Pests Everywhere!

Even though it has been a beautiful spring (see last post), it has been a very destructive one.  No, not the weather.  Bugs!!  Nearly all my flowers and trees are inundated with leaf-eating, needle-destroying caterpillars and/or worms.  They are everywhere!  My evergreen plant in the front has HUNDREDS of caterpillars on it.  This happened a year or two ago as well.  I looked up what kinds of caterpillars eat evergreens and found the most common ones are the larvae of the sawfly (never heard of it, let alone seen one??) or the gypsy moth.  Looked both up and none of the pictures shown looks like what's on my evergreen??

Here's what my evergreen is supposed to look like.

Here's what it looks like now.

In that first picture you don't notice there's anything wrong, but if you look closer, this is what you see!

And here's what some of my other plants look like.  The leaves on my big tree have holes where they've been eaten.

Some leaves have this 'thing' on them that look like something's going to hatch any minute.

There are little worms hanging from threads everywhere.  Here's all that's left of my azalea.

And the hostas in the backyard have little brown specks like dirt on their leaves.

Even the rhododendrons have chunks taken out of their leaves, even though they are blooming beautifully.

I sprayed the eco-friendly spray on the evergreen a few days ago, but it didn't seem to do anything.  Got a 3-in-one spray today and sprayed EVERYTHING.  Will see if that helps.  In the meantime, at least so far the columbine are going great guns and don't seem to have bugs on them (knock on wood).

Will keep you posted.