Caterpillars anyone?

[ston-loc]

Haha, so while harvesting the "early flowered buds" off my GDP, I found it annihilated by a lone caterpillar. Few days ago found this guy on my OG kush going to town. My oldest is all into bugs and has a little bug catcher kit, so instead of squashing this one, thought she'd enjoy it. Along with me watching a stoned caterpillar. Tossed a couple random leaves in a couple days ago, today first I've looked in there and apparently didn't like those and was almost dead. Thought I'd throw it a bone and tossed a little early bud that was eaten off by the TWO I found on OG and Lemon today. Little bugger went to town! Came out like 10 mins later and caterpillar was couch locked like a mofo! :rofl: Frozen, not moving, tapped the container and it literally looked up, like, "huh? what's going on?" hahahaha
Well aside from that comedy, any preventative measures to keep these little *******s off the plants? Thanks
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[mjrivers]

No idea how to keep them off someone else will have to chime in but that is fricken hilarious:rofl:

 

[Sol]

Oh boy, this is all wrong. Feeding the enemy!? Gotta check the rules of engagement but i'm sure the standard operating proceedure with a caterpiller is to give em' the squeeze,...or squish, whichever, or the non-voilent response of just pickin em off and put them outside somewhere else. I bet that dog would crunch them buggers right down. One bite. :ciao:
O.K i was just foolin, sorry bout your piller' prob, i'm not certain but i remember something about spreading some gritty substance, like glass powder ( really fine broken glass) or something like that. Anyhow if you make a circle around your plant , maybe a 3-4 inch wide 'ribbon' of broken glass powder ,in a circle . Right in the dirt or in a pot should work the same. Theoretically , the caterpiller crawls across this grit and it cuts him up abit ,they wiont cross it but go the other way.(unless he crawls over on a leaf) in which case i would call for artillery!Air support!:chuck:

 

[Wetdog]

Get something with BT in it. BT=Bacillus Thuringensis (sp?). It's a natural bacillus than only affects caterpillars.

Thuricide, Dipel, Sevin (IIRC) and other products contain it. Lowes, HD, or any garden shop.

The sharp stuff on the ground doesn't do anything, since the moths lay eggs on the leaves/stems.

Wet

 

[ston-loc]

Is that to kill them? Or prevent them? Because there aren't a lot of them. Like I said, only seen 5 of them over the last month. Plus I'm in flower, so I don't want to spray all the buds.

 

[Budders Keeper]

You won't see the tiny ones til they eat there way out of your bud from the inside. For me, they always show up when it's too late for poison, about mid flower. I tried to keep up by picking them off last year but ended up scrapping it. This year I'm using a bug zapper a few feet from plants and the moths are attracted to the zapper and haven't made it to the plants......yet. Good luck, I hate pillars more than mites.

 

[ston-loc]

Yeah, every spot I've found them on has had damage. Luckily not a ton. The plants are hitting week 5 of flower right now. They are outdoor obviously, and pretty big, so the minimal damage isnt a wash on the whole grow. Just have to keep up on my daily investigating.

 

[Wetdog]

Is that to kill them? Or prevent them? Because there aren't a lot of them. Like I said, only seen 5 of them over the last month. Plus I'm in flower, so I don't want to spray all the buds.

It will kill them, they starve to death. They ingest it and it locks up their gut.

Totally harmless to anything but caterpillars. I use it big time on my tomato plants for hornworms.

Bud worms will ruin your crop and you won't even see them till the damage is done, as was said, when they eat their way out of the bud.

Wet

 

[Sol]

Get something with BT in it. BT=Bacillus Thuringensis (sp?). It's a natural bacillus than only affects caterpillars.

Thuricide, Dipel, Sevin (IIRC) and other products contain it. Lowes, HD, or any garden shop.

The sharp stuff on the ground doesn't do anything, since the moths lay eggs on the leaves/stems.

Wet

Thanks wetdog i did'nt know that. Maybe it was for tomatoes ,that that works for .lol For the record i was'nt professing that i was knowlegeable on the subject , it was just a suggestion.

 

[Wetdog]

Thanks wetdog i did'nt know that. Maybe it was for tomatoes ,that that works for .lol For the record i was'nt professing that i was knowlegeable on the subject , it was just a suggestion.

It works, just not very well against 'pillers, since a lot of the time they start up in the plant from eggs.

But DE is good stuff, no doubt.

Wet

 

[ston-loc]

Wet, so am I reading you right? Spray the plant down with that stuff? Buds too? Everything I've read says not to spray buds directly with anything. Just trying to figure out what you are saying here.

 

[orangesunshine]

hand pick the *******s---

 

[Wetdog]

Wet, so am I reading you right? Spray the plant down with that stuff? Buds too? Everything I've read says not to spray buds directly with anything. Just trying to figure out what you are saying here.

Well, they have to ingest (eat) the stuff for it to work. If they are coming out and noshing on the leaves, just spraying the leaves will work. If they are in the buds and just eating there .........

My wife and I have eaten this stuff more than a few times, mainly from eating tomatoes right off the vine, over a period of years and it simply has no effect on people.

If you have to spray the buds, do it early in the morning so they dry out. You don't need mold on top of worms.

Wet