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Gypsy Moths Everywhere

Boots

Boots

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Has anyone ever seen it this bad? Can't even go for a bike ride/hike in the forests without finding a bunch of the caterpillars on me. If they were on the ground I wouldn't mind but they're hanging from trees and they easily get on the face or if you have your mouth open you get a little protein snack.

Last year was pretty bad as well I remember mid summer the white moths were everywhere it looked like snow in the middle of the forest.

Edit: Forgot to mention even when I park near a forest I come back to my car to find a bunch of them all over my car.
 
They go in ten year cycles. A lot of people in my neighborhood are putting duct tape around their trees trunks. They can climb down, but can't get back up. The people collect them and drown them in soapy water. imho it's pointless. There are billions of them.
 
Boots said:
Has anyone ever seen it this bad? Can't even go for a bike ride/hike in the forests without finding a bunch of the caterpillars on me. If they were on the ground I wouldn't mind but they're hanging from trees and they easily get on the face or if you have your mouth open you get a little protein snack.

Last year was pretty bad as well I remember mid summer the white moths were everywhere it looked like snow in the middle of the forest.

Edit: Forgot to mention even when I park near a forest I come back to my car to find a bunch of them all over my car.
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If they crap on your car the crap eats the paint.

Spongy moth

Information about gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar dispar), a forest defoliating insect found in Ontario.
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The crap is like sesame seeds. I need to blow the patio off daily. Without that, I doubt I could see the patio anymore. Still killing 1000 a day on two trees.
 
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BTK….but its out of stock in most places. I bought two bottles last year!
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My poor neighbour is distraught. She washed a car and wiped out in her driveway as the water plus frass made slime. Some parts of her blue pool cover are black and there are mounds in the pool that the robot is having trouble dealing with. I'm not sure if she has sand or media filters. If she has sand, I will see if she can vacuum and backwash daily.
 
GreyGhost said:
My poor neighbour is distraught. She washed a car and wiped out in her driveway as the water plus frass made slime. Some parts of her blue pool cover are black and there are mounds in the pool that the robot is having trouble dealing with. I'm not sure if she has sand or media filters. If she has sand, I will see if she can vacuum and backwash daily.
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Idk.

I recall driving down a country road near Lake Scugog one night and wondering what the "squick" noises were. I was running over frogs going from point A to point B. Glad I wasn't on the bike.
 
nobbie48 said:
Idk.

I recall driving down a country road near Lake Scugog one night and wondering what the "squick" noises were. I was running over frogs going from point A to point B. Glad I wasn't on the bike.
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Blech. One night run to cottage country was a frog massacre. Thousands of them on the road. No way to avoid them. Power through, try not to slide off the road and wash the goo off the next day. No idea what triggered it and Thankfully I have never seen it again.
 
GreyGhost said:
My poor neighbour is distraught. She washed a car and wiped out in her driveway as the water plus frass made slime. Some parts of her blue pool cover are black and there are mounds in the pool that the robot is having trouble dealing with. I'm not sure if she has sand or media filters. If she has sand, I will see if she can vacuum and backwash daily.
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I have a few more pests on my plants than in previous years. Something is attacking my oriental lillys that I haven’t seen before. I thought it was bird crap at first all over them but it was some kind of bug or aphids. It’s stripped the leaves. Also got an aphid outbreak on some flowers too. Used gardeners soap on those along with the BTK. Hopefully that sees 5o the issue.
 
Our yard is full of them. On our patio door and windows all over the side of the house. At least once a day we bring one in the house stuck to our shirt or in our hair. Even our dogs don't enjoy being outside.
 
nobbie48 said:
They did it in Etobicoke a few years back and we were given warnings to take any precautions we felt necessary. There may have been some guidelines.
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Yes, that is the one I am talking about (I am in Etobicoke). It was actually a few years running and I am pretty sure they did it in 2020 but I did not see anything for 2021. May have just come down to budget cuts... So far though, I have not had as big a problem as other people have had this year, we will see next year.
 
They're getting pretty big and juicy now (this one is ~2"long and more than 1/4" in body diameter [not including hair]). Most pop when you stab them. Pic of my neighbours driveway that she cleaned yesterday evening. That's the new poo.

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Down to hundreds a day climbing the two trees instead of ~1000. Top of oak is stripped bare, middle is looking sparse, they are focussing on the lower branches now. I can now knock a few hundred a day off the lower branches of that tree.

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Need to upgrade to PPE. They are so juicy I get sprayed and one got me in the eyes.
 
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I kill 1,000-2,000 every day off our house/garage. Doubt it's making much of a difference in helping the trees they go to at night but it helps keeping their web off the house (shed close to the trees is covered in it now).
Wife runs over them on the roadway with the stroller and says there's some satisfaction there :)
 
Hardwrkr13 said:
I kill 1,000-2,000 every day off our house/garage. Doubt it's making much of a difference in helping the trees they go to at night but it helps keeping their web off the house (shed close to the trees is covered in it now).
Wife runs over them on the roadway with the stroller and says there's some satisfaction there :)
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I was hoping they were on the downswing but there was an explosion today. Ground rippling. Can't even count them on the trees. It's like trying to scrape off jello with a stick. Blech. I went out twice today and I am well into the thousands. Probably get to 10,000 killed today on two trees. Hell, I killed 37 at one time climbing a metal light pole. Next year I'm buying bacteria. F this manual genocide.

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Omg. Too many to squish last time. ~2' of trunk where you couldn't see the bark. Tried knocking them into a bucket. Too slow, they like to hang on. Mixed up 4 gallons of soap and water. That did it.
 
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