Bagworm

Scientific name: Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformis (Haworth)
(Lepidoptera: Psychidae)

Facts: Bagworms are brownish, rather fat-bodied worms which live within tough silken bags. The bags, when full grown, are up to 2 inches long and hang from leaves and twigs of evergreens and oaks which they attack.

Click here to see eggs within bags. (University of Kentucky, College of Agriculture)

Above photo credit:   Bastiaan (Bart) Drees, Extension Entomology, Texas A&M University