From: songbird@anthive.com   
      
   Paul Drahn wrote:   
   > On 7/26/2020 7:18 PM, Pavel314 wrote:   
   >> I was going to get the morning papers the other day when I noticed that the   
   apple tree in the corner of the yard looked strange; it was fuzzy on one side   
   but had full leaves on the other. When I got closer, I saw that on the "fuzzy"   
   side, the leaves    
   had been eaten away except for the main vein that runs up from the branch   
   through the center of the leave. It hadn't been like that the morning before   
   so either a flock of locusts came through during the day or night and ate the   
   leaves. No sight of any    
   bugs around or on the tree.   
   >>   
   >> The "fuzzy" area was 6-10 feet above the ground. None of the other trees   
   had been damaged and there was no damage on the normal, fully-leaved side of   
   the tree. Any ideas as to what might have caused this?   
      
     arg!  drats!   
      
      
   > Likely due to tent caterpillars. They love apple trees and this is the   
   > right time of the year for them to hatch and crawl up the tree to begin   
   > eating leaves and making a large web nest.   
      
     that's about what i thought too.   
      
      
     songbird   
      
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