1. Moth whose gregarious larvae spin webs resembling carpets
   "The Malacosoma disstria's webbing was visible across the branches";
   - tent-caterpillar moth
    
2. Larvae of a gregarious North American moth that spins a web resembling a carpet rather than a tent; serious defoliator of deciduous trees
   - forest tent caterpillar

Type of: lasiocampid, lasiocampid moth, tent caterpillar

Part of: genus Malacosoma, Malacosoma

Encyclopedia: Malacosoma disstria