We're getting a large number of these buggers this year, seems they run in cycles. All the fruit trees and alders are getting hit hard. I had the great (I thought) idea to cut them out of the chokecherry and toss the webs into the chicken yard. Turns out the hens made a beeline for the immature cherries but wouldn't even touch the caterpillars. Now I'll have to sneak in there when the rooster is elsewhere and retrieve all the webs before the caterpillars migrate over to the little mulberry sapling in the middle of the chicken yard! Guess I'll have to burn them. Is everyone getting them this year? Wondering how wide the range of infestation is.
