About 3 months ago my mother in law noticed something growing on one of our shrubs in the front of our house. They looked like a little mini-pinecone, and there were probably 70 of them on one small knee-high evergreen. She told us they were probably bag-worms and to save the tree that they were growing on, we would need to cut each of them off. They would hatch in mid-May and the tini larvae would crawl out of the bag and begin eating the shrub. According to a website that I found from the Univ of Kentucky, “Older larvae strip evergreens of their needles and consume whole leaves of susceptible deciduous species, leaving only the larger veins. The bag is ornamented with bits of whatever type of vegetation they are feeding upon.” Yuck! They were so mushy and we filled an entire plastic grocery bag with them by the end of one day. We have found a few others on some of the other trees / plants in the yard and removed them. Here’s hoping they don’t return…
If you want more info on these icky little guys, check out: http://www.ca.uky.edu/entomology/entfacts/ef440.asp
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