Pressure washer do anything?
I guess picnics in the park might not be a winner's choice.
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Gypsy Moths Everywhere
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Pressure washer do anything?
I guess picnics in the park might not be a winner's choice.
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Malks
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They are awful up here in Orangeville too. Driving a golf cart around Hockley you need to leave the window up to stop the hanging ones from getting all over you as you drive along the cart paths through the trees. I've been stepping on hundreds of them as I tend to the tee decks.
Pressure washer probably chops them up. I expect I would be coated in caterpillar goo after. May try a pressure washer to knock some pupae down once they stop squirming.
Get those white painting outfits or a rain suit. That should help…a bit.
I wonder about Tanglefoot. It's a sticky goo they put on ledges to discourage birds. It's like a sticky grease and the birds don't like the feeling of having their feet trapped. I assume the caterpillars dislike the sticky side out tape for the same reason.
Edit: There's a bug version
I'm thinking that the goo has to be sticky but not permanently. If a caterpillar got permanently stuck it's carcass would be a non sticky path for the next one and so on until the barrier was breached.
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My neighbour has put tuck tape on, sticky side out, on the few trees he cars about. He goes out every so often and brushes the caterpillars off the area below the tape into a bucket of soapy water. Some get by the first layer of tape, but he has another higher up, and another at the joint where the branches start. seems to be working. I have hundreds of trees, and if I lose a couple, I just have extra firewood.
Are you getting a lot of birds too fat to fly?
Thought maybe they were slowing down but today was a whole new level of these things. I kill 1-2,000 each evening but this evening as I was leaving the house there were so many it wasn't even worth trying. As I headed down the road they were crossing the roads for the next few km's in waves. I must have run over 100+ just on that drive.
My Birch trees are starting to show the wear from these things.
My Birch trees are starting to show the wear from these things.
Parts of a local golf course and some parks look like winter. No leaves to be seen.0
Is there a map or guide to the infestation areas? Hiking, camping and picnics would suck if your equipment started crawling away as soon as you put it down.
My wife saw one or two of the caterpillars here in Etobicoke but not enough to discourage a walk. If a walk or hike meant coming home with squashed bugs up to the ankles I'd pass on the outing.
My wife saw one or two of the caterpillars here in Etobicoke but not enough to discourage a walk. If a walk or hike meant coming home with squashed bugs up to the ankles I'd pass on the outing.
Camping right now in awanda park and there is a carpet of them. And they rain down from the trees today actually seems to be better than it was Saturday. The trees will recover it is just gross being constantly covered in caterpillars.lots of people seem to have left after 1 night park is almost empty put lots of non expired permits.
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My Mom lives beside Awenda and I’ve been through there quite a few times when all the oak trees have been completely defoliated. They can take that one year, but over and over will kill the trees for sure.
We also have really seen any on our street but they’ll come…
this was posted on Reddit from High Park…2 weeks ago the trees were full…
for some reason GTAM won’t let me post the photo..
this was posted on Reddit from High Park…2 weeks ago the trees were full…
for some reason GTAM won’t let me post the photo..
Suck it up seems to be the message. Wear hats and long sleeve shirts to keep the bugs and their poop off of you.
The lockdown may be ending but who want to go out for a walk in the poop? Outdoor dining shared with drop in bugs. May clear up by August.
The lockdown may be ending but who want to go out for a walk in the poop? Outdoor dining shared with drop in bugs. May clear up by August.
Friends a few blocks away cannot use their rear yard at all. The trees are now bare but the poop layer is inches thick. They have all wiped out in the poop after a rain. It gets really greasy.
They are starting to congregate in the tree armpits to make it easier to kill 10 at a time. It's like braveheart out there. Corpses everywhere. Many dangling off the tree and refusing to fall. Fresh bodies climbing over the carpet of corpses and then using their fallen brethren as a ladder going up the tree.
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