Gypsy Moths Are Destroying Forests as the Climate Dries

[ckf]

I seem to remember people putting crisco around the base of the trees that they didn't want them to eat back in the 80's

[Catalina]

Sevin does help. can't spray a 60 foot tree without dousing yourself. 

 

Back to the original premise - Gypsy moths were a HUGE problem here in the early 80's, when global warming was a twinkle in Al Gore's eye. Just saying. 

[Capt.Storm]

1 minute ago, ckf said:

I seem to remember people putting crisco around the base of the trees that they didn't want them to eat back in the 80's

I dunno.

But sevin in a jug hooked to your garden hose will work.

you're going to spray more then once though.

Edited July 13, 2016 by Capt.Storm

[Catalina]

1 minute ago, ckf said:

I seem to remember people putting crisco around the base of the trees that they didn't want them to eat back in the 80's

Crisco, Vaseline, Cresote, motor oil, I think my father-in-law had some Agent Orange laying around that he used. Some of the stuff probably did more damage then the bugs. 

[Catalina]

I remember armies of the caterpillars climbing up the sides of houses, they were completely black there were so many. 

[Anler]

Immigrant moths? We need to build a wall!

[Catalina]

Actually, all we would need to build is a screen. 

[ckf]

1 hour ago, Anler said:

Immigrant moths? We need to build a wall!

 

35 minutes ago, Catalina said:

Actually, all we would need to build is a screen. 

[old indy]

20 hours ago, ckf said:

I seem to remember people putting crisco around the base of the trees that they didn't want them to eat back in the 80's

crisco, tin foil,  vaseline, tree goo , grease...  you name it was put on tree trunks.  didnt help much. if the branches touched another tree it did nothing, they are like ants marching.

I buzzed down to cape cod yesterday to do some shell fishing and the median strip on 28 over the Bourne bridge looks like it was hit with agent orange or something, pines, oaks, dont matter its all stripped.