# Don't plug your Xmas tree into your network! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [December 9, 2015, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-plug-your-xmas-tree-into-your-network/739906 "2015-12-09T04:09:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-plug-your-xmas-tree-into-your-network/739906/1 "2015-12-09T04:09:31Z")
It has webworms! > [@Cecil Adams](#): > > That 179-page USDA manual. True, it speaks in frank terms of the many insects, fungi, worms, and other horrors that can invade Christmas trees. There are aphids, spiders, spider mites, weevils, bark beetles, bagworms, budworms, and **webworms** , not to mention those scale insects. The gypsy moth and its cousins have plagued Christmas trees for more than a hundred years. [Should I worry about bugs in my Christmas tree?](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3028/should-i-worry-about-bugs-in-my-christmas-tree) ---
**Author:** ![qazwart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/5fc32e/32.png) [@qazwart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/qazwart)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-plug-your-xmas-tree-into-your-network/739906/2 "2015-12-09T16:48:25Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > It has webworms! Maybe that’s what’s [slowing down your network.](http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2006/12/8392/) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-plug-your-xmas-tree-into-your-network/739906/3 "2015-12-09T17:05:53Z")
Well, the Web does have spiders crawling it. 🙂