Re: catepillers

**Pat Meadows p*@meadows.pair.com**

On Sun, 5 Jun 2005 14:57:52 -0400, you wrote:

>Are you aware of the invasion of the catepillars in the Northeast?  When you
>look up at the Catskill Mountains, some of them have great brown patches
>where the damn bugs have eaten all the leaves from the trees.  There are a
>few green trees scattered here and there on the hills - but the predominant
>color is brown.  So sad.
>In my garden in Woodstock, New York they are crawling everywhere - even onto
>the doorstep.  Last night I pulled one from my hair when I came in from the
>garden.  The are not the wooly kind - they look like the kind that make
>tents - they are about 1 1/2 inches long and skinny.
>
>I am told the government hs released a special black fly that is supposed to
>eat the critters.  Hope it is so.
>
>I am spraying in my garden with all the bad stuff - Sevin and Bonide's
>Bacillus Thuringiensis and keeping my fingers crossed.  Anyone have any
>other suggestions.
>

Maybe gypsy moths?

http://www.fs.fed.us/ne/morgantown/4557/gmoth/

I haven't seen gypsy moths in a while, but they certainly
defoliated entire hillsides: actually they defoliated entire
landscapes.

Maybe tent caterpillars?

http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2022.html

Pat
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