If you're in the northeast, take a look at your evergreens

[spinbaby]

I’ve previously posted about my bagworm-infested dwarf spruce. Picking the “bags” out of the tree has been an ongoing project and I hope to save the tree even though it looks like hell now. I’ve since noticed a great many infected dying evergreens in my area—western Pennsylvania. I’ve also heard from friends in the Columbus Ohio area and western Virginia that they also have issues with dying evergreens from apparent bagworm infestations. Maybe this warm, wet summer is encouraging them, I don’t know. In any case, take a look at your evergreens for little pointy clumps of dead pine needles that resemble pine cones. If you find them, you have bagworms.