http://awaytogarden.com/calling-all-caterpillars Organic gardening inspiration from Margaret Roach Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:46:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://awaytogarden.com/calling-all-caterpillars/comment-page-1#comment-94894 Carole Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:11:30 +0000 http://awaytogarden.com/?p=229#comment-94894 Know this is an old post, but you'll probably be have caterpillars again next year. I was just reading that they are a favorite of black and yellow-billed cuckoos and bats. Know this is an old post, but you’ll probably be have caterpillars again next year.
I was just reading that they are a favorite of black and yellow-billed cuckoos and bats.

]]> http://awaytogarden.com/calling-all-caterpillars/comment-page-1#comment-10950 Carolynn Sears Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:19:11 +0000 http://awaytogarden.com/?p=229#comment-10950 In the fifties, as a girl, I would scout for egg masses on the bare, winter branches of deciduous trees. The dark-colored egg mass is about an inch long and wrapped around branches that are about the thickness of a pencil. My parents would destroy the egg masses, but one time a shirt box full was forgotten and we had tiny tent caterpillars roaming the kitchen. It was an education! In the fifties, as a girl, I would scout for egg masses on the bare, winter branches of deciduous trees. The dark-colored egg mass is about an inch long and wrapped around branches that are about the thickness of a pencil. My parents would destroy the egg masses, but one time a shirt box full was forgotten and we had tiny tent caterpillars roaming the kitchen. It was an education!

]]> http://awaytogarden.com/calling-all-caterpillars/comment-page-1#comment-264 Kassie Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:43:45 +0000 http://awaytogarden.com/?p=229#comment-264 THink I'll call my birds over to the trees with a feeder and cross my fingers! Thanks for all the great information! THink I’ll call my birds over to the trees with a feeder and cross my fingers! Thanks for all the great information!

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