catapillars
I might be able to get my daughter to post a pic later, but this is getting serious, we have a shrub, not sure what it is, over run by striped green,yellow,black catapillars about an inch long, but they are in thick webs a bit like spider webs,there are a mass in each web, found a web this morning full of tiny baclk eggs. They are coming from a neighbours shrub again dont know aht it is, no point in taking a pic they have shredded it, no leaves left, but now they are moving onto our garden, any ideas would be great, and solutions.
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I can sympathise with the grief of having a crop or display destroyed when you've been nurturing it for weeks or months. But I can't bring myself to kill caterpillars. It would be like inviting my friends to dinner then killing their children.
Especially since it was reported on Springwatch this week that flying insects remember their former lives as larvae. Image being the one that escaped the massacre and survived to adulthood: "You can plant all the buddleia you like, I'm not staying in the garden where my brothers and sisters were murdered."
@WonkyWomble pointing to her ‘butterfly farm’ ... ie her nasturtiums being devoured by caterpillars 🐛 a very long time ago.
Sorry, I know that’s no consolation when your fig tree is being ravaged ... but it makes me smile 😊
Visiting my mother in Cambridge a few years back I went to view the row of ornamental cherry trees on Jesus Green which had been completely stripped by these caterpillars. It was a very impressive, if rather eerie, sight.