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What are the dangling pine-cone-ish? egg cases(??) - Carey - 06-23-2010
OK, have been wondering this for a few years & in the summers usually do a half hearted web search attempt to find out....
But this year we have a bumper crop of little ~0.5 in pinecone looking things that I suspect are spider egg cases decorating all of our eves & window ledges....
Does any one know what the heck they are & who (species) they belong to ....
probably will still just sweep them away... but I kinda want to know what they are....
RE: What are the dangling pine-cone-ish? egg cases(??) - tptplyr1 - 06-23-2010
I think they are bag worms.
dean
RE: What are the dangling pine-cone-ish? egg cases(??) - StillHope - 06-23-2010
Open a bag of worms?[
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Whatever you assume,please
just ask a question first.
RE: What are the dangling pine-cone-ish? egg cases(??) - Lin W - 06-23-2010
I thought the little haystack cocoons were pupae of stinging nettle caterpillars, they hatch into a dusty tan kind of hump-backed moth. Now, I have no idea where I got that idea, if someone told me or I read it somewhere??? Looked for a photo online with no luck. The spider eggs I'm familiar with here in HPP are the flat fluorescent green ones the crab spiders spin, lots and lots of those.
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Originally posted by Carey
OK, have been wondering this for a few years & in the summers usually do a half hearted web search attempt to find out....
But this year we have a bumper crop of little ~0.5 in pinecone looking things that I suspect are spider egg cases decorating all of our eves & window ledges....
Does any one know what the heck they are & who (species) they belong to ....
probably will still just sweep them away... but I kinda want to know what they are....
use it up, wear it out, make it do, do without
RE: What are the dangling pine-cone-ish? egg cases(??) - Lin W - 06-24-2010
Happily, looks like I am wrong and dean is right - bagworms. These are the little critters, aren't they?
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/johnston/homehort2/pests.html (scroll down, just past fire ants)
use it up, wear it out, make it do, do without
RE: What are the dangling pine-cone-ish? egg cases(??) - Carey - 06-24-2010
Thats them! thanks everyone for a mystery solved (never had even heard of bagworms, stranger yet, we have none of their LIISTED favorite foods....they are all around our house...& I have never noticed them in any of our plants (but it does seem like they are very easy to miss....soooo back to brooming
Thanks to Lin & tptplyr1