Bagworm nest hanging from boysenberry vines

 These are boysenberry vines in front of my house that have borne fruit every June. And their vines have grown over the fence.　Actually, I bought the seedling on Kurahashi Island in the Seto Inland Sea in Hiroshima Prefecture about 10 years ago. At that time, its cultivation was popular on the island. In Shiga Prefecture, in Adogawa Town, Takashima City, farmers cultivate this berry as Ado-berry, named after its location, to make the berry a local specialty.

As the fruit ripens, it turns a deep purple.  Boysenberry gets bad easily after harvesting, so the fresh fruits are hardly distributed in the market. The ripe fruit tastes best when simply washed and eaten as is. 

When too many boysenberries have been harvested and I can't eat them all, I always freeze them in a small portion. My favorite recipe is to mix the semi-thawed boysenberries with yogurt.

I found a bagworm nest hanging from a boysenberry vine. Looking carefully, I noticed many nests here and there.　

The bagworms have cut slender leaf stalks to almost the same length and arranged them neatly to make its nest.　It's a skillful worm, isn't it? 　　

This is another nest. Actually, bagworm larvae are troublesome pests that feed on boysenberry leaves and sometimes flowers.　

A bagworm has a very specific ecology, for example only male worms can change into an adult moth. If you're interested, please refer to Wikipedia or related web site for details.

I'm sorry if I may be mistaken but, the bagworm whose head appeared partly from the nest maybe a female. 

As a matter of fact, I took these pictures last June. 

I'm sorry to stick to the bagworms. By the way, in early March of this year, I happened to notice an old nest that seemed to have been there since last year, but apparently I hadn't noticed it until now.

I think the bagworms have already changed into moths and flyed elsewhere within the last year. 

 I think that the nest was originally attached to a living vine, but the vine had died in the winter, causing the nest to almost peel off. The bagworm's nest appears to be barely suspended by a thin layer of the threads that the worm spinned by itself, and it looks like it is on the verge of falling.