No blooms! Caterpillar poop!
And this is how I dealt with all 20 that I pulled off my plants (and I'm not apologizing to PETA).
What's so disgusting is that all that green stuff came out of that one caterpillar. Eww.
Like Jack Sommersby pickin' off the hornworms...
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I picked budworms off my petunia plants tonight. Grrrr. And I know that there are more, because I've been reading about how to kill them (in an organic, non-toxic way [I know you'll appreciate that, Mel.]) and I'm pretty sure that as big as these were tonight, there are more to come. If I'd known that my holey blooms were because of budworms, I'd have been looking for those stinkers sooner than now. I have been noticing that some blooms had holes, and others were much smaller, and I just thought it was because I hadn't watered them for a couple of days and they didn't appreciate the 101* temps lately. But that's not the problem. I deadhead my plants every night when I get home. But tonight I noticed this:
And this is how I dealt with all 20 that I pulled off my plants (and I'm not apologizing to PETA).
What's so disgusting is that all that green stuff came out of that one caterpillar. Eww.
And this is how I dealt with all 20 that I pulled off my plants (and I'm not apologizing to PETA).
What's so disgusting is that all that green stuff came out of that one caterpillar. Eww.
Monday, June 29, 2009
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Gross. Makes me want to not look at my plants too closely.
Well that is non-toxic to you and it ensures that they won't come back.
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