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Elizabeth
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Posted: Aug 14 2005 at 10:28am \| IP Logged

It's about a million degrees outside with 85 percent humidity and I've just discovered that our trees are infested with bagworms. There are ten trees and there are many, many bagworms on each tree. I really don't relish the thought of handpicking, even with my kids to help.

What do I do about bagworms??

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Posted: Aug 14 2005 at 5:55pm \| IP Logged

I feel your disgust, Elizabeth. I don't know about bagworms but here we have Pecan Webworms.
I remember my father wrapping newspaper around a broom stick, soaking it in gasoline (or kerosene) and lighting it. He'd hold it close to the nest just enough to smoke and scorch the nest. It was a yearly chore.

We'd have those little varmits walking in steady processions aross our yard, across the brick porch and into the house. Opening the door was a precarious situation. WE had to kick or squish them out the door before closing it. They even walked up the outside of the house. Bad thing with pecan worms are they will sting.

I cannot read about the grasshoppers heading west in Little House on Plum Creek without thinking of pecan worms. I have a small idea of how Laura felt and have often wondered if those pecan worms were headed west.

They don't seem to be the pests that they were in my childhood but we have several pecan trees here and, if you include all the neighbor's, it's still a yearly control issue.

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Posted: Aug 14 2005 at 8:46pm \| IP Logged

Elizabeth wrote:

What do I do about bagworms??

Move?

I am not sure I even know what a bagworm is but I don't like the sound of it. You have my deepest sympathy. I am a total wimp about buggy stuff.

My ants don't seem like such a big deal now.

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Posted: Aug 14 2005 at 9:10pm \| IP Logged

Here's a short, but useful, article with some suggestions for bagworm control. If the problem is as pervasive as it sounds, I would look in to hiring a professional--none of us have time for these problems!

By the way, Cay, your pecan webworms remind me of our Gypsy Moths. I remember my father burning the nests out of our appletree with kerosene exactly as you describe. One year, the gypsy moths were so prevalent that whole forests were wiped out in upstate New York. I remember seeing the nests and then, later on, dead trees for miles. Our apple tree survives to this day though!

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