Garden Pests and Diseases: Caterpillar/larvae devouring miniature petunias, 1 by Awwshucks
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Subject: Caterpillar/larvae devouring miniature petunias
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Awwshucks wrote: These critters devoured about 1/3 of the miniature petunias in my daughter's hanging basket. We were wondering if anyone knew what kind of larvae they are? Butterfly or something else? They certainly were voracious leaving very little of the flowers they attacked! She ended up handpicking them and tossing them into the jasmine plant, and eventually got rid of them without using pesticides or BT. |