Bugs

This is a great time of year. The warmth returns and the landscape wakes up from its winter nap. The birds and other animals begin their spring rituals. But I'm not that crazy about all of the bugs. I had some ants in my house a few weeks ago, lady bugs are everywhere, and of course, the occasional spider. But after yesterday morning, I feel lucky that I don't have any Eastern Tent Caterpillars.

I learned about this nasty caterpillar while doing a live report for our morning news. Mike Raupp is an entomologist at the University of Maryland and also a very entertaining guy. If you'd like to see a converstaion I had with Mike, here's the story. All I can tell you is that these are nasty caterpillars and you want to stop them before they kill your trees.