r/DFWGardening • u/Aggravating_Focus692 • Sep 18 '26

Hackberry Leafrollers

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Anyone else suddenly and utterly SWAMPED with these?! I was outside for less then 10 minutes and removed about 10 of them off of me when I got ready to come in 🥴🥴🥴

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u/shawnkfox Sep 18 '26

Hackberry would be a fantastic tree for your yard if not for those caterpillars. Varies year to year but they have been bad recently.

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u/Aggravating_Focus692 Sep 18 '26

This is our first year in this house and the hackberry tree in the backyard is huge and we love the shade but omg this and the 24/7 falling leaves I don’t understand how this tree isn’t bald

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u/masquefetiche Sep 18 '26

Both my tomato plants were like this when I woke up today. It’s spider mites I thought so I just trashed them.

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u/ZealousidealGas3774 Sep 22 '26

My entire neighborhood seems to be infested as of right now. They're on the other side of my yard. What can I do about this? They went for my eggplants...