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Local ugly side of nature!

GraphyFotozGraphyFotoz Registered Users Posts: 2,267 Major grins
edited May 14, 2006 in Wildlife
Well this isn't Birds or Pretty Flowers but one of natures check balances I guess.
I hate these things but I'm sure the Birds love to eat em.

Damn Tent Catipillars.....they can defoliate a deciduous tree in a matter of of a coupla weeks!

They are a local PITA for a coupla months!!

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    kdogkdog Administrators Posts: 11,680 moderator
    edited May 14, 2006
    I hate them. When I see them on my fruit trees, I blast the tents with wasp spray before the buggers get out. Wasp spray has a narrow high velocity and really sinks into the tent. For extra credit, you can poke a hole in the tent first. They writhe for a while, then croak before they get a chance to defoliate your tree. It works very well. :gun2
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    DeeDee Registered Users Posts: 2,981 Major grins
    edited May 14, 2006
    Ugh
    I'm not afraid of worms or caterpillars or anything, but seeing them in that large swarming mass makes me cringe!
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    R JohnsR Johns Registered Users Posts: 170 Major grins
    edited May 14, 2006
    Is that catapillar p**p, in the bottom of that nest? :lol4
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    GraphyFotozGraphyFotoz Registered Users Posts: 2,267 Major grins
    edited May 14, 2006
    R Johns wrote:
    Is that catapillar p**p, in the bottom of that nest? :lol4

    Laughing.gif I guess you look at it a natural BIG diaper! lol3.gif
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    GraphyFotozGraphyFotoz Registered Users Posts: 2,267 Major grins
    edited May 14, 2006
    Dee wrote:
    I'm not afraid of worms or caterpillars or anything, but seeing them in that large swarming mass makes me cringe!

    Better than SPIDERS!
    Now those give me the woollies big time!eek7.gif :hide

    No lie....at nite you can actually hear their po hitting the ground and munching in a BIG Oak that
    is infested with em!!
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    AllenAllen Registered Users Posts: 10,011 Major grins
    edited May 14, 2006
    Need more of these birds
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    GraphyFotozGraphyFotoz Registered Users Posts: 2,267 Major grins
    edited May 14, 2006
    That a Vireo or a Oven Bird?

    Send em my way they will get so fat they won't be able to fly!! rolleyes1.gif
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