It has been perfect weather to be outside, however, if you stand and listen, it sounds like it is raining. It is raining - caterpillar poo. This year seems to be a bad one. One year they ate the trees clean and we had spring all over again when the caterpillars spun their cocoons.
The top caterpillar is a stinging caterpillar, their sting can be as bad as a bee sting.
The caterpillars on the tree are tent caterpillars, in a couple more weeks it will look like there are hundreds of cobwebs in the trees and under all the porches and soffits of the house. These do not sting and the kids have a blast collecting them and playing with them.
What a picture of those caterpillars!
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