Tuesday, August 14, 2007

pupa's



Long thin threads hang from trees, buildings, lamp posts, threads crawling with wiggly worms, or what we call worms from the oak trees. Probably they are pupa's.

From a distance they look like beaded curtains but when you walk in them they cling to you and the rest of the day you are finding these worms on your clothes, in your hair, on your skin. I shudder every time I have to pull one of them off me.

Are they harmful. My body acts as if they are. They are definitely creepy and one of the scourges of nature in my neighborhood.

The Oak trees look dead now that all their leaves have been eaten. I don't want to be eaten by the oak worm.

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