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Help! Tents on apple tree!

 
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What are these on my apple tree? Processionary? Tent?  
What to do?
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Fall webworms. Just remove the tents with larvae living inside.

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Take them down and stomp on them. Some place in the past had issues with total deforestation due to to caterpillars (I forgot which ones they were, but totally devastate an area.)
 
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One year every single black walnut tree in my neighborhood was infested with webworms. I drove miles down the road and those trees were entirely white from the webs. There was virtually no walnut harvest that year. The trees bounced back and the next year i guess nature sorted it out.

If you have other fruit trees, the webworms can spread to those too. So act fast since cultivated trees aren't as resilient as wild trees.

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Dennis Goyette wrote:Take them down and stomp on them. Some place in the past had issues with total deforestation due to to caterpillars (I forgot which ones they were, but totally devastate an area.)



They are a huge problem here.  People here stop on the side of the road and rip them down and stomp them when they see them.

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The webworms can cause a lot of damage to what they are on and fast.

Picking them off and stomping may use up a lot of energy.

While I have not used the bucket of water method for webworms it works wonders for tomato horned worms.  Pick them off, drop in the water and the little buggers drown.

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finally remembered what those caterpillars were, gypsy moths....
 
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Thanks! Will do.

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We get them in our madrones mostly where I live. You just gotta poke a hole in the tent. Birds will then get in there and eat em up.

If the tent is too high to reach we use some arrows me and my boy made for his "little kid" bow and and arrow set. Basically we just used a couple paperclips and made a giant cross point arrow head thingy and he shoots a big hole in the tent. The birdies do the rest.

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I have the exact same thing on one of my apple trees this year and had no clue what it was. Thanks for posting!
 
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