How We Removed the Eastern Tent Caterpillar

Eastern Tent Caterpillar, the larvae of the tent caterpillar moth. In adulthood, they will be brown moths that you'll often see flocking to the nearest light source. The newly hatched caterpillars initiate the construction of a silk tent soon after emerging. They typically aggregate at the tent site throughout their larval stage, expanding the tent each day to accommodate their increasing size. Under field conditions, the caterpillars feed three times each day, just before dawn, at midafternoon, and in the evening after sunset. During each bout of feeding, the caterpillars emerge from the tent, add silk to the structure, move to distant feeding sites in masse, feed, and then return immediately to the tent where they rest until the next activity period.

We are Purépecha Unalachtigo Ranch.



We are using wisdom from what we learned from our elders to be responsible to earth as a connected system and to celebrate both ancient cultures of our people.

We are practicing homesteading, and a permanent culture which is a philosophy of working with nature. Our perma-home is our lifestyle of self-sufficiency. We practice agriculture, home preservation of food, natural pest control, recycling and a small amount of production of natural fibers, clothing, and craftwork from items grown on the perma-home for household use or sale.

We have a keen sense of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, to determine their contribution to each other and ourselves as a self-sufficiency method of survival.

We practice a set of principles developed around whole systems thinking to utilize the behaviors and features we notice in our natural connected systems.

We take advantage of renewable energy by using solar electricity. We also plant and grow heirloom vegetables and raise heritage livestock.

Our ultimate goal is self-sufficiency from our perma-home in which we need little or no help from outside employment.

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