tent caterpillar

English Thesaurus

1. the larvae of moths that build and live in communal silken webs in orchard and shade trees (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	caterpillar,
definition	:	a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	forest tent caterpillar, malacosoma disstria,
definition	:	larvae of a gregarious North American moth that spins a web resembling a carpet rather than a tent; serious defoliator of deciduous trees (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus malacosoma, malacosoma,
definition	:	tent caterpillars (noun.animal)