Pulaski

OK, so cover it with ¼" drywall if you want a quick fix, or tear out the L&P and replace with ½" drywall for a more professional "permanent" solution.

Bob

Could it be, someone had drilled holes in to hang that wire shelving stuff up?

Our old place, had what looked like that stuff taken down as you could see the lines in the wall, and spots along there was a bit crumbly.

Pulaski

Very possibly so - Americans are, IME very nonchalant about the need to attach shelves and other heavy items to studs rather than to the lath and plaster or dry wall. TV brackets come with advice about anchoring the bracket to the drywall panel, not necessarily the studs, and even over-the-stove microwave installation instructions only specify the need for one lag bolt into a stud to anchor a microwave to the wall, when a 30" wide microwave has a 94% liklihood of straddling two 16"-on-centre wall studs.

Pulaski

My drain-digging project, immediately along side the driveway, which I was planning to finish digging, lay the pipe, then cover over this week, is now on hold becuase the ditch is has become a tadpole nursery!

scrubbedexpat097

So our Pecan tree has web worms all over it. Or rather it did! We seem to have successfully burned them out.
Not sure if we will get Pecans this year but I'm glad we got rid of them!

Steerpike

That photo is a work of art! Beautiful shapes, shades, colors! It would look great on a wall about 4 ft x 6 ft!

Can you take a second pic to show the tree more in context? The close up is certainly interesting, and honestly very beautiful, but I have a hard time knowing what I'm looking at!

scrubbedexpat097

This is how it looks in the tree. The webs cover the branches pulling all the leaves in and the worms ( actually they are a caterpiller) destroy all the leaves .

Jerseygirl

When I saw similar in NJ, I thought they were made by huge spiders.

Steerpike

Wow, that is a strange phenomenon! How interesting!

I've been wanting to put up some 'big art' on my walls in my new place. I've decided I want modern / abstract stuff - a break from my past tastes. I've been taking photographs for over 40 years now, and have a massive collection of photos. It occurred to me, what I could do for my 'wall art' would be to find some old photo of something, then either zoom in on a section of a picture, and/or, do some heavy photoshop processing to turn a 'real scene' into something very abstract. I never did come up with a picture, and ended up buying a bunch of art from the store, but ... your 1st picture above is very much along the lines of what I was thinking about! Either use it as is, or perhaps blur it, or saturate / desaturate it, mess with the color temperature, etc etc. Fascinating stuff!

scrubbedexpat097

The first picture was a fluke really. I was trying to help move all the fallen "nests" away from the trees so we could burn them. It was hard to see in the bright light so i just kept clicking randomly on my phone! .
I may have to see about turning it into an art piece!

I'm just glad we have got rid of the webs.i hope they don't return!

Pulaski

We get something similar here, though from your pictures perhaps not quite so big. They seem to prefer cherry trees, and Mrs P calls them "tent caterpillars". I think some locals here in NC call them "bag worms". Per some real-time Google research by Mrs P, apparently "fall web worms" is the correct name, .... but they're still caterpillars!

Whatever you call them, they completely destroy the leaves, and seem to kill the branch, and while a tree can survive a few tents/bags, in extreme cases they can kill the tree.

scrubbedexpat097

Yes they are called Fall web worms and yes they are caterpillars. They are also different from the worms/caterpillars that we had earlier this year from our oak trees. These web worms were in our Pecan tree and also just starting in one of our pear trees. If we look across to nearby neighbours it seems mostly pecan trees. Cherry trees don't seem to grow so well here.

ddsrph

We have both web/catapiller
worms and bag worms here in Tennessee. The bag worms hang off small limbs and consume the sap until the limb dies. They look like tiny pine cones but different texture. The other catapiller worms are a giant structure that covers a limb and eats the leaves.

Lion in Winter

Adding this to a few more threads. I know it's off topic, but Jersey's put it in lots of places so I think I'm safe.

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated, I know.

Gizza Job

lizzyq

Our outdoor hydroponics system is starting to be productive. We are growing cucumbers, melons, various peppers, aubergines, various basils and also tomatoes. Plants went in on memorial day weekend, as that is when we are frost free.