Bagworms

I read that BT is best for them, basically stops them from eating and doesn't harm anything else. Nowhere around here had any though, but I ordered some. I was in the zone so I just spent another 6 hours today pulling them. About 8 gallons of them in total. Everything I read also said best thing to do is remove them. I just wish I didn't have 14 of these trees that are all 15 feet tall. Most didn't have near as much as the worst 2, but still no fun in July with all the Canadian smoke haze.

About half were still moving, the other half dry and likely with eggs. You could see eggs on the ground under one of them, so I cleaned that up as much as I could. I will get something to apply in April or so to kill them when they hatch. I don't think anything will really "kill" the eggs at this point.