Something has been happening up in the trees around my yard every year that bothers me. I look outside my window one breezy morning in early summer, and I notice small white things falling off the trees all over the yard.

I've inspected the ones on my trampoline (where they're easy to see, because the tramp's black) and I have found them to be poor little insects of many types, some dead, others feebly crawling about, with many soft white threads bursting out of their abdomen.

I'm guessing that it is some sort of predatory fungus that eats the bug's insides, but I'm not sure. Can anybody help me identify what is causing this wanton slaughter?

10"Really needs to hose off his trampoline. Yuck"Kan