Do you know the name of this worm or caterpillar?

Question

We have to very large evergreen bushes, I would guess Jupiter, but there are worms or caterpillar type bugs on them that have taken the needles and made a sort of cacoon or shell around themselves and they hang on the branches and look like pods. I would like to know what they are called so I can get more information on them. Thanks for your answers.

Answer 1

Im pretty sure what you have are known as bagworms. They are actually caterpillars, not worms and will one day emerge as moths. Well actually it is only the males that emerge, the females will spend the rest of their lives in the "bag" as a wingless adult. The males fly to them, by following pheromones and they mate. The female then drops the eggs to the ground and the young climb up the nearest tree, usually the same one and begin feeding.

Just look up Bagworms...........pretty cool critters.
The damage they do is not only by cutting up pieces of the needles and gluing them together with salivary silk, but the young caterpillars eat quite a bit, and could defoliate the host tree if they are too densely populated.

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

Probably a few sort of maggot. Years in the past, I saved discovering a number of the ones on my kitchen ceiling. No topic how a lot I sprayed, they saved coming again. I eventually opened a cupboard close the ceiling and a lot of these little flies got here flying out. Turns available in the market was once an historic field of cereal in there and the flies had been laying eggs, the maggots might hatch and feed at the cereal, then come crawling out onto the ceiling. I threw out the field and wiped clean out the cupboard. They certainly not got here again.

Answer 3

You could try looking them up on google.com/images. Recently I had a black, white and yellow caterpillar climbing all over the vine next to my house, so I went to google images and typed in black, white, and yellow caterpillar, and up came lots of pictures. I went through them until I found mine, and found out that he was a Monarch butterfly to be.
Good luck!