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Kay eye ess ess eye en geee. No not really. Hiding from predators for the night. Tomorrow morning they will continue devouring my tree.
Kay eye ess ess eye en geee. No not really. Hiding from predators for the night. Tomorrow morning they will continue devouring my tree.
No, we do not kill anything unless they are definitely invasive, which these guys aren’t. They are only a problem if you happen to sit on one, (and you happen to be naked, I suppose) generally they are not a nuisance at all. They stay in their tree, dispersing to eat during the day, and getting back together in clumps like this at night.
These processionary caterpillar are invasive. They kill pine and alike. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/defra-england-france-europe-north-africa-b995054.html
there’s no such thing as an animal or plant that is invasive in the general sense
when you say something is invasive, you need to specify where
As per the linked article.
I’m all good with comments about protecting these caterpillars, I just hope we are not neighbors 😉
Again, they are not invasive here.
Where are you located?
Southern Africa.