A friend of mine from the pool who was rehabbing a broken arm gave me a call a few weeks ago about these little pinecones on her arborvitae. I said okay, I would like to see this issue. She invited me ...

Have you noticed an inexplicable yellowing or defoliation in your shrubs and trees? A close and careful look through the branches might reveal the culprit in clever camouflage: bagworms. Devastatingly ...

The AgCenter has gotten several calls the past few weeks about strange-looking bugs eating ornamentals. The culprit turned out to be bagworms, the caterpillar stage of moths in the Psychidae family.

After I had just delivered a Christmas message at one of my churches in Canton, a friend I've know for 30 years was sitting across the table from me and asked about his old hedge of arborvitae. These ...

Bagworms are always bad, growing their unsightly brown bags and munching on evergreens. But they’re really bad this year, moving on to plants they usually don’t bother — like roses. Now is the time to ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ohio — Bagworms may be small, but they can cause big problems. Often mistaken for part of the tree, they create cases that dangle from branches. Erika Lyon, with Ohio State ...

The bagworm is a common pest of many evergreen plants in the landscape. The host plants of the bagworm include junipers, arborvitae, cedar, spruce, and pine. If you don’t catch these small worms early ...

While we aren’t seeing bagworms to the degree we have seen them in past years, we know they are out there. Bagworms are the creatures that live inside those likely familiar little bag-like structures ...