Another worm/tree question

[RifleBowPistol]

So last year we had lots of worms in the trees, making webs and mess. My wife had me spray them, killed a lot of them with her favorite bug poison, Triazicide. She likes that stuff for spraying the yard with every year. So she had me spray the trees last year, worked great on the worms. We had many thousands of dead worms hanging from the trees that first evening. Since we can't spray the rest of the county, it did not reduce the population enough that we saw in improvement this year. She sprayed the trees as soon as we noticed the worms were out a couple weeks ago. Works great on the trees in the yard, but the water hose is not anywhere near long enough to get to the rest of the property. It would be nice to find a way to spray the rest of the property with something.

But, since the rest of the property has not been sprayed, we have worms in the oaks and hickory all over the rest of the property. I saw something this past weekend I had not previously seen before. I have seen the worms roll up leaves around them selves to make a cocoon. I have seen them make large mass of web all over trees, mainly pecans and live oaks. But I have never seen them make these things on the leaves, look like blisters or something. I assume the worms did this to the leaves. I found this on a couple of our hickory trees.

So were these things on the leaves done by the worms and what are they, did they lay eggs in the leaves?

[kurt68]

Wow, no clue. But I do see catfish bait. In for the answer.

[Roman AB]

Is it a catawaba worm?

[SaltwaterSlick]

Is it a catawaba worm?

No. tobby worms are black and yeller with an antenna like tail on the back...

[RifleBowPistol]

Is it a catawaba worm?

Don't know, I looked them up, does not look like what I found, but I did find multiple different looking worms, when I typed in that name.

I can say, when they turn into moths, they are light green moths, with light green wings. There will be millions of them flying around the tops of the trees soon.

[RifleBowPistol]

Wow, no clue. But I do see catfish bait. In for the answer.

That's a good idea, my wife has talked about going fishing again soon numerous times. Maybe this will give us a reason to go this weekend, we have bait now, that won't be around long.