Crazy bug at work

[cnycharles]

Eating algae off the bottom of the picnic table where I’m taking break

 

[eds]

That is a strange thing. Looks like a caddis fly bit they are aquatic!

 

[Djthomp28]

It looks like a bagworm to me. Interesting yet creepy things.

 

[abax]

Definitely bagworm. If you have plants close by, I'd kill that critter.
They can proliferate like crazy and will kill any plants either in ground
or pots.

 

[NYEric]

Hello.

 

[cnycharles]

Greetings!

 

[NYEric]

Any orchid stuff going on?

 

[cnycharles]

I’ve had a few quick trips in s jersey, central pa and was up around cortland in June and last weekend. I had to be to my uncles delayed memorial East of cortland Saturday so stopped by a Spiranthes spot with Matt

We found two Spiranthes casei; dry year, there were big ones last year I didn’t get up for

 

[SouthPark]

It is certainly a bag worm. I haven't had any serious threats from bagworms on my orchids. I did have a single one ..... only once put a hole in one of my cattleya leaf hahaha. I see them every once in a while on plants and things, but rarely on my orchids.

It is just a caterpillar that travels around in a coating of leaves or dried sticks or something haha