This cartoon, from today’s Dutch Metro daily, is by René Lensink.
The caption says, translated: number of oak processionary caterpillars tripled.
In the cartoon, a young great tit says to its mother: Mum, I don’t want these foul caterpillars! I prefer a fat fast food snack!
Great tits are one of few bird species eating caterpillars of oak processionary moths; which can be a nuisance in the Netherlands and elsewhere.
Today in the Netherlands, primary schools have been closed and hockey matches postponed because of oak processionary caterpillar trouble.
To be 100% biologically corect, the young great tit‘s belly in the cartoon should have been a paler yellow than the adult’s.
Great tits, blue tits, bats, parasitic wasps, other predators help against oak processionary caterpillars: here.
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It is more then just a nuisance this year. It has become a epidemy. Almost every oakt hree is infested. There are a lot of oak threes around here.
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