I saw a pure white one the other day and thought it must be an omen of the winter to come. LOL
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Bacillus Thuringiensis (Bt) is a product that you may find helpful. Call your local feed store to see if they have it.
It is considered organic and can really help with caterpillers. |
Originally Posted by cjomomma
Originally Posted by Up North
Are you seeing a lot of white nests in the trees? We had an epedemic of them several years ago in our area and they stripped the trees bare for miles, It looked like winter! They are awful! We had bands of duct tape with Vaseline on it so they wouldn't crawl up into the trees in the yard but the forest was eaten bare!
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Ewww I would be spraying or dusting something on these, if they are that bad.
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They creep me out. Your camera was a little too good. ha ha
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IT took close ups JUST fine! OOOOwwww 8-)
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These are tent caterpillars and very destructive. They can completely defoliate a branch or an entire tree. We get them in our young trees here; dh removes them ASAP to protect the trees (which took a lot of work to plant in addition to money for purchase!).
Edit: Sorry, I thought I had quoted the post I was responding to. I didn't mean the caterpillars in the original poster's pictures. Someone mentioned seeing caterpillars in white tents in the trees; those are the caterpillars I meant. Don't know what the others are, but they don't look good!!! |
Ewww yukkie. I've been battling with Hobo Spiders. Very poisonous. I haven't seen any wormies yet. Maybe the spider killing stuff works for them too. If anyone has these spiders be very careful. Their breeding time is August and September.
Highly aggressive. :shock: |
I have a squirrel that comes to feed every couple of days, she won't even get on the grass.
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Am I the only one who looks at that & thinks "time to go fishing"?
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