WEB WORM INVASION

[Big Papa]

Web worms (Gypsy Moth Caterpillars to be exact) live in colonies usually in trees where they spin a protective barrier of silky threads to protect themselves from predators. Usually, these colonies are small but sometimes, one grows out of control...

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[sandgk]

Choked up.

 

[OCBuckWife]

When I lived in the hills of Nevada during elementary school, we would get those kinds of fuzzy webby pocket colonies on the "desert peach" and "desert plum" bushes that dotted the landscape. It's weird because you can't really get to the caterpillars, they are actually in/under various layers of that sticky, webby stuff, not on top.

 

[PlanetFrnd]

I just threw up on my desk...

 

[OCBuckWife]

[quote='BusNative;95761;9]I just threw up on my desk...[/quote]

Not a big caterpillar fan? What about the butterflies and moths they usually turn into?

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

When I saw the thread title, I thought it was something that fucked with your browser...

 

[sandgk]

When I saw the thread title, I thought it was something that fucked with your browser...

fucked mine up good and proper.

 

[BuckeyeSoldier]

I damned near started a forest fire when i was like 14 trying to kill a bunch of those bastards... ya know.. in the forest... with fire...

 

[PlanetFrnd]

Not a big caterpillar fan? What about the butterflies and moths they usually turn into?

When I think Catepillars, I imagine 1 or 2 at a time, not a colony that looks like the Blob

 

[coastalbuck]

Any insecticide will do the job, just gotta get it into the web. A flock of sparrows wouldn't hurt either...

 

[Hubbard]

YUCK! I wouldn't of let it get that far, those bastards is gross!

 

[BB73]

Looks like a sticky situation.