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Post by Laaz on Jul 2, 2019 19:36:05 GMT -5
And another pest that will devour new growth quickly.  |
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Post by david on Jul 3, 2019 19:34:17 GMT -5
Yes indeed. Bird shit caterpillar....Spinosid and Malithion.......
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Yorgos
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Houston, TX near NRG Stadium USDA Zone 9a
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Post by Yorgos on Jul 15, 2019 20:22:33 GMT -5
It was this beautiful creature that had me plant my first citrus back in high school. While I get a few every year damage is diminimus. Usually wasps take them out so I neve have to spray. More issues with CLM and mites than Papilio Cresphontes.
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Post by david on Jul 15, 2019 21:02:37 GMT -5
End of May and June these things will strip new growth. Sometimes I find 40 or 50 eggs. I spray, hand pick and crush. I dont have wasp to help me.
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Post by david on Jul 15, 2019 21:11:50 GMT -5
Sometimes you have to give Mother Nature a hand.😐
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Post by Hershell on Jul 16, 2019 5:46:26 GMT -5
I never remove them from my trees however if I see them on a small tree I try to move them to a large tree where they do little damage.
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Post by Laaz on Jul 16, 2019 6:15:55 GMT -5
Squish!!!
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toofarnorth
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West Central Ga. USA. Z8a
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Post by toofarnorth on Jul 16, 2019 7:12:52 GMT -5
Sometimes you have to give Mother Nature a hand.😐 Or a foot  Lol. I do try to move them to another plant if possible, but this year I caught her laying her eggs and followed her around and plucked them off. TFN |
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Post by david on Jul 16, 2019 7:44:12 GMT -5
You can check each day if you have a small stand of trees. Watch for the big mostly black and the big yellow butterflies. They are fast and they will hit each new growth an drop a bunch of eggs. Hardened leaves are not their preference. They love newely forced buds.
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Post by david on Jul 16, 2019 7:52:55 GMT -5
I have a homemade pestolator in each grove. Its an old concrete bird bath. Has a bottle of charcoal starter in it and a few lumps of charcoal. As I make my rounds each day I clip dead wood, leaf miner damage, caterpillars and any varmits I find. On the way out I toss them into the pestolater, squirt a little fluid on them and set them ablaze. Keeps the grove clean of wood pest can hide in and the end of the existing pest. Perhaps its a mind trick......knowing the pest are burning in hell🤔.
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toofarnorth
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West Central Ga. USA. Z8a
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Post by toofarnorth on Jul 16, 2019 7:58:41 GMT -5
I love it...I gotta get or make me one!!! LMAO  TFN |
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Lol. I do try to move them to another plant if possible, but this year I caught her laying her eggs and followed her around and plucked them off.