Gardeners and homeowners beware - bagworms are back. These caterpillar pests, known for creating distinctive spindle-shaped "bags" on trees and shrubs, have a healthy appetite. A large population of ...

Have you noticed an inexplicable yellowing or defoliation in your shrubs and trees? A close and careful look through the branches might reveal the culprit in clever camouflage: bagworms. Devastatingly ...

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 ...

The bagworm is a common pest of many evergreen plants in the landscape. The host plants of the bagworm include junipers, arborvitae, cedar, spruce, and pine. If you don’t catch these small worms early ...

There have been evergreens suddenly developing off color and turning brown. This is most likely winter and spring dessication injury. There is also concerns about bagworms. While bagworms have begun ...

Evergreen trees and shrubs, especially Colorado blue spruce, should be checked now for bagworms. If not controlled, a large population of bagworms can defoliate and even kill an evergreen in a fairly ...

This is the time of year bagworms are munching away on landscape plants, and evidence of their destruction will soon appear. Bagworms can cause irreversible damage unless treated at the appropriate ...

Dear Roger: I have a 30-foot Colorado blue spruce tree that I planted 20 years ago. This year, it is infested with bagworms. I think the tree has lost all its needles, for the most part. Dear Harlan: ...

Overwintered common bagworm eggs have begun hatching in southwest Ohio and 1st instar caterpillars have settled to feed and construct their characteristic sac-like bags. A percentage of the tiny 1st ...

Is it a bagworm or a webworm? These are two common pests that become noticeable on ornamental trees during late summer and early fall. Both are native moths, but the one to worry about is the bagworm, ...

Is it a bagworm or a webworm? These are two common pests that become noticeable on ornamental trees during late summer and early fall. Both are native moths, but the one to worry about is the bagworm, ...

The beautiful evergreen tree in your yard is turning brown. You look closer and see small, cone-shaped bags hanging from the branches. And they can kill your tree. “Juniper, arborvitae, pine and ...