The chill creatures are the caterpillar of the White Marked Tussock ... “They will drop from the trees, and they just crawl up and my god they do make you itch,” said Carolyn Foulk, Heritage ...

Caterpillars infected with the fungus in the fall become carriers, and it “zombifies” them. The “crawling dead” will then carry the fungus to winter nests that are being built. When a new ...