AboveBeyond
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What pest/bugs causes this white filmy substance?
Pest Identification
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wireme
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Spider egg sack possibly.
AboveBeyond
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Anything to worry about?
wireme
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Probably just helpful predators for your garden. It could be some kind of caterpillar in there I suppose, I wouldn't worry unless there were many of these all over the place in which case a more positive ID would be the next step.
jk_lewis
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That's a cocoon of something. A worm/caterpillar will emerge eventually. It may or may not eat leaves (but it probably will eat them or the eggs wouldn't have been put there). SQUISH it.
wireme
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I still think a spider egg sac is more likely, you could squish it yes but you might be destroying a small army of little mite and aphid eating warriors.
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GrimLore
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Spray the plant after a night of rain with an organic pesticide and it will probably make you and the plant feel better. It takes a decent level of expertise to determine when a pest is good or bad and you will learn in the years to come. 
Eric Group
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Some kind of caterpillar cocoon most likely- squish it is the best advice!
Egg sacks from spiders don't quite look like that and usually aren't curled up in A leaf that way. They find a spot hidden under a tarp, near there web to lay their eggs in my experience.
Regardless, I would dispose of it. The last thing you want is a Bunche baby worms eating your tree!
Egg sacks from spiders don't quite look like that and usually aren't curled up in A leaf that way. They find a spot hidden under a tarp, near there web to lay their eggs in my experience.
Regardless, I would dispose of it. The last thing you want is a Bunche baby worms eating your tree!
Dav4
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This may be an extreme suggestion, and I apologize in advance
...but why don't you just open up the "fuzz" and see what's inside? That's what I do when I find something similar on my trees. More often then not, I find a small caterpillar inside....SQUISH!
...but why don't you just open up the "fuzz" and see what's inside? That's what I do when I find something similar on my trees. More often then not, I find a small caterpillar inside....SQUISH!
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Agreed about it .......TestimonialsSpray the plant after a night of rain with an organic pesticide and it will probably make you and the plant feel better. It takes a decent level of expertise to determine when a pest is good or bad and you will learn in the years to come.
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austinwend
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I think you should look to remove them completely. Because once while reading an article about ny pest control I came to know that,these females lay eggs in hundreds this means these pest gets multiplied in hundreds every time they reproduce, hence removing them completely by using any organic pesticide is an ideal choice.
