whats this?

[hibiscusmile]

found hanging from my evergreens, a cocoon of some kind, it is wrapped around the small evergreen leaves and appears to have brown catapillar inside? any good for mantis to eat?

1 hanging

bunch inside container, one coming out!

can u see the cat?

 

[hibiscusmile]

ok, is it the bagworm, please be kind, I will run and hide if u scare me..... :blink:

 

[What]

Yup, that appears to be a type of bagworm. Totally harmless, just a type of caterpillar.

Edit: When I say totally harmless I mean to you. Before trying to feed them to any expensive mantids, try it out on a chinese or something first.

 

[lancaster1313]

It could be some kind of bagworm. Does each cat have its own bag?

I have had a bagworm eat one of my molting Carolinas. I thought that it would just eclose, and a moth would come out to be eaten by the mantis. I doubt it could hurt you.

I do not trust my local bagworms(with mantids), even if the bags are only half an inch long, at the most!

 

[hibiscusmile]

ugg! these are prett y big, almost superworm size, will try on someone!

 

[kmsgameboy]

As soon as I saw the picture I knew it was a bag worm. I found one a few weeks ago. I took the branch it had attached to home and isolated it in a critter keeper to see it pop back out but since then I set it in the bushes outside.

 

[Idolofreak]

Yeah, definitely a bagworm. They attach lots of pine needles, sticks, leaves, etc. to the bags for camouflage.

 

[hibiscusmile]

Oh yea each has its own bag! I no likely them! :angry: gives me the shivers!...

I had to cut bag open to feed to a girl, she ate it, but had a lot of juice in it, we will see if she has any bad results. I think I pulled of a couple hundred of them, what kind of moth do they turn into?

 

[Peter Clausen]

Neat! I've never seen one of those in the Pacific NW, and only a couple of times in Mexico. That looks like arborvitae foliage. Do they eat that?

 

[hibiscusmile]

They sure do! if I knew you thought they were neat, I would of sent you some