How To Get Rid Of Tent Caterpillars
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- Опубліковано 24 тра 2013
- The method to get rid of tent caterpillars that works the best for us is simply vegetable oil. I save used vegetable oil from our deep fryer and pour it into a small spray bottle. You can certainly use fresh oil but I like finding a use for the used oil. Just spray it onto the caterpillar nest later in the evening when they have all come into sleep for the night. It will kill them quickly because insects breath through their skin, once they are coated in oil they can no longer breath.
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I love solutions where you already have the ingredients on hand and are non-toxic! These critters are tearing through my honeysuckle and can't reach all of them to prune them out. Giving this a try. Thanks!
A lot of towns and small cities in Sask aren't spraying, they didn't last year and didn't this year, and these things are devastating the trees! Thanks for the video I'm def trying this!
i saw this video on the homestead site, and just stopped in over here to post a "thank you" for the tip! :)
Thanks for the advice on using vegetable oil. I'll go camping in 2 days and will take your advice when insects rush into our tent.
Wiggly bugs make me feel uneasy, especially in large clumps.
I got out of my car and almost went face-first into a large aggregate of these animated eyebrows, which were gently flagellating at the tip of a large bush's stalk.
Yes that should work well to! :) I use a mix of dish soap, oil and water for most of my garden bugs.
Thanks for sharing this method, I've burned them and even cut the branch and removed the whole nest. This way is so much easier and it doesn't hurt the tree.
I want to thank you sincerely for your advise and I must say that it work!.. Thank you very much.
wow!! I Just asked on facebook about this issue we have, and you just posted it, thank you!!
I came across your channel and saw a few of your videos and they are very informative which I like. I didn't know how to do tomato sauce and notice it's not that hard. would this oil also work on those little white things that gets on the tomatoes? great work and I subbed.
I had these critters eating all the leaves on a rose bush...dishsoap and water in a spray bottle worked perfectly.
Sometimes the simplest ingredients work best... great video.
Great tip! I did it today on me apple trees! Worked excellent!
DID YOU ADD WATER TO THE OIL OR JUST STRAIGHT OIL?
There bad i zion nat park July August. Thanks for this info. Bad in sourthern ill to.
Thank you so so much, I did just set fire to them with my torch, but next time I will use the oil, Darrin
I am doing this as soon as I get home today. We have them crawling up our foundation as well, would this work there too? Thanks for this.
I am not sure if it is tent caterpillars that I have specifically, or not, but that doesn't really matter. I'm not sure if they're somehow coming out of the wood of brand new front door I just replaced, or blowing in from a tree in my front yard, but they are EVERYwhere. They have rendered my front door useless and are even getting inside. Thank you so much for this. I will try it
That's what we ended up doing... cut down about 15 alders that surrounded the garden. It helped. We'll see what happens in 7 or 8 years when they come back!
Thank you so much! I am going to try it.
can you spray it on the caterpillars themselves. I believe the are way to far up in my tree and they are now all over my house /porch area.
hmm. this might be worth a test. The thicker the oil, the better the results? I've never used cooking oil. Might have to give it a try.
cool video! How's the garden progressing?
I wonder if you put the oil in a garden sprayer and gave the tree a good coating if it would kill the bugs and not harm the tree?
they are on my honeysuckle don't see any caterpillars but a tent full of wiggly larve. Not sure if they are caterpillars, maybe they went to a different stage..no trees around...
I wouldn't want to spray the whole tree in oil, you could burn the leaves when the sun shines on it. It might help with some bugs if you did it before the tree leafed out.
Good info for gardeners : )
I use 1/2 cup cheap dish detergent in a gallon of water and a garden sprayer...works well on the caterpillars as well as the nests...
Hmm my only concern really (although I loved to play with them as a kid too) is will it harm any bees as well?
- Heidi
Hello does it need to be used oil or is it okay to use fresh oil...or best if used oil thanks in advance
Omg we have them every where sooooo bad this yr, but I havent seen any nest in the past 3 yrs weve lived here. So I'm so confused! Even went on a massive hunt for one. Dont know where they are coming from!
Vinegar and dish soap in a spray bottle works well too
Thank you very much
ok, what does invalid mean at the end of the video? That the oil does not work ?
Excellent video! Thanks for sharing this. :-)
works like a charm!!! thanks for saving me an exterminator bill!!!!
It works! Thank you. Much cheaper than the recommended pesticides.
DID YOU ADD WATER TO THE OIL?
Thanks! :)
cool tip can ya feed them to the chickens? thnx good info.
coconut oil it is gonna work to kill tent worm?
LOL your welcome! They are bad this time of year.
If you spray oil on a bee yes it will kill it. I spray the caterpillars late in the evening when they are back in their nests and there are no bees out. I don't spray the whole tree just the nests.
I don't think it would hurt them if you want to try.
What about all the ones crawling all over your house?? I am desperate my next step is to fell about 6 to 8 trees I cant handle a 3rd year of this
I miss your videos!!!
Will the vegetable oil ruin the tree?
For me the caterpillars aren't a ginormous problem but those dang moths... I sleep in a bunk house (like an out door room/mini house) and have a light by the door outside. I don't like sleeping in pitch black so I leave the outdoor light on but the dang moths gather around on the door and around the light when I have to o to the bathroom really bad I can't go out cuz I don't like bugs. How can I get rid of the moths if I don't have a zapper???
I've been spraying them with vinegar/water and I'm not sure I'm succeeding. Could you please advise? They are killing my plum tree! Thanks from Saskatoon!
Yes, that's what we just did, plus spritzed the small cherry tree with dawn soap and water....didn't have liquid vegetable oil on hand.
cool thank you
Okay I thought so but I wasn't sure. I will keep that in mind as I don't want to hurt any bees. I don't have much problem with tent caterpillars here in Texas that I have noticed but we have other pests that I might be able to use this on carefully so I don't harm any good insects. I also wouldn't want to hurt the plethora of spiders we have - well except maybe the black widows. I would rather get those before they get me or my son. :)
- Heidi
what do you do if they are 30 feet up in trees?
Tripp Holland Climb.
Cut the tree down so you can reach them
Use a ladder
OMG food for chickens cool :)
The ones around here just park for the night..no tent. This would be sooo easy if they clumped like this.
It's a big problem in Assam, India. I was using kerosene but now onwards I'll be using vegetable oil
I like ways to not waste things like this. Usually I just prune that branch and burn it.
i try to kill them one by one with my hands on my new fruit trees, but they keep appearing every couple of days. not sure where their nest is...?? garden nearby is massive. i'll take a look for these white combs.
HI, WHAT KIND OF FRUIT TREE DO YOU HAVE IN THIS VIDEO, ITS BEAUTIFUL
Can i use Olive Oil instead Thats all i had.
+K Folms Yes Olive oil works well to.
Used deep fryer oil: kills bugs and leaves your fruit trees french fry fresh XD
can you use canola oil instead? PLEASE REPLY! we have a tenter invasion!
Any cooking oil. It is the oil film that kills them.
I literally made this face ----> =D gonna try this when they come back
Bug sprayer with DAWN BLUE .............50-50 with water..............For high up also........CHEERS!
LOL, no the dumb YT uploader some how cut out my end title clip. It shows perfectly find on my pc.
Why kill these I got these things 16 of them and also it kills blood sucking insects and flys
why not just cut the infected area off if there on a branch
I use soapy water, esp Brown soap like for wood floors because it's thick but I saw someone here use blue Dawn. I will keep the cooking oil spray as an option. I use used cooking grease as a fire starter in my wood stove and grill too. It saves on using lighter fluid and early on cold mornings pre coffee that fire better start easy. lol.
could also just dip the nests into a bucket of oil ahah
I wonder if WD 40 would work too?
Go to woodprix if you'd like to build it yourself.
Cut off branch and toss into chicken pen....
What will happen without bug 🐛🕷🐜🐝 we would all die with out them
These things strip a tree of its leaves and kills them. The Tent Caterpillars were so thick around our house one year the entire foundation of our house was covered, the grass seemed to move and you could hear a tck tck tck as they munched the leaves. They killed a stand of young alder trees and many of our yard plants. I love almost all creatures but these are too destructive.
Terry Griffin ohhh
Or you could have just took off that branch
So you go from a tent worm problem to rat problem.
People call me sadistic for doing this with fire, but try being humane when these suckers kill heirloom trees that mean a lot to the family.
We all won't see any butterflies almost gone!! Because of men made. God is sad to see on earth going on!. God did creation all beautiful caterpillar become a butterflies.
they are not caterpillara they are kangoCo worms