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| | Snailcase Bagworm - A Potential New Pest for Iowa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | Snailcase Bagworm - A Potential New Pest for Iowa |
 | | A new and interesting (some might say, "weird") exotic insect was introduced by accident into the USA from Europe in the 1940s and is now known to occur in parts of New York, Pennsylvania, the Pacific coastal states, Colorado, Michigan, Nevada, Utah, Idaho and as of this summer, Indiana. |
 | | Snailcase bagworm (Apterona helix) caterpillars feed on the foliage from a wide variety of ornamental plants, crops and Christmas trees. |
| www.ipm.iastate.edu /ipm/hortnews/2004/1-16-2004/bagworm.html (136 words) |
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