Friday, August 8, 2008

Destructive Caterpillars

Do all caterpillars turn into butterfly's?

Soooo... I was outside last night, and saw all of these hanging off the trees. I thought .... wow why are there so many little dead pieces of the pine tree hanging?

I went over to take a closer look - I squeezed one and got the "willies" went it started moving!

Look at this thing - it's just laying around in its cocoon eating my tree. They ate more than 1/2 the leaves off my apple tree.

When you touch them they hide in their cocoons, and close up.

They need to go away - maybe if Ripley hadn't have killed all the new baby birds, they'd eat them. See what happens when the food chain is disrupted.

4 comments:

Roger Bennett said...

SEVIN

Should take care of the problem, but of course you'd rather have the willies scared out of you.

Anonymous said...

Those are downright disturbing and like something you would find in a damn horror movie...

I would douse the whole tree with gasoline and torch the little bastards...there are some things that just must go, collateral damage be damned.

Whitney said...

Yes, fairly creepy, Mason was watching with me and he was like "Holy Cow, look at those little aliens!", then I promply cracked up laughing...the stuff he says sometimes...

Anonymous said...

Some aliens are cuter than others! I say bring back the birds - ripley will have to mind is manners.