Jonzjob Posted February 24, 2007 Author Share Posted February 24, 2007 Hi Chico, I too think that your French neighbour has been led up the garden path if he has been told that sticky strips will stop the moths laying. It may well stop the catapillars coming down the tree to pupate though?The moths lay their eggs in the lower branches in the early autumn. You can see an example of the egg cluster on the first link on my first post on this thread. It's a long cluster of eggs on a pine needle. It's a good photo and just like the ones I have seen. Just pull them off and crush them under foot. They are not very high. As they grow they move further up the tree, so if you can spot them early it's much easier to get rid of them. With all the damage that is being done now I wonder if the government will do anything to get rid of them? Peut etra par? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 Well when I went to the Mairie (in Bedoin - in the Vaucluse) to inquire about anything being done, they certainly didn't seem to care. Neither did the Forestry Office. I found it amazing. The cocoons are everywhere round Bedoin and along the foothills of Mt. Ventoux.No one seems to care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugsy Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 Interesting thread this.Found this site on Google and it has some good photos of these 'pesky critters'http://web.cortland.edu/fitzgerald/PineProcessionary.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonzjob Posted February 25, 2007 Author Share Posted February 25, 2007 [quote user="Jonzjob"] Hi folks, for once I'm being serious. It's time for the pine processionaries to rear their lovely little heads again. http://web.cortland.edu/fitzgerald/PineProcessionary.html it's just one of dozens of sites about them.Another site from Spain. Please forgive me for pinching it Louweezel http://www.valenciatrader.com/index.php?sectionid=87&contentid=7567&parentid=102 Take care, it's a jungle out there (where have I heard that before?)[/quote]Oh please BB, do pay attention!![:D][B]. The quote above is about the site that I refered to in my opening post for this thread and again just before your reference in my last posting.[Www].. It's a very interesting site too ain't it!!If you are interested then this is a wonderful peice of research done by a Frenchman called J Henri Fabre in about 1916. It's a very interesting story and well worth the read. http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/jhf/c01.html . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugsy Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 Ooop's, sorry, it's an age-related thing.........................[:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chateau Miaou Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 I've just found this pic I took of the wee . . . creatures last spring [before I realized quite how dangerous they are [:(]] - I couldn't get them all in the shot, but there must have been a couple of hundred anyway. . .[IMG]http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t240/ChateauMiaou/La%20Sapiniere/Wildlife/PineProcessionaryCaterpillars.jpg[/IMG]. . . I'm getting the burner ready for them this year! [+o(] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Unbelievable !!!Gross.. too.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 Last night on the news they showed the army having to deal with them in Belgium, it is so bad. They said they were in oak trees.Cattle were being kept indoors because of them. http://www.rtl.be/page/rtlinfo/articles/societearticle/227.aspx?lg=1&articleid=74245 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonzjob Posted June 5, 2007 Author Share Posted June 5, 2007 Almost the same thing Christine, but they are oak processionary catapillars and they do cause a lot of damage in the oak forests in Portugal!! I have not seen these but they sound just as dangerous!I didn't know that they were that far North... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 They say that it's due to the climate change, it was north-west Belgium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonzjob Posted June 5, 2007 Author Share Posted June 5, 2007 Christine, I would love to have been a 'fly on the wall' at the end of the last ice age listening to the scientists talking about global warming? I have always wondered when they will realise that it's all happened before...In the mid 1800s it was reconed that London would come to a complete halt. Not because there were so many people but because London would be 4 foot deep in horse muck. That didn't happen either. I'll bet there were some lovely roses about though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 We'll have to wait and see then ! [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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