Re: NYers beware: tent caterpillars

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• Subject: Re: [CHAT] NYers beware: tent caterpillars
• From: Pam Evans g*@gmail.com
• Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 21:41:41 -0500
• In-reply-to: 19f.33647f22.2faffb5e@aol.com
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LOL - girlfriend - you got some lazy birdies in your neighborhood.  
Mine are well fed (some are pretty fat) but they will eat bugs, grubs,
snails and loopers and such too.
  

On 5/8/05, EvaTEsq@aol.com <EvaTEsq@aol.com> wrote:
> I wish the birds and other creatures in my yard were that ambitious.   The
> caterpillars would have my trees knawed down to the branches before the  birds
> figured out they were there.  I live in a suburban neighborhood and  around
> here the birds like to have their food handed to them in a pretty bird  feeder.
> 
> Eva
> Long  Island, NY
> Zone 6/7
> 
> In a message dated 5/8/2005 3:39:46  P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> pulis@mindspring.com writes:
> 
> Eva,
> 
> Why spray? If you break open the tent a bit, the birds and  other creatures
> will get them. I even had a parade of hornets carry off  every one a few
> years ago. And if the tent itself offends you, it's easy  just to cut it off
> of the branch.
> 
> No point in poisoning beneficial  insects and other critters just to get rid
> of  'em.
> 
> d
> 
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Kemp TX
zone 8A

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