Garden Pests and Diseases: Problem with butterfly caterpillars, 1 by Dinu
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Subject: Problem with butterfly caterpillars
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Dinu wrote: Evening, leaves are fine. Morning leaves are like these, most of them on top. This is my tabernaemontana plant. There will be a greeinsh little caterpillar inside this. They stick the ends of the leaves like this to fold it and make a shelter while it eats the leaf from inside without being noticed by predators. It's a great problem as it spoils most of the leaves but it luckily comes for a few days soon after the rainy days around this time of the year, every year. I don't look for any remedy as of now as they tend to get in control themselves. and I allow it to go on as one gardener told that it was uncontrolable. Any such problems faced by others here on DG? And this one prefers only the Tabernaemontana plant!! So selective. Dinu |