times!

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