After a spell of cold weather, today we were blessed with a sunny mild day. Perfect opportunity to finally get the remains a very large bag worm nest out of the top of an aspen — it came late in the summer, during a second wave of bag worms, and was too high and too hidden by leaves to get out of the tree.
First step was to lash the ladder to the tree —especially important with a thin rather flexible trunk. Next to the top of the ladder: the working end of a long range pruner.
Sun Mountain in the background
Could just reach it with the long range pruner fully extended
Seeing it close up explained why it had never fallen out of the tree on its own — the wall of the nest was so thick it probably would have remained in the tree for months.
Another View
All of the coming summer’s foliage is clearly visible — some of these fat buds are so advanced, the catkins are starting to show.
A sumac, also with nice buds
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