Re: Processionary caterpillars

> The processionary caterpillars in my garden are very much reduced by removing their nests, usually by removing the whole branch as the local amateur tree surgeons here claim - though I can't see there's any truth in it - that the larvae bury their way down to the base of the branch, so that unless you remove everything you still have the problem. It sounds potty to me - pine is much too resiny and tough to bury into, surely. Does anyone know the truth of the matter??
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> However, this drastic action doesn't seem to have affected the pines too much aesthetically, and has severely reduced our caterpillar attacks. I can vouch for their deadliness - I have a very silly English Setter and she decided that these caterpillars
> would make a tasty morsel. She is lucky to be alive as we found her straight away and swept her off to the vets, but she lost the front and sides of her tongue which basically rotted away.
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> Anthony
> Bari, Italy
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