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Moth web?
59.6194, 17.0586
Field Notes
Description:
This is one of the most odd things I'we ever seen in Sweden. This / these trees is covered, from root to top with a net. (Pic. no. 5 is showing one of the nests, about 2,5 meters up in the trees)
Habitat:
I'm not very good at trees, but the spotting was in woodlands with mixed types of trees. Unf. I think that the ID of the tree is the key to Identify the species.
Notes:
All the leaves were eaten except at the very top of the tree. My guess is that it is some type of moth larva. All infested trees were of the same kind.
Some local information on any conceivable species of moth larvae that live in colonies in trees and shrubs, where they surround themselves with a web-like net; Plutella maculipennis, Tinea pellionella, Trichophaga tapetzella, Sitotroga cerealella and Yponomeuta evonymellus.
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