How to CONTROL GYPSY MOTHS

How to CONTROL GYPSY MOTHS - Ep. 032

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3 жыл бұрын

It's a really bad gypsy moth year and even though we can't save all of our trees from this invasive, defoliating, hairy monster-we're making a valiant attempt to control the gypsy moth from some of our prized trees. Here are some tips on how we're doing it.
If you have other methods you are using, feel free to share them in the comments below!
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@nadinecartwright1979 3 жыл бұрын

That song with the slo mo was perfect.

@FlockFingerLakes 3 жыл бұрын

That's Summer Rayne's music selection for you!

@LaviniaDeMortalium 3 жыл бұрын

Sander picking up on more and more plant knowledge has been so fun to watch.

@dagmarcirlan440 3 жыл бұрын

I love how the flock videos are getting also funny 😆

@FlockFingerLakes 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you like the humor! We're having fun (as you can tell)!

@greatmarloes 3 жыл бұрын

It's good to hear ya Sander😁👍

@JeraldBaliteTV 3 жыл бұрын

loved the music you used hahahaha, its so theatrical :P , those are so itchy in skin

@FlockFingerLakes 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah that's an SRO music selection. She's good at choosing the tunes.

@jeffreykeomany8447 3 жыл бұрын

Watching gypsy moths go flying away is oddly satisfying

@FlockFingerLakes 3 жыл бұрын

We couldn't agree more!

@greatmarloes 3 жыл бұрын

Love your creative ways of limiting the damage! It's inspiring to look for alternative ways instead of using pesticides. We've been having a lot of snail problems and are still thinking about how to work with/around them

@az77429 2 жыл бұрын

Buy a roll of insulation that is 4” thick with a paper backing. The insulation comes 16” wide and can be cut in half. I’ve put a 6” wide piece around the tree and no caterpillars have gotten pass this barrier.

@sanjananafday5317 3 жыл бұрын

Poor gypsy moths 😂! Editing on this one was A+

@2prettyfunnythings736 3 жыл бұрын

Great video. Learning and laughing 😝 what can be better. Another great music choice😂 🐛 😵‍💫☠️

@FlockFingerLakes 3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was educational. And the music-that's Summer Rayne's selection. She's good at the tunes!

@gregyerby5300 3 жыл бұрын

I never knew a video about caterpillars could be so entertaining!

@lindylou3519 3 жыл бұрын

Pests can really ruin the pleasure & pride we feel after planting a new tree or shrub. I’m finding the leaves of the young trees I planted early spring are getting munched on by something… & they were doing so well, sheesh!

@FlockFingerLakes 3 жыл бұрын

We were glad we limited planting this year with the bad gypsy moth year. Looks like Fall will be a better time to plant!

@sofiasalemi4260 3 жыл бұрын

Love all the questions that Sander asks !! :D

@fulfordpoint 3 жыл бұрын

Perfect timing for this video. I just discovered the caterpillars on my dear Oak yesterday. I killed as many as I could find and discovered how much the ants love the carcasses. I am going to follow your directions and collar the tree. I think I have been lucky as there are not many compared to north around the lakes. Cottagers say there are so many in the trees the excrement actually hit the roofs and cause sound. It is a bad year for the Gypsy Moth. Thanks for bringing knowledge!

@FlockFingerLakes 3 жыл бұрын

The hilltops here are absolutely denuded. (And the hilltops are primarily oak-hickory). It's a sad, sad sight. Let us know how the collaring works for you!

@alaaaaaaaaaaaan 3 жыл бұрын

I'm in the Catskills on a 22-acre property, and we have so many of the same issues here. These videos have been so informative and relatable. There are a bunch of things I am learning for the first time about the woods around me, or in this case, commiserating in some of the common pests problems.

@FlockFingerLakes 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah probably lots of synergies between here and the Catskills. You're not too far away! Glad some of this is educational.

@riawhetstone3725 3 жыл бұрын

Haha! Just saw one of these while hiking in NH last week but we couldn’t get a positive ID bc we didn’t have signals on our phones. I actually pointed at it & said “It’s your lucky day!” bc we spared it 😅

@cefcat5733 3 жыл бұрын

We used a stick to catch and gather them at our new country house in jars as kids. They were mostly in one place, hundreds of them. I guess we wiped them out in our yard, just due to our kids' curiosity. That was before we planted trees there. Hey, we did something right. Good luck! Now I can look up the Gypsy Moth and see what they are.

@billinct860 Жыл бұрын

The last and only infestation in my area was around 1981 I believe. I put masking tape on the trunks of trees on my lawn coated with Tanglefoot... a substance that is used on fly paper. This worked well for trees isolated from other trees. The remainder of trees that bordered my property were in contact with woods. That made banding useless as they just crawled from the trees contacting mine. For them I used Liquid Sevin, a garden insecticide. Connecticut did aerial spraying on selected patches too. All of the trees in the woods and in my town were stripped bare but those surrounding my property as high as my sprayer could reach remained green from the poison. By July it had ended, and it seemed every tree trunk and even houses had egg masses on them. A tiny parasitic wasp had been introduced that year along with other measures. I don't know what was responsible... but the Gypsy Moth never materialized the next year. All of the trees re-foliated by August as if nothing had happened.

@angygvalmo3342 3 жыл бұрын

6:58 Gypsy moth attack from the back!

@caroljohnson4723 3 жыл бұрын

So sorry you are experiencing this! Must have been devastating when you came back and saw the trees defoliated!

@Banano91f 3 жыл бұрын

They almost destroyed an oak forest here in Sardinia, thanks for sharing

@FlockFingerLakes 3 жыл бұрын

you're welcome. Hope the oak bounces back. They seem to really like the oak and beech family. Maples not so much.

@jsaysyay 3 жыл бұрын

gosh i remember a few years ago the were that dense on every vertical surface they could find, the last four years or so they’ve been in huge decline in my state from disease and such, makes sense in a way, it’s where they started, hopefully soon your moths will befall the same fate! which mind you, is a very weird thing to say if out of context lol

@monicareid8858 Жыл бұрын

Soooooooo satisfying to watch-hahaha!! Too bad you don’t have chickens to gobble them up ☀️

@thaifromthailand8808 3 жыл бұрын

Here in Thailand, I have the same problem on my 8 hectare farm but with termites. The local university gave me great ideas and solutions. Btw, Sanders have such beautiful blue eyes.

@parihav 3 жыл бұрын

Eventually, predators will adapt to go after these invasive species. But until then, we have to be creative in using techniques like you've shown to catch these pests using organic solutions.

@audreyjudd8196 3 жыл бұрын

The cheery song as the moths are being flung off. 🤣

@edsterjune5607 3 жыл бұрын

I feel you guys! My orchids were totally destroyed by rats for the past few weeks😑pests are such a pest..

@FlockFingerLakes 3 жыл бұрын

Oh man that is a total bummer. Summer had a mouse issue in Brooklyn, which was consuming her plants. Or at least nibbling them.

@fleigh2482 3 жыл бұрын

I understand that munching sound is actually them pooping and it hitting the leaves. Literally raining poop. They typically last for 2-3 years before bacteria starts to kill them off for another 10 years or so. Also in the Finger Lakes area.

@mayakiruluta2084 3 жыл бұрын

Omg 😳

@cascadeserenity3484 Жыл бұрын

Cinnamon works also to keep them from completing killing the tree. I sprinkle lots all around the base and then kill them as I see them.

@glwing1200 2 жыл бұрын

Hi from South Jersey. In high school 79-82 found a nature book in the library, it said Gypsy moth has a 7 year growth and decline control by Blue birds nesting. Low years Blue's lay 3 egg no food "Gypsy Low" then Gypsy go up Blue's Lay 7 eggs, lots of food for babies. No Pesticides just Birds House for Blue Bird.

@lalop123 3 жыл бұрын

I used to work my dad and his landscape business. Gypsy caterpillars sucked! We would knock them off with a metallic rake. It was flexible and would get a lot of the caterpillars off. Since the tree was defoliated, it didn’t matter that the rakes made the tree look weird. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Burned wood chips around the tree could help put off the caterpillars on the ground.

@thenorthernpalace261 3 жыл бұрын

Yay, more screen time for Sander!

@tanyal7122 3 жыл бұрын

The music is awesome. We have had many battle with those guys.

@FlockFingerLakes 3 жыл бұрын

Summer Rayne's special selection of music.

@Fabdanc 3 жыл бұрын

Do any birds eat the caterpillars? I am assuming that most do not like them because they are hairy... but that's invasives for you... lots of bugs to feed the birds, but none of them are tasty :-/

@FlockFingerLakes 3 жыл бұрын

Doesn't seem like any bird will touch them but we found out the fish in the pond like them. Now only if fish flew!

@janetwisecarver7804 3 жыл бұрын

Will any sent of Bronners soap work? Does it need to be a certain one? Ty

@brianandtamiolson2330 3 жыл бұрын

Summer, will these caterpillars 🐛 choose any type of tree or are they tree specific?

@suekuly4723 3 жыл бұрын

When I was a kid I used to LOVE climbing the trees and collecting these bastards…..now you won’t even get me near a tree with them in it! hahahaha

@m.k.9405 3 жыл бұрын

That was very entertaining 🙂👍 I got a question about prescribed burns. Are you going to apply prescribed burns on your land? Why or why not? Just curious. I know there are some benefits to it.

@FlockFingerLakes 3 жыл бұрын

Likely not much need to. We'll be managing our future meadow with mowing 1X / year and the forest will be more in recovery/regeneration phase. The only burning we've done so far is on the invasive bush honeysuckle and multiflora rose.

@FlyingFrog87 Жыл бұрын

Is there anything that eats them? When walnut caterpillars started defoliating our pecans a roadrunner showed up and started helping out by munching on a bunch of them. But then again, I don’t think walnut caterpillars sting.

@botanyboy5454 3 жыл бұрын

This means WAR ! Carry on brave soldiers ! 🤣

@marciloni12 3 жыл бұрын

There's an infestation of them in Canada, I'm in Ontario and they start off as ant size, black catterpillar. They haven't defoliated any of our trees but we have leaf and flower bud damage.

@FlockFingerLakes 3 жыл бұрын

We hope it's not as bad as here. Halfway between us though (Syracuse) it seems to be the worst.

@arunbangera2 3 жыл бұрын

Our next MIB (Men in Blue!!) sequel featuring summer and sander fighting alien moths 😎😎

@jasminush 3 жыл бұрын

Guys, you should use my grandma's secret :)) apply lime on the trunks in the spring.

@astridekko9229 3 жыл бұрын

Keeping you busy! So many things to do…

@kate481 2 жыл бұрын

Fun music! Haha!

@janetwisecarver7804 3 жыл бұрын

Why aren’t you spraying the Bronner mixture into the tree to eliminate the critters?

@BearMeat4Dinner 3 жыл бұрын

Will I have to worry about this up in Malone? Are you guys at Finger Lakes? I'm moving soon. Gotta keep an eye on this if I gotta deal with it with the 15 acres I have... :/

@FlockFingerLakes 3 жыл бұрын

They seem to be affecting the Finger Lakes fairly badly but not compared to other years.

@kindashin 2 жыл бұрын

watching they clump tgt is the most unsatisfying thing ever

@suebouchard8198 Ай бұрын

They wiped out my raspberry bushes

@BoldlyGrowHomestead 3 жыл бұрын

Can you let chickens out around the base after knocking them down?

@kareharpies 3 жыл бұрын

That's my question too 🤔

@FlockFingerLakes 3 жыл бұрын

Chickens don't seem to eat them, but our fish in the pond do!

@YunaOnHome 3 жыл бұрын

Is there a good predator for them?

@kareharpies 3 жыл бұрын

Can chickens/guinea hens eat them? I'm surprised you guys flick them off (giving them the chance to go elsewhere) instead of exterminating them.

@FlockFingerLakes 3 жыл бұрын

As you see, when you flick them, they all go back to the same tree and try to crawl up it. When they congregate there, we spray them with the Dr. Bronner solution. But from our experience, chickens won't eat them. But the fish in the pond will!

@mariafolch8067 2 жыл бұрын

@@FlockFingerLakes if you spray them while on the tree, would the Bronner soap affect the plant?

@peterkovachevich Ай бұрын

i feel your pain!

@mayakiruluta2084 3 жыл бұрын

Eeeee this reminds me of when we had tent caterpillars on our cherry blossom tree. Why can’t butterfly caterpillars do this instead of moths 😩

@FlockFingerLakes 3 жыл бұрын

But at least some of our native birds eat the tent caterpillars. We *may* have seen a bluebird attempt to eat a caterpillar today, but not sure if it dropped the caterpillar aftering biting into it or not.

@broomdog1214 3 жыл бұрын

Those stuffs are nightmare! They killed one of my rose plant.

@FlockFingerLakes 3 жыл бұрын

So sorry to hear. They weren't really interested in the roses here.

@DeeCM58 2 жыл бұрын

I can tell in this episode, Summer you trimmed your hair.

@kindashin 2 жыл бұрын

i tot u were politely cursing when u say beech then realise its the trees name

@viettrung7822 2 жыл бұрын

Poor lil beeches :D

@MsCaterific 3 жыл бұрын

💜

@princyjoseph2729 3 жыл бұрын

They infest the Moringa trees every year in India and all we use is mix water and detergent and spary or pour it on the tree trunks and they are gone.

@FlockFingerLakes 3 жыл бұрын

Didn't realize they were in India too. How did they get there, because they aren't native, are they?

@princyjoseph2729 3 жыл бұрын

@@FlockFingerLakes I don't know about their nativity .. they are called Kambuli poochi in Tamil( our native language in Tamilnadu, South India) or Blanket worms and I remember they are in India for more than Two Decades because once on my way to school this insect fell on my neck from the tree and it kept itching and started to swell behind my neck and a friend of mine found this on my school uniform collar. Since then I have always been careful to stay away from the Morniga trees during the months of March and April. Actually the sight of these insects covered on the tree trunks will cause me goosebumps . I'm 37 years old now.. maybe they have their roots here in India too... It's a menace but still its nature.. even these tiny creatures have some role in our eco system which could be beneficial. Happy to see the response and Love what you do at the Flock Finger Lakes.

@kindashin 2 жыл бұрын

maybe put some ductape the other way round too above of that ‘blocker’ too so they if they manage to climb theyll stuck on the ductape ahhahaahahahahahahah