Cob Webs on Trees

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Originally Posted by Hillcountry

Usually, these are gypsy moth caterpillars.
Burn these with a torch so they won’t hatch and next year spread Tree Tanglefoot around each trunk. It’s sticky stuff that stops them climbing the trunk to get to the branches where they make their “webs”

Seems like quite a few of them up this way this year. Been cleaning their little black poop off the deck all week. Back in the early 80's there were so many down in mass, that you could literally hear them chewing the leaves