{"id":6849,"date":"2017-02-24T10:32:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T15:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/home-and-garden-ipm\/?p=6849"},"modified":"2022-02-22T13:06:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T18:06:19","slug":"eliminate-browntail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/home-and-garden-ipm\/2017\/02\/24\/eliminate-browntail\/","title":{"rendered":"Eliminate Browntail Caterpillars Now! (February)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/home-and-garden-ipm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2011\/11\/Brown-tail-Nest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2113\" src=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/home-and-garden-ipm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2011\/11\/Brown-tail-Nest-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a Brown-tail Moth nest of caterpillars\" width=\"275\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/home-and-garden-ipm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2011\/11\/Brown-tail-Nest-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/home-and-garden-ipm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2011\/11\/Brown-tail-Nest-105x79.jpg 105w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/home-and-garden-ipm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2011\/11\/Brown-tail-Nest-317x239.jpg 317w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/home-and-garden-ipm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2011\/11\/Brown-tail-Nest-423x318.jpg 423w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/home-and-garden-ipm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2011\/11\/Brown-tail-Nest-634x477.jpg 634w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/home-and-garden-ipm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2011\/11\/Brown-tail-Nest-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/home-and-garden-ipm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2011\/11\/Brown-tail-Nest.jpg 663w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,275px\" \/><\/a>The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, is informing people that February is an ideal time to be looking for webbed-together leaves (housing overwintering browntail moth caterpillars) at the tips of apple, crabapple, plum and oak tree branches.\u00a0 If you find any of them, clip them out and submerge them in a bucket of soapy water; do not just clip them and leave them on the ground, as the caterpillars may still survive and find their way back to the trees in the spring when they become active and hungry again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/192349741\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Removing Browntail Caterpillar Nests<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, is informing people that February is an ideal time to be looking for webbed-together leaves (housing overwintering browntail moth caterpillars) at the tips of apple, crabapple, plum and oak tree branches.\u00a0 If you find any of them, clip them out and submerge them in a bucket of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Eliminate Browntail Caterpillars Now! 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