The first ten days of June have felt like a return of late winter: tons of rain, periodic gale winds, two blankets at night. The major summery thing has been the return of the defoliating caterpillars we had last Spring and the introduction of a new kind of defoliating caterpillar (forest tent) and the European winter moth.
Thus far, our trees haven't been damaged too much but there are parts of the Vineyard where all the leaves have been eaten and the area has a wintry look. The caterpillars have even attacked the Polly Hill Arboretum so badly that they have resorted to spraying for the first time.
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