Sebastian Schuchler

They get everywhere.

So it feels that they just suck everything out in one go.

And then the other way is almost burning them off trees.

with uh with those uh hot blow torches and you can see them kind of melting off the tree but like i said the the park inspector who i was talking to down there he said there's nothing there's nothing we can do we can just manage what we can i can't clear 2 000 trees and often you know it's not just one nest in one of these trees there he was telling me that last weekend

They tried to clear 20, but they actually only managed to do one because one particular tree had 800 nests in.

It is.

It is, but this year it's particularly bad.

And given the warmer spring that we had here, it's become a little more pervasive.

What's interesting is that it's really bad here in Berlin, opposed to other parts of Germany, where it is still a problem, but the sort of epicentre of it is here.

And one of the key...

expert who monitors this in conservation he's basically attributes all of this to climate change and as they've migrated from the south northwards they've settled here and it's not as bad the further north you go in Germany or even further up from that in Scandinavia but I've been inundated with messages

from Instagram, people telling me that they see them everywhere.

People from the UK have had people from Ireland, France, Poland, all around.

They are everywhere.

And I don't think there is that much awareness to them.

But this is a very specific period of time, right?

Because we all know about caterpillars.

What happens to them afterwards?

They then become moss, where they then become less poisonous and less toxic.

So we're in a very