The hackberry tree is very common in North Texas but this year, they suffered a major invasion of a pest. Is the hackberry leafroller more bark than bite?
When they get fat enough, they spin silk drop lines and drop to the ground. There, they borrow in and wait until the next warm season to emerge as a rather plain looking brown/gray moth.
Even worse, many of their natural predators were diminished by the same weather conditions leading up to the big rain, so the entire summer population of leaf rollers arrived all at once with very few enemies around to keep them in check. But here is some good news. Hackberries had all season to build up their winter sugars necessary for dormancy and spring leaf out.
The same weather pattern led to an explosion of the aphid population across our area. Their"honeydew" waste from feeding on new leaf growth coated entire trees, cars, sidewalks and outdoor furniture in some places.
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