The first time Carole Callon realized the danger of having oak processionary caterpillars in her garden was the day her son went through the mower, shirtless.
"After an hour, her back had doubled in size, was covered with caterpillar hair and her skin was all blistered and swollen," says this resident of Seine-et-Marne who at the time had four oak trees in her house. big field.
Hundred-year-old trees that she had to resolve to cut down as the cohabitation had become "hellish" with these larvae of butterflies with stinging and volatile hairs that colonized the trunk of her hardwoods each spring.
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