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Bugs are back!

guido

guido

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Hello,

A couple of years ago they attached themselves on one of my spruce tree. Now they are back at my Cypress trees. Any kind of spray I can use?


Guido.
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Had them a few years ago on the hedges. Hand picked all of the buggers off the bushes. If you catch them early give them a heavy dose spray of pyrethrin spray. This is when they are still making those cocoons. By now it is too late. Hand pick them. Then you can have the fun of dunking them in a bucket of gasoline. Kill them all! If you don't get all of them they CAN kill your ornamental bushes. Picture shows what they can do to you bushes.
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thuricide is a worm killer bacteria that only affects worms. the bagworms are eating your bushes to death. if you spray them with thuricide it will kill the bagworms. another name for thuricide is dipel. It will also kill hornworms.
 
Guido,
Best way to get rid of sack worms is to get rid of the trees.

I'm tired of tree and shrub maintenance.

I got rid of mine and very glad I did.

Easy work for a terramite to pull them out or dig the bigger ones.

Sack worms killed some of my trees.

The older I get the more I HATE trees. They fall on buildings, have to clean up sticks, leafs and pay a fortune to have the older trees cut down. Worse, after a major storm, they take power lines down.
 
Yup. Bagworms and they're out in force. You could spray them with Lorsban and they'll turn up their toes in 24 hours.
 
Hello Geo-TH,In,

I picked every one of those worms I could see. By the way The trees, about 36 of them, are spaced about 4 to 5 feet apart in a 250 foot section. They are a good privacy fence, and I intend to keep them. The terramite would make a short work to get them out, But I don't like fences. 8 to 16 feet tall and they were not cheap 15 years ago,

Guido.
 
Guido,
The older I get the more I HATE trees.

This tree was 5 trees growing out of one stump.

It shows signs of lightning damage.

$1100 to cut it down, clean up mess and grind stump.

In my lifetime, I've spent tens of thousand having trees removed.

Tree was taller than the bucket truck can go.


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Many places showed lightning damage.

I could show pics of tree damage.



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Bagworms. I usually got them when the butterflies come by on the way south. The drought we had several years ago modified their flight pattern and no more worms for awhile. Seems they are coming back as I noticed some recently.

They like my Cedar trees which have grown to some 40' high and I have 160 of them around my house protecting it from road noise/dust and North winds in the winter.

I go to HD or Lowes and buy the common garden pest spray that is said to kill 250 bugs....one is Bayer in the blue container with red label the other is Spectro something in the black container with red top and label. Mix it 1-2% with water and get after it. Kills them deader than a doornail.
 
After finishing off the gabbing session this AM, I went outside and checked and I had clumps of them in several places. So off to the barn got the Spectracide black bottle, red top, green label, kills 250 bugs, about $12 at Lowes or HD, pured 4 oz into my 4 gallon sprayer on the back of my Gator...ette (old JD L110 with the deck removed, snow stud 2 ply, low pressure balloon tires for soft ride, I use for my go-do vehicle equipped with 4 gallon spray tank and 60 psi, 1 or so gpm pump, usually used to spray Fire Ant mounds when I am about the place on other business or deliberately out to murder those suckers). (How long is that sentence?)

It reaches about 30 feet and was enough to hit these babies. On the way in this evening I stopped at a spot that was heavily infested, plucked a bag off a limb, cut it open...tuff silk on those bags but I got it open and the worm was deader than a door nail. Wink. Mission accomplished.
 
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