Did you ever play hide-and-seek as a kid? I’m sure many of you did. A common landscape pest plays, well, just “hide” with us on our evergreens – the bagworm. The insect does it not by hiding in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Evergreen Bagworm Moth Cocoon (Thyridopteryx Ephemeraeformis) on Beach Sheoak. The cocoon is brown.© Yanti Lin/Shutterstock.com ...

PINE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) - Early fall is a time when Evergreen Bagworm cocoons typically show up on trees across the Pine Belt, but these are not the same as bagworms found in dark and humid spaces ...

Evergreen trees and shrubs, especially Colorado Blue Spruce, should be checked now for bagworms. If not controlled, a large bagworm population can defoliate and kill an evergreen in a fairly short ...

Last fall my husband and I had some trees planted in our yard. We live in a rural area and have some established evergreens. The man who was planting the new trees happened to notice something on our ...

Above and below: bagworm on arborvitae. Photo by John E. Woodmansee. This is the time of year when people begin to notice dying evergreens. One notorious suspect for this condition is bagworms. They ...

They’re quietly munching away and at first can be hard to spot. But once the bagworm population is too large to control, they are among the most easily identified insects. Bagworms have made their ...

Many landscapes have already been infested by crafty creatures who are the masters of disguise. The evergreen bagworm is sneaking around feeding on a wide variety of plant material right under our ...

The key to managing insect pests is understanding their life cycle. Finding pests early reduces plant damage and makes management easier. Two of the insect pests to look for are ...

Bagworms have hatched around the Miami Valley area. If you have had issues with these pests in the pasts, you need to check your trees and shrubs, especially evergreens, closely. Bagworms are ...