webworms: Bag the Bag Worms Naturally! - 06/22/10 02:56 AM
Ella Fitzgerald sang it best.  "Summertime...and the livin' is eeeasssyyyy...."  I love summertime.  And I love the music of Ella Fitzgerald. 
What I don't love is what we call summertime "bag worms" or "web worms".  These little nasties show up about June and begin spinning their thick silky web worm webs in our trees.  If you don't remove them, they can strip a tree of all of its' leaves quickly.
Here is a young web worm nest that we found in our River Birch tree the other day.  You can see that they have already begun to kill the leaves.

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