of caterpillars left the mangrove area and came on the roads and in residential area it could be due to the change in climatic conditions as it is still raining even during the october heat seasonnerul ward officer shashikant tandel said that on wednesday the nmmc health department had carried out malaria fumigation in the locality to arrest mosquito breeding it is possible that the caterpillars in the mangroves were affected by fumigation and they scattered all over the area and reached the street and residential area in the vicinity of the mangroves tandel saidnitin gupta 18 a resident of nand apartment in sector 50 of seawoods said several insects entered his home sa the windows were openwe are compelled to keep our windows closed he said the sight of these ugly worms crawling on the window panes is indeed unbearablewith inputs from vijay singh