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Unread 09-19-2007, 02:23 PM
 
Location: Missouri
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Default New Friend in The Yard!!

Ok You all what is this?????
http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/b... (broken link)
http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/b... (broken link)

Scary HUH??? These spiders are busy workers. I wonder how big these Ummm Spiders are?
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Unread 09-19-2007, 02:42 PM
 
Location: Fontana, California
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Ruuun Karey its a bat web! LOL! Sorry that first picture looked like a bat to me.
I seen the same thing on the news recently except the web was as big as the tree. Strangest thing I ever did see!
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Unread 09-19-2007, 03:25 PM
 
Location: Van Buren, MO
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I believe those are called webworms
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Unread 09-19-2007, 03:39 PM
 
Location: MO Ozarkian in NE Hoosierana
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Ruuun Karey its a bat web! LOL! Sorry that first picture looked like a bat to me.
I seen the same thing on the news recently except the web was as big as the tree. Strangest thing I ever did see!
lol... that first photo did look like one of my little buddies...

Actually, those nasty looking webs are 'tent caterpillars' or 'webworms' - from what I know, there is very little to no positive benefit of these creatures; unless you desire your tree to be potentially defoliated in places and then be weakened... I take a long stick, etc., gather the web and as many 'pillars as possible, and then either crush 'em , or burn 'em [of course do NOT burn 'em while they are in the tree! ]. The moths that these change into are also not much positive, besides spreading more eggs which then hatch into more 'pillars which then feed upon more leafs... Reports of this year to be higher numbers of 'em too, btw.

Couple refs of interest:
G7271 Insect Defoliators of Missouri Trees: Web Producers, MU Extension
Bagworms, Webworms, and Caterpillars
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Unread 09-19-2007, 03:41 PM
 
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Burn them all...get every one that you can! They are the devil!
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Unread 09-19-2007, 04:06 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia
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MOMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Unread 09-19-2007, 04:08 PM
 
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They will kill the tree if they are left there long enough. We always burn them and sometimes call for poison. They are nasty things.
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Unread 09-19-2007, 04:11 PM
 
Location: Rural Central Texas
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If you cannot get all the webs down, punch open as many as possible and wasps will take care of those that survive your wrath. The worms are only safe as long as their webs protect them from the other flying insects that view them as a delicacy.

See! Yellowjackets have a use afterall.
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Unread 09-19-2007, 08:13 PM
 
Location: No city lights here
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arent those bag worms?
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Unread 09-19-2007, 08:14 PM
 
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take a little propane torch and burn them ........

they will kill the tree!
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