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For us they mostly make their bag nests high up. Too high for a torch, too high for the lopers with extensions. Although I didn't worry this year with the limited number of them. Ground is very uneven below and I can reach the few lower ones but will have to devise something to reach the highest ones.
For us they mostly make their bag nests high up. Too high for a torch, too high for the lopers with extensions. Although I didn't worry this year with the limited number of them. Ground is very uneven below and I can reach the few lower ones but will have to devise something to reach the highest ones.
You can always duct tape a propane torch to the end of one of the painter roller extension poles or one of your lopper extension poles.
One other trick that works good is just using a branch with a small crotch. Just shove it into the web and twist. You can roll up the whole nest and place it on the ground and step. Just don't slip with the goo on your shoes (it also stinks)! I kind of like the rolling and squashing best. It's like I'm plying Gulliver and did not look where I stepped! Too many 'little people'!
For Bagworms, I was told to spray the trees with Bonide All Season Dormant Spray in December since this proves protection against infestation. Then in early June, if there are any signs of Bagworms, spraying them with a product that goes by the name of Dipel or Thoricide will kill them as long as the cocoons are not greater than 1/2 inch in length.
All of this can be accomplished with a hose end sprayer which will have an extended spray length. The best scenario is a soil drench so hopefully I can find one for Bagworms!
You can always duct tape a propane torch to the end of one of the painter roller extension poles or one of your lopper extension poles.
One other trick that works good is just using a branch with a small crotch. Just shove it into the web and twist. You can roll up the whole nest and place it on the ground and step. Just don't slip with the goo on your shoes (it also stinks)! I kind of like the rolling and squashing best. It's like I'm plying Gulliver and did not look where I stepped! Too many 'little people'!
This is good. I have some neighbors who have let their bagworm population grow and don't do anything about it. I may take theirs on as well.
For Bagworms, I was told to spray the trees with Bonide All Season Dormant Spray in December since this proves protection against infestation. Then in early June, if there are any signs of Bagworms, spraying them with a product that goes by the name of Dipel or Thoricide will kill them as long as the cocoons are not greater than 1/2 inch in length.
All of this can be accomplished with a hose end sprayer which will have an extended spray length. The best scenario is a soil drench so hopefully I can find one for Bagworms!
Had not heard of the Dec spraying. Good idea for early prevention.
You can always duct tape a propane torch to the end of one of the painter roller extension poles or one of your lopper extension poles.
One other trick that works good is just using a branch with a small crotch. Just shove it into the web and twist. You can roll up the whole nest and place it on the ground and step. Just don't slip with the goo on your shoes (it also stinks)! I kind of like the rolling and squashing best. It's like I'm plying Gulliver and did not look where I stepped! Too many 'little people'!
You can’t be serious about about taping a propane torch to the end of a pole and using it on a tree?
Besides a possible fire, how would you see small bagworm sacks high up in a tree? While trying to see them from a distance and poking them with a pole seems like another ineffective way to sole the problem, at least in my humble opinion!
You can’t be serious about about taping a propane torch to the end of a pole and using it on a tree?
Besides a possible fire, how would you see small bagworm sacks high up in a tree? While trying to see them from a distance and poking them with a pole seems like another ineffective way to sole the problem, at least in my humble opinion!
Some trees and some of the webs are obviously too high for the standard extension polls. I also would not try this if the tree was filled with dry, dead, leaves. Fortunately our weather pattern has supplied us with plenty of moisture this year; wet days are the best where one does not have to worry about burning too much. By the way, I did not mention burning with a propane torch first, but I have used the torch on the webs.
Regardless of which method you use (fire, pruning, or twisting with a stick); you will not get them all out of the higher trees (without a bucket lift). The main idea is to cut down their numbers as much as you can. The more you eliminate this year; the fewer your trees will have next year.
When I first bought our five acre property about forty yeas ago we were loaded with the eastern tent caterpillars. The property also had many small, scrubby looking, wild cherry trees. I cut down all the small wild cherry trees. The wild cherry are the favorite trees of the Eastern tent caterpillars along with my fruit trees. My fruit tree I attacked the webs usually with sticks and long poles which I then twisted and pulled them out the trees.
Unfortunately the Fall web worms like about 100 different trees and not just a few like their cousins. That complicates the job.
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