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It's a problem that could leave your trees dead. This year, homeowners may be seeing more bagworms. They're threatening trees around the area. "We hadn't had bagworms in over 25 years then all of a ...

Q: We just discovered an arborvitae that has turned brown at the top...seemingly overnight! Upon inspection, it was covered in bagworms at the top. We picked as many as we could up to 6 feet and got a ...

Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformis, commonly known as bagworms, will quickly destroy evergreens and shrubs when left untreated. If you have evergreens in your landscape, you are most likely familiar with ...

“Why are the pinecones on my tree moving?” a client asks. “Because those aren’t pinecones, they’re bagworms,” I reply. Dangling from evergreens like teardrop-shaped Christmas tree ornaments, bagworms ...

Bagworms have arrived in portions of Kansas, meaning now is the time to start scouting susceptible species for feeding damage. First noted in the Wichita area, young larvae will soon be hatching and ...

Did you ever play hide-and-seek as a kid? I’m sure many of you did. A common landscape pest plays, well, just “hide” with us on our evergreens – the bagworm. The insect does it not by hiding in the ...

A bagworm clings to an evergreen tree in downtown Lawrence on Tuesday, August 19, 2008. Sunshine illuminates webworms clinging to a tree in East Lawrence. Picking bagworms from trees can be a tedious ...

Over the last two to three months I have fielded the following question at least 30 times: "When is the time to spray for bagworms?" Because my standard answer is Memorial Day, and Memorial Day was ...

Bagworms on an arborvitea. For larger bags, handpicking them off the plant is the best method of removal. Johnson County K-State Research & Extension It is one of the most easily identified insects ...

Submitted photo Shown is the damage done by bagworms. Destructive bagworm populations have exploded in our area over the last few years and are sadly destroying many people’s backyard landscapes. I am ...