We have a giant Cape Lilac Tree bordering ours and the neighbors property. It had a huge canopy of lush green leaves and berries and it provided our car with a lot of shade on the lower part of the driveway. Then suddenly, one day ... and i kid you not - it happened overnight - the tree was BARE! Naked, from the trunk up! It appeared to have been munched on and devoured by something surely sinister ... but on closer inspection, we see millions, yes millions of hairy caterpillas (I am quite sure they have a proper name like Hairus Horribilus Caterpillus!) have voraciously annihilated (not to be too dramatic here) every single leaf on that tree!
No more shade and a rather denuded looking Cape Lilac!
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