Originally Posted by LilRaverBoi

Honestly, I had never seen one in my life until about 3 years ago. I was living in Iowa at the time and they showed up that summer in large numbers. The funny thing was that they only really ate basswood (linden) trees...nothing else. They would eat on basswoods till there were NO LEAVES AT ALL left....only the spiderweb of veins in the leaves were left on the tree from the ground to the top. It was crazy.