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Dethmachinefab

Dethmachinefab

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Invaded by billions of gypsey moth caterpillars. Probably half of the trees are just about bare. They hit the oaks real hard so far.

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Tumblepillers of the dead blowing around.
 

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Used to have to deal with hundreds of those in Colorado. Had shit dots all over everything.
 
When I was a kid we got invaded by alfalfa caterpillars. We swept them up with a big dust pan and dumped them in muriatic acid.
 
Do they go after evergreens? A couple years ago my arborvitaes were loaded with similar-looking ones. It died back some but has since recovered.
 
I was a kid in the early 80s and my mom would. Clip any tent caterpillars tent and dump them in a bucket of oil.
 
These ones also seem to leave red itchy spots if one touches you. Never remember that happening.
 
Dethmachinefab said:
These ones also seem to leave red itchy spots if one touches you. Never remember that happening.
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Yup gypsy moths have spines that are irritating. Makes you break out. The worst is if they get under your clothes.
 
We get lots of swallowtail butterfly caterpillars on our citrus trees each year. They’re neat little fawkers.

They look like big crawling bird turds and they stick a long “tongue” out at you when you touch them :laughing:

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Grnjp92 said:
Yup gypsy moths have spines that are irritating. Makes you break out. The worst is if they get under your clothes.
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These fuckers are blowing in the wind and piling up everywhere. Wife doesn't even want to go outside between that and the shit rain. Never seen this many.
 
Rustymofo said:
We get lots of swallowtail butterfly caterpillars on our citrus trees each year. They’re neat little fawkers.

They look like big crawling bird turds and they stick a long “tongue” out at you when you touch them :laughing:

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Those are cool. We are talking about the assholes of the caterpillar world. Gypsy moths will do their best to strip all the green from a hillside.
 
Grnjp92 said:
Those are cool. We are talking about the assholes of the caterpillar world. Gypsy moths will do their best to strip all the green from a hillside.
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Im retarded and read the title as caterpillar for some reason, I see it now :laughing:
 
Back in the early 80's
We ha a shit ton of them. In north west nj.
Put tangle foot on the trees to try and stop them.
They shit so much it sounded like it was raining at night.
The little poops were all over everything.
 
Rustymofo said:
We get lots of swallowtail butterfly caterpillars on our citrus trees each year. They’re neat little fawkers.

They look like big crawling bird turds and they stick a long “tongue” out at you when you touch them :laughing:

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If you provoke one they'll defensive posture into a curl and reveal a stinger.
 
We have the brown tail moth caterpillars here that will destroy our oak trees. The little hairs from them give some people rashes. We have a property line that is all 3’-4’ DBH red oak trees, and have had them sprayed the last two years. It’s made a difference in the number of them as well as the trees health. It was $800 to do a line of trees 1,000’ long and a dozen apple and pear trees.
 
That happened to the two burr oaks I have planted in my front property. They were as tall as me when I planted them. When the got to about 10’ tall I saw them covered in gray inch worm things like that. The leaves were ate up bad in no time. I bought seven dust and put that on the tree leaves. The reaction was instant, but then they got too tall to put the powder on them as I was doing it every year as a precaution. Then I started buying the liquid seven things that mounts on the garden hose. Then they got so tall I have to use a tall ladder to get to the tops of them. I haven’t done it in a few years now but I watch them closely though.

I lost an old big oak out back one year to them before I knew what did it.
 
Landslide said:
That happened to the two burr oaks I have planted in my front property. They were as tall as me when I planted them. When the got to about 10’ tall I saw them covered in gray inch worm things like that. The leaves were ate up bad in no time. I bought seven dust and put that on the tree leaves. The reaction was instant, but then they got too tall to put the powder on them as I was doing it every year as a precaution. Then I started buying the liquid seven things that mounts on the garden hose. Then they got so tall I have to use a tall ladder to get to the tops of them. I haven’t done it in a few years now but I watch them closely though.

I lost an old big oak out back one year to them before I knew what did it.
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shouldn't you be able to just spray the trunk and lower branches and then they can't worm their way up to eat the top?
 
We had those bastards several years ago. The first year we were caught by surprise. The second year a bunch of us got together and had aerial spraying done to get rid of them. The timing of spraying during the caterpillar life cycle was pretty critical if I remember right.
 
I don’t see many caterpillars around here. We have a healthy population of frogs, toad, lizards, and birds to snack on them 😋
 
OP~ Looks like a plague at your place. 😳

Nothing around here-
 
det107 said:
OP~ Looks like a plague at your place. 😳

Nothing around here-
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Yea, seems limited to southern sullivan and northern orange, following the ridge.

So, if a tree has no leaves for a season is it going to survive?
 
Dethmachinefab said:
Yea, seems limited to southern sullivan and northern orange, following the ridge.

So, if a tree has no leaves for a season is it going to survive?
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If the tree is healthy they should leaf back out this summer, but the leaves will be small. However, unhealthy trees may die due to the stress.
Its devastating to watch and the caterpillars are a fucking mess
 
smurfblue40 said:
I don’t see many caterpillars around here. We have a healthy population of frogs, toad, lizards, and birds to snack on them 😋
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Theses little bastards are covered in little spikes.
Nothing eats them.
They were a science experiment that went wrong.
They were trying to produce a better silk worm.

History of Gypsy Moths In the United States

How gypsy moths came to the United States, how they got here
www.gypsymothalert.com
 
OP is a racist. :eek:

Spongy moth (formerly referred to as gypsy moth) in British Columbia (News to me)


They almost wiped out one of my apple trees here. I hate them. It was a smaller tree and was able to spray it all with poison. They all seem to be dead now. Previously I preferred fire, more satisfying but there wouldn't be any tree left if I did that.

Government here sprays poison from the sky to try an keep them under control. Just close your windows it is safe.


EDIT: I had tent caterpillars which I thought were just another name for gypsy moth but seems thee are not the same. fuck them too.
 
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