Spider Moths Provide Bare Trees - What Garden Owners Need to Know

In Fulda in Hesse, bald trees and shrubs are covered by dense spiders. Private gardeners also complain about it. It is not an oak process spinner or Buchsbaumzünsler infestation.

In parts of the Fuldaer Stadtgebiet (among others in the area Wirgarten, Uferweg and Stadion) there is currently an accumulation of a special natural phenomenon: conspicuously bald trees and shrubs, which are partly completely covered by dense, white spiders. This is an increased infestation by various types of the so-called spider moths (Yponomeutidae). The animals lead to temporary damage to trees, but are harmless to humans. The Office of Gre…