10 Pointer : Garden Pest problem.. 'silky bug'

Question

I have this parasite leeching everywhere on a tree of mine... it has a brown leaf-like wrapping... beneath it is a slimy bug covered in silk...

what can i do...

Answer 1

-Spray it off with a hose

-Pick it off by hand

-Use pesticide (not suggested)

-Put bird feeders there because bluejays/robins/sparows like to eat silkworms

Answer 2

Get a shop-vac and suck the thing off. Then put the bugs that you vacume off into soapy water. I don't like to use chemicals. So that is what I do.  

Answer 3

Spray with dishwashing soap that is diluted with water. It won't hurt anything and bugs hate it.

Answer 4

Set fire to the tree