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Jun 11, 2018 11:26:55   #
wormtownspawn
 
in the last week. these trees have been stripped of all their leaves.







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Jun 11, 2018 11:39:58   #
Shellback Loc: North of Cheyenne Bottoms Wetlands - Kansas
 
Wow - hungry little things -

Where is this?

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Jun 11, 2018 11:43:45   #
wormtownspawn
 
Worcester ma. near the airport .

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Jun 11, 2018 11:46:14   #
Shellback Loc: North of Cheyenne Bottoms Wetlands - Kansas
 
wormtownspawn wrote:
Worcester ma. near the airport .

Thanks -

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Jun 11, 2018 11:51:47   #
sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri
 
Holy-Moly..! Lucky for us they are vegetarians.

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Jun 11, 2018 11:52:54   #
wnclkevans
 
Gypse moths. Located in the north east USA. The trees will put out some new leaves,but it weakens the tree.

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Jun 11, 2018 12:14:21   #
TBerwick Loc: Houston, Texas
 
We have the same phenomenon in Texas periodically but with a caterpillars that spins a silk (web) trail. They will literally cover everything with their "web" after stripping an oak tree. Took the trees 2 years to recover. Nature is sometimes amazing to watch.

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Jun 11, 2018 12:19:50   #
Dave327 Loc: Duluth, GA. USA
 
About 35 years back the gypsy moth catipillars stripped all the leafed trees and then went to the fir trees. Many of those were stripped so bad they did not survive. The deciduous trees were all leafed out by late July. This was in central MA. I lived in Berlin, MA at the time. It was very strange to see no leaves in early July. I hope this outbreak is not as bad as that one was.

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Jun 11, 2018 12:32:50   #
wnclkevans
 
Gypse moths. Located in the north east USA. The trees will put out some new leaves,but it weakens the tree.

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Jun 11, 2018 16:30:59   #
newtoyou Loc: Eastport
 
It all started in 1869 with less than a hundred escapees in Bedford Mass.

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Jun 11, 2018 19:53:06   #
repleo Loc: Boston
 
wormtownspawn wrote:
in the last week. these trees have been stripped of all their leaves.


OH NO!! I was hoping we would escape this year. They were really bad two years ago and we lost a lot of trees. Loosing the trees is bad enough, but everything gets covered in greasy poppy seed sized poop which is really disgusting.

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Jun 12, 2018 07:12:20   #
nimbushopper Loc: Tampa, FL
 
Gypsy moth caterpillars, a terrible scourge that will strip many acres of trees(especially oaks) bare. They have no natural enemies.

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