Ugh, one of my everygreen bushes is infested with something I've never seen before. They are worms similar to web worms, but instead of a web, each is hiding inside a little coccoon that sort of looks like a little pine cone. Horrifyingly, these little dangling cones swing around and move as the worms inside move.

Every time I go to look at that garden it makes me sick. Used to be an adorable everygreen bush, but they seem to be digesting it.

GROSS!

Definitely have seen less japanese beetles this year but I have been using beneficial nematodes for two years so maybe they are actually working!!

Laurabs, you have been infested with bag worms. Google them to see how to control. Left unchecked they can strip your evergreen bare. You can just pull them off if you prefer not to spray.

If anyone has less bugs in their yard, it's because they're in mine. Just when I thought my JB's were gone, they've come back. Apparently, they'd eaten all the blooms on my roses so they went somewhere else for a while, once the poor bushes began to recover and start putting out some beautiful blooms, the buggers were back. Sigh, what they didn't eat, I killed with the stupid Bayer product. It's been a very disheartening year.

But, my lantana still looks great. My annuals are flourishing. My dianthus is multiplying like it's a bunny, and the hydrangeas I planted are totally leafed out and seem to have established themselves. Everything else, my hibiscus, rose of sharon and all my roses, dead or dying. SIGH!!

Thanks, tomatomike. I didn't know bag worms made little coccoons, but that is certainly what the worms inside look like, from what I can see. I have to do something since I suppose they will next infest my nearby jap cedar, which is 30 feet tall!

I thought web worms were the most disgusting. Shudder.