pollen or caterpillar poop? - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

Bigcat · 06-03-2005, 06:36 PM

Can someone please tell me what the heck all the black pepper like stuff that is falling like rain and making a mess is. I think it is falling from my oak trees?
It falls every year but this season is brutal

Backbeach Jake · 06-03-2005, 07:35 PM

Caterpillar crap looks like grapenuts. I don't eat that cereal anymore after I realized that.

Raven · 06-03-2005, 07:35 PM

is meant to fly with the wind for miles

not rain down to the ground.

i.d say its pillar poopies

ProfessorM · 06-03-2005, 08:17 PM

It is either gypsy moth crap or the winter moth crap. I see you live on Cape so I suspect winter moth, which is supose to be bad on Cape. Oaks are the food of choice. I got same problem here, gypsy moth's. House gutters are full up. Several oaks are just about completely defoliated now. Things are crawling all over the house and porch. Comes in cycles. PIA. Paul

Got Stripers · 06-04-2005, 08:22 AM

I hate that crap and I do mean crap, even running the truck through the car wash can't get it off. It's a pain this time of year.

ProfessorM · 06-09-2005, 02:38 PM

Well most all my oaks are denuded now. the damn catapillars have eaten everything

What really pissed me off was I went out to look at my blueberries and the MFers are eating them too. Now I take my blueberry growing serious so I got a broom and started to crush the suckers. They are easy to kill in the daytime because they come down from the tree in the day and congregate on the trunk and then start back up the tree to start eating the crap out of the tree at night. I went around to all the oaks and must have killed 10,000 of the suckers with the broom. They are real big now so it was easy picking, they just sit there and the broom is a great killing machine, leaf rake works good too. The problem is all the damage has been done but I got some satisfaction out of it until on the last tree I got stung by one of those white tipped wasp's. Man did that hurt

Oh well I just can't win. Paul

Raven · 06-09-2005, 02:54 PM

but not blueberrys, you should spray them with bacillus thuringesis
catapillar spray....(SAFER PRODUCT) i bought mine at worms way... to stop catapillars from eating my broccolli.... works MINT. saferbrand.com