Bag worm infestation

[willy]

Anybody have any knowledge on these. Our state forester put out an email educating us about them and I watched the videos he attached. I got em thick.

I'm not sure what they will do to my fruit trees on the farm but almost every cedar I look at has a load of bag worm shelters attached to many of their limbs. It is much larger than just walk around and pull all the shelters off of trees. The advice on the vids were to pull the worm shelters or spray.

I don't want to spray as I feel I will kill the honey bees.

What can I expect for the destruction they will bring?

 

[catscratch]

I have bagworms by the ton. Same as you with them being on cedars. Last yr I found a few on one of my apple trees. I had no clue they would be on anything other than a cedar. Not particularly fond of the idea that they might attack a fruit tree.

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[Native Hunter]

The preferred tree in my area is black cherry. Most people don’t know it, but they will Also build in chestnut trees, and yes I have had them in apple trees.

I generally just rip the nests apart with a long pole. In some cases I would spray but would rather not.

 

[willy]

Do you know if blue birds eat them? I have loads of blue birds.

I have lots of black cherry trees. Great, it sounds like I have just the right buffet for them.

 

[Native Hunter]

Do you know if blue birds eat them? I have loads of blue birds.

I have lots of black cherry trees. Great, it sounds like I have just the right buffet for them.

I’ve never seen birds eat them but have to believe that most would.

 

[catscratch]

The preferred tree in my area is black cherry. Most people don’t know it, but they will Also build in chestnut trees, and yes I have had them in apple trees.

I generally just rip the nests apart with a long pole. In some cases I would spray but would rather not.

Are you thinking of tent worms? The bag worms that I know are very tough and single in nature (not a nest that a pole could be used on).

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[catscratch]

Do you know if blue birds eat them? I have loads of blue birds.

I have lots of black cherry trees. Great, it sounds like I have just the right buffet for them.

If they do I need to put out more bluebird boxes because I have an unlimited food supply that they are cutting into.

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[Native Hunter]

Are you thinking of tent worms? The bag worms that I know are very tough and single in nature (not a nest that a pole could be used on).

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Yes, my bad - I was thinking tent worms.

We do have bag worms too, but I hardly ever see them on anything but cedar trees. Sorry for the confusion. My mind hasn't been right since watching the debate.....

 

[catscratch]

Yes, my bad - I was thinking tent worms.

We do have bag worms too, but I hardly ever see them on anything but cedar trees. Sorry for the confusion. My mind hasn't been right since watching the debate.....

Ya, that explains it. No wonder your mind isn't right, you've been trying to make the mess of those debates make sense. Have you figured out Bernies numbers for funding his programs? Your mind might melt on that challenge.

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[dogghr]

Yes, my bad - I was thinking tent worms.

We do have bag worms too, but I hardly ever see them on anything but cedar trees. Sorry for the confusion. My mind hasn't been right since watching the debate.....

Step away from the media, or the bag worms will have you for dinner.
Btw, this is 7 year locust crop year. They were hard on my stuff last time around. I'll have ck my cedars for these bag worms, never notice them and I have lots of cedars.

 

[Chainsaw]

Yes, my bad - I was thinking tent worms.

We do have bag worms too, but I hardly ever see them on anything but cedar trees. Sorry for the confusion. My mind hasn't been right since watching the debate.....

I’m with you Native; the debates made me feel bad that I had shortchanged myself also. You should have aspired to be president and I’d have been your Vice President. The debates showed us that the bar is not set very high. But then we would not have had time to grow deer.

 

[Native Hunter]

I’m with you Native; the debates made me feel bad that I had shortchanged myself also. You should have aspired to be president and I’d have been your Vice President. The debates showed us that the bar is not set very high. But then we would not have had time to grow deer.

We could promise a backstrap in every skillet, but 80% of the population wouldn't understand....

 

[George]

Or a 170" under every tree stand.

G

 

[Native Hunter]

Or a 170" under every tree stand.

G

You just got my vote...………..

 

[George]

I looked at those bags for 10 years in Iowa and never knew what they were.

Bacillus thuringiensis a biological insecticide that will kill the worms and not other insects.

G