The technical manager for forest health in the Balearics, Luis Núñez, says that a new method is being deployed against the processionary caterpillar. New it may be for the Ibanat agency on the scale that is planned, but it is one well known to many, such as gardeners and home owners who have pine trees in their gardens - a ring trap around the trunk to capture the caterpillars as they descend from their bag nests.
Tree ring traps - the latest tactic against the processionary caterpillar in Mallorca
The caterpillars are emerging earlier because of the mild winter
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@Donald JUMP. Thanks. That works on Jelly Fish Stings.!! Thankfully my Brilliant Pharmacia Ladies sold me a Cream that has cleared it all up.
Stan The ManPee on your elbow. Good luck.
One dropped on to my arm. I did not know it was at my elbow. I have a rash of very itchy red spots from its poisonous spray. Is there a med. to clear the spots?