Courtesy of Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Courtesy of Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry is interested in collecting data to track the spread of these browntail moths and caterpillars. They’re little, snow white and fuzzy. Some people are even calling the moths “cute” or “pretty.” But to people who know what they are, the innocuous-seeming moths are not cute at all.