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Handling the nuisance of webworms and their nests

Fall webworms create a silk webbing to protect them from predators as they feed on leaves of trees. Some of the most common trees webworms infest are black walnut, mulberry, elm, sweetgum, willow, apple, ash and oak. - photo by Courtesy of Kelly Oten

0829WHEELER-photo — Fall webworms create a silk webbing to protect them from predators as they feed on leaves of trees. Some of the most common trees webworms infest are black walnut, mulberry, elm, sweetgum, willow, apple, ash and oak. - photo by Courtesy of Kelly Oten

It has begun. The annual appearance of webbing in trees along the roadways and woods in the county has started. Those are webworms, a native insect that spans as far north as Canada to as far south as Mexico.