Thoughts on Forest Tent Caterpillars
Greene County CCE educator Bob Beyfuss come up with this fact sheet of options for landowners facing Forest Tent Caterpillar (FTC) issues.
Thoughts on Forest Tent Caterpillars
He has also developed a powerpoint presentation for town meetings he has conducted.
This presentation will soon be added to our Community Horticulture lending library exclusively for CCE staff. Contact Max Welcome mw45@cornell.edu to borrow material.
Holdings of the library are listed at: http://staff.cce.cornell.edu/topics/hort/commhort/index.htm
Lori Bushway | CCE County Programs
We had most of our 100 acres picked clean from the Forest Tent Caterpillars last spring; we couldn’t even go out of the house without them crawling all over us. Is there anything can we do now to prevent another spring like that?
Is there something we can spray on the house and surrounding foliage that will kill the egg sacks or kill them when and if they hatch this spring.
Thank you,
Barb Ianuzi
# 315-662-3873
Check out Eastern tent caterpillar entry in the Cornell Guide to Management of Trees and Shrubs: http://ipmguidelines.org/treesandshrubs/
Also from SUNY-ESF: http://www.esf.edu/pubprog/tentcaterpillars/