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Dick Durand
05-12-2016, 08:03 PM
They're back in action; I noticed the car (parked under a maple tree) was covered with droppings.

Sea Dangles
05-13-2016, 07:28 AM
Spray them
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ProfessorM
05-13-2016, 07:31 PM
I hate the friggin things. I sprayed my blueberries a few weeks back but I think I was a week late by the look of the dead buds.
Mosquito's out in force too in my area.

nightfighter
05-26-2017, 04:26 PM
A year later. Still infested. Sick of the droppings all over the vehicles. Had my tree sub come in and remove two large leaders that hung over the driveway, initially because of the caterpillar droppings. But after we saw the condition of these leaders, I think we dodged a bullet. Hollow for most of them. The base of one, in the second pic, was only held together by an inch of live sapwood......

Guppy
05-26-2017, 05:42 PM
I had the property sprayed too late, the wife caught this
http://www.capecodtimes.com/news/20170523/gypsy-moths-bring-unwelcome-rash-for-some

piemma
06-03-2017, 10:52 AM
Spray them
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That's fine if you have 1/2 an acre. I have 15 acres of Oak. No use as my neighbors also have 15 acres each and the guy in back of me has 42 acres. They will just migrate from their acreage to mine.

Sea Dangles
06-03-2017, 11:57 AM
Well, just spray the trees near your house or car.
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nightfighter
08-30-2017, 06:05 PM
Is it me, or are the leaves falling earlier than normal? Especially from those trees that were attacked by those caterpillars.

Guppy
08-30-2017, 07:12 PM
Is it me, or are the leaves falling earlier than normal? Especially from those trees that were attacked by those caterpillars.

You're so far north it's probably right on schedule :wavey: