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Ever see many catalpa trees in the wild, around Louisiana?
Posted on 6/12/21 at 12:58 pm
Posted on 6/12/21 at 12:58 pm
I live in Alexandria but grandparents always had catalpa trees. I've known about them from people planting them but didn't know if it was a tree that you see in the wild very often. Anyone ever seen them in a refuge or national forest?
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Posted on 6/12/21 at 1:18 pm to Teslarocks
There are plenty of them in the boonies of northern St. Landry Parish.
The problem isn’t a lack of trees, it’s a lack of the worms. They’ve been decimated by pesticides over the last 20 years.
The problem isn’t a lack of trees, it’s a lack of the worms. They’ve been decimated by pesticides over the last 20 years.
Posted on 6/12/21 at 1:31 pm to LongueCarabine
Yea I’ve noticed the ones at grandparents don’t get the worms every year like they use to
Posted on 6/12/21 at 6:51 pm to Teslarocks
Go almost anywhere and look along pasture fence lines
Posted on 6/12/21 at 7:00 pm to Teslarocks
The only ones I've ever seen were on old home places and usually two or three in a row like they were planted.
Both of my grandparents had small farms and had them
I'm not sure if there was any other benefit of them than getting worms.
Doesn't seem like the old timers would plant them just for worms though
Both of my grandparents had small farms and had them
I'm not sure if there was any other benefit of them than getting worms.
Doesn't seem like the old timers would plant them just for worms though
Posted on 6/12/21 at 7:02 pm to Teslarocks
From Google
What are catalpa trees good for?
The Southern Catalpa tree has been known to be used as a medicine with its bark being boiled to make a tea. Other past uses of the trees leaves, flowers, bark, and roots were as a treatment for snake bites, whooping cough and malaria. The flowers have been used as a treatment for asthma or as a light sedative.Mar 4, 2016
What are catalpa trees good for?
The Southern Catalpa tree has been known to be used as a medicine with its bark being boiled to make a tea. Other past uses of the trees leaves, flowers, bark, and roots were as a treatment for snake bites, whooping cough and malaria. The flowers have been used as a treatment for asthma or as a light sedative.Mar 4, 2016
Posted on 6/12/21 at 9:02 pm to Teslarocks
Never. Always around human development.
Posted on 6/13/21 at 8:52 am to Teslarocks
My dad had two at our house growing up. They would be full of those worms every year. I'd catch catfish with them, when everybody else couldn't even get a bite.
I bought a place on a local lake, year ago. There was a small tree already there. No worms. I found some live ones and a bait shop and released them on the tree, hoping they would multiply. Never did.
I bought a place on a local lake, year ago. There was a small tree already there. No worms. I found some live ones and a bait shop and released them on the tree, hoping they would multiply. Never did.
Posted on 6/13/21 at 8:57 am to greygoose
I always freeze them in cornmeal. And use them later. My grandparents, one of their trees is right over pond and when the worms (caterpillars?) are there, some good fishing. Bream wear them out also
Posted on 6/13/21 at 9:56 am to Teslarocks
There were four at my grandparents place, all in a row so I'm sure they we planted. I've several in the wild along the bank on Spring Creek.
Fire ants and chemicals have taken their toll...not many caterpillars now days.
We used to put them in a jar with cornmeal and keep them in the freezer. Take a jar to the creek bank and do some perch jerkin.
Fire ants and chemicals have taken their toll...not many caterpillars now days.
We used to put them in a jar with cornmeal and keep them in the freezer. Take a jar to the creek bank and do some perch jerkin.
Posted on 6/13/21 at 10:11 am to Teslarocks
I can’t remember the last time I saw a tree with catawba worms.
Posted on 6/13/21 at 10:13 am to Teslarocks
I have programmed myself to notice them.
The only place I've seen them wild were around Tulsa.
The only place I've seen them wild were around Tulsa.
Posted on 6/13/21 at 10:14 am to ForLSU56
You can freeze them in a paper bag with a few leaves and they will reanimate when thawed and warmed up in the sun.
Their leathery texture makes them hard for fish to get off the hook.
Channel cats and bream LOVE them.
Their leathery texture makes them hard for fish to get off the hook.
Channel cats and bream LOVE them.
Posted on 6/13/21 at 10:38 am to Eli Goldfinger
Have quite a few trees I check regularly but have not seen the first worm yet this year. Seems like the worms are hit and miss now due to pesticides and mosquito spraying around houses.
Posted on 6/13/21 at 11:29 am to TigerDog83
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Seems like the worms are hit and miss now due to pesticides and mosquito spraying around houses.
You’d think in rural areas or refuges pesticide spraying wouldn’t be as big a factor, or would hope so. Granted I’m speaking of the commercial mosquito trucks, not taking into account landowners spraying their own property
Posted on 6/15/21 at 12:09 am to TigerDog83
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Have quite a few trees I check regularly but have not seen the first worm yet this year. Seems like the worms are hit and miss now due to pesticides and mosquito spraying around houses.
I’ve heard you can buy worms to seed them, but I haven’t tried.
I for sure know you can buy worms online.
Posted on 6/15/21 at 6:35 am to Teslarocks
Plenty of trees, no worms left
Posted on 6/15/21 at 6:41 am to DTRooster
Catalpa are web worm caterpillars, they make a web/ cocoon and then turn into a moth. Im going to assume the problem with the pesticides is on the moths. You’d think that once a mature tree had them thick it could manage them, but I’m guessing that’s just not the case.
Posted on 6/15/21 at 7:02 am to baldona
Bro in laws dad has a row of trees that were loaded until the last 10 years or so, now nothing. Even tried to reseed them a couple times and it was a waste. Gotta be pesticides
Now that I'm thinking about it. It seems about the same time frame the stinging caterpillars and shenees that were in the Live Oaks by the house by the thousands disappeared
Now that I'm thinking about it. It seems about the same time frame the stinging caterpillars and shenees that were in the Live Oaks by the house by the thousands disappeared
This post was edited on 6/15/21 at 7:10 am
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