Processional Caterpillars Warning

RoaminRog

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Anybody near Mikkis at the moment beware. Processional caterpillars have been spotted on site. Extra care must be taken, all over Portugal at this time as they cause severe suffering to dogs and even fatalities.
 
RoaminRog said:
Anybody near Mikkis at the moment beware. Processional caterpillars have been spotted on site. Extra care must be taken, all over Portugal at this time as they cause severe suffering to dogs and even fatalities.
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Hi Rog, are you at Mikkis Place now? We heard that it had really gone down since Mikki left
 
No Peter, we’re not at Mikkis at the mo’, I just read on their Facebook page that the caterpillars had been spotted on site.
I believe Mikki is still in the picture again now, so maybe it’s not so bad there now. The main problem, as far as we were concerned, was too many hippie parents, home schooling their little darlings. In other words, allowing them to run around at all times of day and night, filling the bar, standing on the pool table etc.
Mikki did leave for a while, but as I say, I think she is still basically on the scene or at least, not too far away.
 
Had a report from RichardSpencer 4 days ago and he said it was full of hippies and if he had not paid for 3 nights he would not have stopped, we will give the site a swerve as don't want Roxy to get ill. Thanks for the heads up Roger 👍
 
We are near Luz, a few Km from Lagos, Portugal.
We have seen 5 groups of caterpillars when we were walking along the clifftop paths.
 
jeffmossy said:
Had a report from RichardSpencer 4 days ago and he said it was full of hippies and if he had not paid for 3 nights he would not have stopped, we will give the site a swerve as don't want Roxy to get ill. Thanks for the heads up Roger 👍
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What's the matter with hippies? Probably be quite a bit of fun going on.
 
Being Processional Caterpillars, and in a religious country, you'd think they'd wait until Easter to start their journey; then they could follow the very tall Easter Puppets, to provide a bit of variety, and the onlookers could use their Palm Fronds t beat the living sh*t out of the caterpillars, without recourse to the Easter flowers

Because with Fronds like that, who needs anemones ... :rolleyes:

Steve
 
We saw a string of the Caterpillars at Denia one year, I had read that they were blind so decided to try and find out also read that the leader if displaced would wait till the tail end arrived and just join on the string again, also read that if Humans got near them they would shoot their hairs at you, aiming for your eyes, well that never happened either, SO I hooked the leader from the head of the string with a stick and watched what would happen , well the ex leader just walked to the line and just pushed in and they never even stopped, I also tried to get the string to walk in a circle but they were not having that and just kept going.
There was a lot hatching out at ROTA when we were last there in January , not this year , great big fluffy nests in the Pine trees everywhere , like to see all that , One year late Summer in France when wilding on the Canal du Midi we saw Foresters spraying the Pine trees and asked what the problem was and was told they were trying to stop the nesting Caterpillars from building nests and kill them, don't know if that worked or not but apparently they were a problem in France too.
 
Trigger said:
We saw a string of the Caterpillars at Denia one year, I had read that they were blind so decided to try and find out also read that the leader if displaced would wait till the tail end arrived and just join on the string again, also read that if Humans got near them they would shoot their hairs at you, aiming for your eyes, well that never happened either, SO I hooked the leader from the head of the string with a stick and watched what would happen , well the ex leader just walked to the line and just pushed in and they never even stopped, I also tried to get the string to walk in a circle but they were not having that and just kept going.
There was a lot hatching out at ROTA when we were last there in January , not this year , great big fluffy nests in the Pine trees everywhere , like to see all that , One year late Summer in France when wilding on the Canal du Midi we saw Foresters spraying the Pine trees and asked what the problem was and was told they were trying to stop the nesting Caterpillars from building nests and kill them, don't know if that worked or not but apparently they were a problem in France too.
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They are a problem in France. We had 2 large pine trees in the back garden of our hovel, and watched the descent and procession in the first year. By year 2 the pine trees had been despatched to our neighbour's woodstove [ours has a warning against using resinous wood] and 'Goodbye. caterpillars]. Still have the damn great orange Spanish caterpillars, though ...

Steve
 
marchie said:
They are a problem in France. We had 2 large pine trees in the back garden of our hovel, and watched the descent and procession in the first year. By year 2 the pine trees had been despatched to our neighbour's woodstove [ours has a warning against using resinous wood] and 'Goodbye. caterpillars]. Still have the damn great orange Spanish caterpillars, though ...

Steve
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Are they big and round and have navels?🤔🤪
 
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