Jeesh, I had almost forgotten about bagworms since our cedar trees are gone. I'm with you -- hate them, hate them, hate them. My kids and I were picking them off a small cedar tree when someone stopped and asked what we were harvesting. They were certainly welcome to our crop!

Someone told me to just spray at a certain time of the year to kill them. Not too easy when the trees they were destroying were 40 feet tall. We lost two huge old cedars.

Just stopped a moment for a short break on the computer, was on my way out into the garden to do what? Harvest bagworms! We have not had any for several years, but now a large juniper is infestet. Yuck, double yuck.

Some years they are bag here, but haven't been the last couple. I need to recheck however, since I live in the same general area as Tibs. The most important thing you can do to control pests and to actually look for them. LOL.

I do see tent caterpillars starting, mostly in my orchards. Time for the broom, so the birds can get in to do their job.

As an afterthought, whatever they use to cement their bags to branches should be replicated for superglue. Billy Mays could have sold it on the air. One bagworm took a wrong turn and crawled up the side of our house and attached her home to the stucco. That has been four years ago, and just out of reach. It's still hanging up there, unphased by a broom handle.

Tent Caterpillars always hit my wild cherry trees out at the lake and the Yellow-billed Cuckoo loved them.

I used to sit on the porch and cheer them on while they
dined on the nasty things.